[a-saleh]

The complain of your interviewees about `no professional experience` hits home. Try to look at your past experience and list anything that would translate as professional experience.

In my case, having a root account on a few public-facing web servers translated to "Linux sysadmin, 3y experience", helping out a classmate with his freelancing project "C++ and Qt framework, 1y experience", e.t.c.

Second, if you want to continue in your studies, you should be able to get a paid internship in some local corporation. It is then easier to transition to full employment with one leg in the door already. That is how I got to company I work for now :)

Or you might go even further into academia, i.e. if you enjoyed writing your thesis, your advisor might help you with a teaching-assistant job, or a faculty sysadmin job and some universities even have their own developer departments (mine had one developing their university information system). Or maybe even a research fellowship.

And last, ask your classmates.

Some of them might be freelancing, and you might be able to get client/work from them (i.e. a friend of mine had a a mobile-app shop, and once he needed to finish one more app in the pipeline he had people for, and thats how I paid for half of my wedding :-)

Some of them might already be working, and if they remember you as a guy they would like to work with, you might be able to get a round or two of interviews head-start :-)

Ok, I think I might start with my friends/classmates first :-) That is how I got to the "Linux sysadmin, 3y experience" anyway :)

Good luck!

[dwgdev]

Hi,

Since you have mentioned freelance, I do actually have an account at Upwork. But I did not complete my full application yet. I just keep thinking, I do not have an actual job, and I have not delivered a project. Summing up these two issues, how possibly people would "believe" me? There are so many high profiles in there.. what are the chances I might be asked to do a job? I am considering to be a freelancer after I get an actual jobs, and have a couple years of experience to proof I can do it.

[a-saleh]

In my case, freelance always was through a friend-of-a-friend. And those freelance jobs were nothing major.

For example, looking at your example project, thing that I did as a work for hire seemed to have been simpler.

There was an existing android app showing on 3 screens weather in Dubai or Abudabi (I don't really remember anymore) and I were to write the IOS port.

The reason why the guy chose me, even though I neither had an actual job, nor delivered a project was that he knew me personally for a really long time :-)

So, if I were in your shoes, I would literally be emailing classmates I liked working on projects during school and asking them for work, because that is what I did and it worked out well for me :-)