#FIRST TIME DEV JOB SEARCH
I'm super excited to hear that a few of you have already gotten fulltime job opportunities and that a lot of you are in the interview process. I thought that I'd take a minute to share some of my thoughts on what you can do to skip some of the pitfalls that I encountered on my search. This advice is coming from someone who is just barely a few steps ahead of you in the process. So there is no pretension in what I'm say. Instead, this is more of a reflection on the misconceptions that I had when I graduated and started job hunting.
Some of this advice will not apply entirely to those of you coming from a coding background before devMountain. Also, hang with me till the end. At first it may not seem encouraging, but I promise it'll help and you'll be better prepared by the end of reading this.
I guess it should be said that this is just my personal opinion and doesn't reflect devMountain's opinion in any way.
So here we go...