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First, don't feel bad. I've seen a lot of smart people have a lot of trouble finding entry level jobs lately. Luckily you are in an industry with ample opportunity.

Next, be proactive. Apply to 10 companies a day. Just think about the numbers, your conversion rate, and sending out resumes. You won't know your conversion rate until you apply to a ton of jobs. With the background you said and lack of any real experience, 95% of companies are going to want to pass because they want someone who knows framework/language X and can hit the ground running. However, that leaves 5% that are willing to train interns or even full-time hires with 0 experience. The problem is that you can't really tell which are which type of company so you've got to send resumes to everyone. After sending out 100 resumes take a step back, evaluate your approach and success rate, then get back to it.

While you're sending out resumes, spend a small portion of your time reaching out to anyone you know in the industry (including your friends from school who just got jobs) and ask them to take a look at your resume.

There's really no shortage of tech companies you can apply to, especially if you're willing to relocate. Where are you located now?

One more tip: My friend who had next to no experience got a job at Google as a contractor through a 3rd party company. He gets very solid pay and access to all of Google's lux facilities/food and he didn't even have to do a technical interview. I think they do this because if you suck they can basically fire you anytime.

Good Luck!

[d3gamer]

> My friend who had next to no experience got a job at Google as a contractor through a 3rd party company. He gets very solid pay and access to all of Google's lux facilities/food and he didn't even have to do a technical interview. I think they do this because if you suck they can basically fire you anytime.

Yup. Not a lot of people know this, but a significant percentage of people at Google are contractors (red badges). One of my friends is currently working there as a contracted web developer. He said that while working there is awesome, the turnover in the contractor ranks is very high and there is not a lot of support for newbies. It is pretty much a sink-or-swim environment. Outside of "codelabs", there isn't much documentation of their internal tools so my friend has to constantly read the source code to figure out how to use something.