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It’s another new grad issue I’m afraid, but I’ll spare you the sob story and say It clearly. I’m a 4th year CS student in my final term. I’ll be done in April, and have my degree conferred and ready to go at the June convocation. The classic story, you know I was an utter failure in finding internships. I didn’t properly study what it took to be successful in CS)I believed studying hard mattered) so co-op application opportunity in first year past and went, and I failed to secure them independently. So no relevant tech experience, which sucks since even junior and new grad roles want it now. I’ve recently locked in hard. Updated my resume, again using what I’ve learned, applied with an even greater cadence and effort level, built out a portfolio)my personal favourite is an 18+ table database, WIP UI coming soon). But it seems I’m just too late to the party. It’s end of March now and the roles I’m fit for have dried up. It can be difficult to find even a couple of roles per day I’m qualified for to apply to. It doesn’t help that a lot of the listings have a laundry list of niche and advanced tool and framework requirements that vary too wildly to learn them all. Whatever I’m doing seems to be working better as I actually got moved to the next step a handful of items instead of just getting rejected, but I fear it’s too late now and I burned peak hiring time. For expectation setting: I do not care about(or even want) big tech, super fancy roles, etc. just any actual tech job anywhere and I’ll be a happy man. If it IS too late, what’s the path forward here? I can’t imagine I’ll have something secured BEFORE grad at this point. The thought of just sitting around in a part time job just waiting for the market to bounce back in some way is… disturbing. The ensuing depressing and tiredness would make it hard to work on major projects, making me an even worse applicant over time. I got into a master’s degree program, but for reasons this post is already getting too long to talk about in depth , it’s not super useful. Thank you for your input, and have a lovely day