I have been applying via linkedin, company portal which show up on google search but somehow nothing is working out, cold dm, emails almost all eventually ending in radio silence. Not asking for some shortcut just that it all isn’t making sense.

  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    This advice won’t be helpful to you unfortunately, but if there are students reading, the answer as others have said is already being connected. A key way to make this happen is through research with faculty followed by (potentially) internships and then full time offers. If you just show up and kick ass every day for 3 to 5 years and even get a 4.0 GPA the market will still be very tough.

    Bonus points though which might help OP: anything you can do that narrows the pool helps you. For example, if you’re a white bread american dude maybe look for a job that requires getting a clearance, if you’re mandarin Chinese maybe look for something that requires some translation or speaking, etc. You may not be the best programmer or the best salesman, but you might be a top tier salesman for programming tools.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      by definition very few people get those connections and opportunities. how many student research jobs are there compared to majors? like 1 per 50 students?

      • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        2 days ago

        More than you would think. Most people don’t show up to ask to do research in my opinion. I got my first one by literally walking up to a Prof after class and saying “I like this. Do you know anyone who does research like this?”. He said “me”, gave me a test project, and I worked for him for like almost 20 years.

        I should say I also did this my freshman year (the year before the story above) and I got referred to a different guy in the department where I worked for a summer but it didn’t work out for either of us. Turns out I’m more engineer than physicist, but it was good knowledge.

        Edit: To be more direct about numbers, you’re right there’s not a spot for everybody or even half, but when I was in undergrad way less than that even went looking for research, they just did the job fair every year mostly and were students the rest of the time which was… not as reliable a strategy we will say.