{"id":55,"date":"2022-11-08T18:14:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/muthanna\/?p=55"},"modified":"2022-11-10T18:45:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T18:45:01","slug":"find-a-job-as-a-software-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/muthanna\/2022\/11\/08\/find-a-job-as-a-software-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"Find a job as a software developer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>finding a job can be a struggle. I&#8217;m have been applying to many jobs and have not yet landed on a job as a software developer. I started diving deep in this topic and found some interesting ideas that can be helpful to land on a job faster as a software developer. The tip here is to contribute to open sources projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">Why you should contribute to open sources projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Contributing to open sources projects can build your confidence and improve your skills. By contributing to open sources projects, you get to learn new things and receive feedback on your work. By adding contribution to open source in your resume, can make your resume stands out and get the job that you wanted. Github is a good place to find and contributes to open sources projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">Where to find open source projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many ways to find open sources projects. You can just google and search for the projects with your technology your&#8217;e interested in. Here is a link to open sources projects on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/topics\/open-source-project\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/topics\/open-source-project\">Github<\/a>; there are about 321 projects you can choose from <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-heading\">Start contributing to open source projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As you start contributing, try to find first timer issue. Here is list of issues(first timers issues)  <a href=\"https:\/\/goodfirstissues.com\/index.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/goodfirstissues.com\/index.html\">link<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>finding a job can be a struggle. I&#8217;m have been applying to many jobs and have not yet landed on a job as a software developer. I started diving deep in this topic and found some interesting ideas that can be helpful to land on a job faster as a software developer. The tip here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/muthanna\/2022\/11\/08\/find-a-job-as-a-software-developer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Find a job as a software developer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/muthanna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/muthanna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/muthanna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/muthanna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/muthanna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/muthanna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/muthanna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/muthanna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/muthanna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/muthanna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}