Current barrier I'm facing... (Graduate next year and non stop looking for positions):

Position: Junior/Graduate Developer
Spec: Must have at least 1-2 years experience.

Fuck this.

Most of time it's just an artificial "barrier".
They will tell you, "Oh you are good, we really want to work with you but you have little experience and/or not enough title/paper/shit, so we have to pay you less...."

Don't be put away by that...
Or be. If the money is really that shit and/or the job not worth it

Anyway when you'll have a lot of experience and titles, they will tell you "Oh, you are too expensive, sorry"

No one cares about 1-2 years of experience. If you have a company and a good candidate applies with less experience than you specified, will you let him go? I wouldn't..

You just gotta get to know somebody

Lie. Lie through your teeth...

If you have personal projects to show you get a lot of ++ start being active on github and its proof of concept.