{"id":8,"date":"2022-10-29T04:47:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T04:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/nathantoit\/?p=8"},"modified":"2022-10-29T04:47:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T04:47:25","slug":"my-job-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/nathantoit\/2022\/10\/29\/my-job-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"My Job Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My resume is finally to a point where I feel I can start firing off job applications. So begins my long hunt for a job.<br><br>It&#8217;s exciting to finally take that first step and try to get my foot in the door somewhere while also being extremely intimidating. I couldn&#8217;t fit in an internship during my time at OSU, so the hunt will be long and probably feel impossible at times, but I will keep going until I get <em>something<\/em>. Hopefully, the retooled portfolio projects I&#8217;ve made during my time as a student at OSU will help show off the talents I have and show that I have the potential to grow from a junior dev position.<br><br>From here on out I need to really challenge myself to attempt multiple leetcode problems every day. I found a website &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/neetcode.io\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/neetcode.io\/\">https:\/\/neetcode.io\/<\/a> &#8211; that will help me do just that and help me focus on the most important concepts. <br><br>One of the hardest things about my job search will be focusing on applying and sharpening my interviewing skills. The search will become my full-time job. I will have to force myself to work on myself and apply as if it were my job. In this ultra-competitive environment for entry-level software dev positions, I can&#8217;t afford to slack off.<br><br>Please, wish me luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My resume is finally to a point where I feel I can start firing off job applications. So begins my long hunt for a job. It&#8217;s exciting to finally take that first step and try to get my foot in the door somewhere while also being extremely intimidating. I couldn&#8217;t fit in an internship during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12743,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/nathantoit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/nathantoit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/nathantoit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/nathantoit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/nathantoit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/nathantoit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/nathantoit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/nathantoit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/nathantoit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/nathantoit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}