{"id":12,"date":"2023-01-27T07:55:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T07:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codingwithchris\/?p=12"},"modified":"2023-01-27T07:55:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T07:55:55","slug":"capstone-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codingwithchris\/2023\/01\/27\/capstone-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Capstone and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the capstone course being my final course in the program, I am looking at what is beyond, which is the job landscape. With recent news of big layoffs in major tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, it can be a bit daunting to thinking of landing my first job. All I can do is try to best prepare myself for the application and job interview process which lies ahead. Some things I am currently or planning on working on include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Leetcode &#8211; Getting comfortable walking through problems and coding on a more daily basis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Revitalizing old projects &#8211; Going through portfolio projects from courses earlier in the program. Recently an advisor suggested looking at them through a new lens using something I&#8217;ve learned in a more recent course. For instance, taking an old project that was hosted locally and now hosting it in the cloud or taking a web app and turning it into a mobile app<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Own a project &#8211; This capstone project is a great example of a project that I can really own some of the direction and work through problems and obstacles along the way that will give me valuable experience and maybe some talking points during interviews<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Resume workshop &#8211; Using available advising through the career center to help vitalize my resume and identify areas I can strengthen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are like me and getting near the start of your new career, then I wish you (and myself) luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the capstone course being my final course in the program, I am looking at what is beyond, which is the job landscape. With recent news of big layoffs in major tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, it can be a bit daunting to thinking of landing my first job. All I can do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codingwithchris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codingwithchris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codingwithchris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codingwithchris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codingwithchris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codingwithchris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codingwithchris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codingwithchris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codingwithchris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/codingwithchris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}