Hey guys I am looking for some career advice

I am currently a Bachelor's student in Melbourne, Australia and I am trying to source a placement (internship) but I have had no success in it

So if anyone could give me advice on how I could advance my career it would be great

P.S. I have also heard about the hidden job market here but I have no idea on how I could tap into that

In my opinion there are only two types of CS students, the professionals and the enthusiasts.

The profesionals get good grades and read the text books and that's it. The enthusiasts make things that interests them, learn new languages and libraries just because they are curious about them! A friend recently told me that she was switching from Mech. Eng to CS because she could learn CS by herself! I honestly wanted to have an opening so I could hire her on the spot!

What I'm trying to say is, the field is full of professionals, but hiring managers can smell those that not only know but are enthusiastic and passionate about what they know.

The practical way to show this is by going beyond what your curriculum requires you. Learn things that you want to learn! Build stuff! If it feels like work then switch and find something that you enjoy. Bachelor is the perfect time to find what in CS really calls your attention, and then make stuff!

Best luck dude!

Not sure about Australia and the IT job market there. Figure that out first.. how many job openings in what all companies exist in and around. LinkedIn for that. Next prepare.. basics. Websites like interviewbit and hackerearth can help you with that. You'll be required to code problems on these platforms. Do that diligently with a programming language of your choice. If there's none right now, just see what language do the companies prefer in their job openings. Be prepared for a struggle of at least a month (maybe 2). But you will get through. In the last leg of your preparation, you can start applying to job openings on LinkedIn. There are a lot of recruiters on the platform too. Look out for them and DM them. 1/4 tend to reply. There must be some other recruiting websites for Australia that you'll need to find out and start applying.

Once you have some experience, you can probably think of switching and finding the right fit for you if you don't like your first company. But getting the initial experience is a must.

^ btw, in case you are wondering, this will prepare you for backend developer job position.

Best of luck :-)

@sagar13 thanks

@benj thanks

Hey I’m in New Zealand. And I graduated about 3 years ago with a MSc degree.
I got really good grade, but couldn’t secure any of the interview in the first couple of months.
In my experience, don’t rush in. If you haven’t competed in any coding competitions, you have to show some good coding skills.
There’re some tips for interview:
1. Keep practicing code interview questions.
2. Read some brain teasers, HR like to ask probability, game theory related questions
3. Don’t include the language you just learned, eg: I use C# to build my AI project, but it has nothing to do with .Net project. Put them in your hobby section.
4. There’re lots of web related jobs, but you need learn react, node.js etc. and these take time.