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Rafael De Leon

Not everyone gets hired immediately after graduating. Took me a while to find my first job.
Here are some tips I can give.

Create a linkedin profile. - this will help recruiters find you.

Try working with recruiters. - This is how I've found most of my jobs. It might take a while to get offers, but at least you get interview and interview question experience. From here, you will have to find interview question tests only. I am sure you can find a github repo full of these depending on what you want to do. Example, github.com/h5bp/Front-end-Develope...

Network. - This is how I got my current job. This is probably one of the most influential since people who like working with you end up wanting to do so after they move on and vice versa.

Contribute to open source. - This falls in with networking. Find a project you like and help out. This gives you experience working with strangers and getting input about your code.

Good luck.