That's compared with students applying for other graduate roles, eg business or finance, and with those who have just left school applying for technology apprenticeship roles. What's more, computer science graduates actually have the highest unemployment rate of all degree disciplines. * It's time to take action and turn yourself into your recruiters' ideal candidate. Narrow down what type of IT job you want There's a massive range of IT, technology and computing roles so first narrow down what you want to do. See the business sector overviews, 'Ten typical jobs graduates can do in IT' and 'What type of IT company and job is the best fit for me? ' for help deciding. The skills you need to improve depend on which job you're aiming for. Investigate technology employers' requirements Most employers are clear about their requirements. Check out the IT graduate job adverts here on TARGETjobs and employers' own websites for details. Get in touch If you've scrutinised a particular tech employer's website but still aren't sure how you can make yourself more appealing to them, get in touch well before you need to apply and ask.
Stories asked by an interviewer like: "Tell me about a time you had to do X, Y, Z and how did you do it? " or "Tell me about a time when someone did something and there was a conflict how did you handle it blablabla". No projects means no stories, no stories means you will not appear experienced to the interviewer. I did not have an internship under my bag, but I had tons of projects, an active github account, and people who benefited from my projects and could vouch for it. These stories are extremely difficult to make up on the spot, but easy once you have a few projects under your belt. The difference between my first round of interviews 1. 5 years ago and the second round 4 months ago was that I now had stories - like the time I spent 4 hours on some bug, or when I helped solve a problem in some clever way, or what the strengths and weaknesses of a language I used were... I'm rambling. But you get the idea. Where can I find those so-called "projects"? Asides from personal projects, take a look at Electrical, Mechanical, Computer Engineering departments.