Ask HN: How to get a job when just starting out?

What is your background? Both educational and industry related work.

If you're a programmer, start hunting various projects on Github and send them pull requests with bugfixes/features

If you are a designer, start showing off your style on various portfolio-like sites (behance, dribbble, etc).

If you are something else, hunt for an internship to a company in your field.

I am a mechanical engineering undergrad!