Getting my first developer job

I'm excited to announce that, I will be joining as a Junior Front-End Developer at The Souled Store. It is an e-commerce platform, where you can buy different brand merchandise and fashion products. And they are also expanding to retail outlets.

Job Hunting can be difficult

It is difficult, especially when you are searching for your first developer job. I found the job searching process to be time-consuming and hectic at times. I started my job search after I finished my final year exams, and it took me around 1-2 months. During that period, I applied to a lot of companies via emails, LinkedIn, and other job portals. I never heard back from most of the companies which can be frustrating at times. A couple of them led to face-to-face interviews and then even after having a great interview never heard back from them.

Skillset

We are in a time where anyone can learn programming from the internet. There are good resource to learn including many free and paid courses, documentation, blog posts, and other materials that helped me a lot.

I have a graduate degree in Bachelor of Science in Information Technology. I got started with web development from a college course, but it wasn't sufficient to build anything significant. But, then I found FreeCodeCamp, the curriculum is beginner-friendly, and one can start learning how to code. Wes Bos' javascript30 is a free course, and it got me interested in web development. I haven't completed the course, but it gave me the motivation to start making projects instead of just learning.

When I started applying for jobs, I had adequate knowledge about web fundamentals, which included HTML, CSS, and Javascript. And also some experience using React.js, Python, and Java.

Having a portfolio site helped since showcasing your projects where the employer can view your capability.

Resources.

Here are some of the resources I used for learning.

• FreeCodeCamp
• Javscript30
• React course
• Codecademy
  And a lot of documentation.