Ask HN: What advice would you give to new or upcoming grads?
Many are in the same boat as me looking for suggestions. I recently graduated a few months ago. Back then I was getting multiple opportunities to interview for companies. Unfortunately, I wasn't actively looking back then, but I am now.
The job market seems to be dry for early career folks. For example, senior engineers I know are still getting interviews and offers. But the story isn't the same for new grads.
Do you folks have any suggestions on what I should do. Here are my thoughts:
1. Keep applying for jobs and see what happens after one month
2. Get an MBA
3. Get my masters in AI or something else?
4. Get a law degree
5. Start my own startup
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 19.7 ms ] threadAllocate your time for job research and apply for multiple open positions that interest you.
Followup on job applications from the previous week where you haven't heard back.
Focus on a side-project: If you are interested in AI, you may try to learn some of the frameworks, review open source projects and perhaps contribute to them in terms of code/documentation/issues/Pull requests etc.,
Meet different people and build a (real) network. See if there are projects you could work on for them that helps you learn and build experience.
Talk about all of this in your job interviews.
Good luck.