[a-saleh]

Do you have friends that work for companies she would like to work at? I.e. at place where I work we have incentives for seeking out new coleagues. The best thing about this, that when your friend tells his manager something like "You know how we have rack open for 4 months? I think I know a person." you usually bypass the HR guy skimming through 100 aplications and maybe thinking "C++ & Matlab? Who needs that?" or something like that.

If you have no friends that would help you with this, I would suggest going to local conferences and talking to speakers. On local linux group meeting, I had a conversation that literary went

me: "Hey, awesome presentation, do you think I could get your slides?"

speaker: "I don't think I want to hang them over, I might have divulged too much about our company internals so I don't really want to have it on the internet."

me: "That is a pity, good I was taking notes :-)"

speaker: "Well, if you liked it, you might want to work for us, we have a junior position open."

(Disclaimer, I was 22, still doing my masters at the time, your conversation might be different)