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About to be a fresh grad. What on EARTH do I do?

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Hi all, I am trying to find a job in CS, however, as you very well know a lot of jobs turn people down or don't hire because they aren't actually hiring and are only advertising they are for tax cut b

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Hi all, I am trying to find a job in CS, however, as you very well know a lot of jobs turn people down or don't hire because they aren't actually hiring and are only advertising they are for tax cut benefits. The jobs that are actually hiring are SUPER competitive, and from what I've seen, hire people who have years of experience over new grads, even for "Internship" roles. I've applied to about 500 jobs now and only 12 of them even bothered to get back to me, 2 lead to interviews, 1 ghosted after that, one denied. A lot of people are suggesting I go to "Career fairs" but when I look into it, it's \- A) Not in Computer Science \- B) Not hiring for internships/looking for new grads \- C) Are hiring for new grads, but when asking for experience I can't provide any \- D) Never get back to me via email or number. What I have seen in Career fairs \- A) Looking for manual labour \- B) Not actually a job, just advertising their product??? \- C) Non-CS related jobs \- D) People specifically looking for upper management roles. Yes, I did look into career fairs dedicated to interns/new grads, even for CS related jobs, but the closest ones usually are 4 hours away. Minimum. LinkedIn is an utter joke, applying directly to the website usually yields no reply, and I just.... Don't know what direction to even go in.
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