People going through the same thing, comrades.
Reach out to friends who have gone through this. Reach out to previous partners for encouragement and a pep talk. Try as hard as possible not to take it seriously, and schedule appointments with Jun.
How will you hold yourself accountable to your plans? (Ex: Attend Mod 5, meet with cohortmates, attend Kayt's coffee shop hours, etc.)
A few girls in my cohort have decided to get together at least once a week to job hunt together, and I've suggested even multiple days so we can still see eachother and hold eachother accountable. Also definitely attend all of the Mod 5 things and attend as many meetups as I can to network and build relationships in the community.
Slack is great, but I think in person meetings would be even more effective! We can line up meetings over Slack and go from there.
A job in Denver/Denver metro area/Golden/would travel to Boulder if it meant I could stay here. A job with: continuous learning, open communication, cross-department collaboration, collaborative working environment, intentional culture, internal mobility. Juniors can't be picky so I'll take what I can get, but it would be cool if the company cared about testing their code. I would consider a QA position, but I don't want to get stuck doing QA forever. I would also consider taking a position that is part dev, part project manager. I am now very excited about mobile development as well...ultimately, I am entirely too curious about too many things because I feel like a kid who has never been in a candy shop before and is so overwhelmed and amazed at the options/selection that I don't know where to start.
I've struggled. I started Mod 4 having chosen to give 100% to the curriculum but begun to get overwhelmed when I heard about classmates getting interviews. I started to try and balance the job hunt and the projects and realized I wasn't putting my best foot forward to either, and had to re-decide to commit to the curriculum and that I would dive into the job hunt full steam ahead after graduation. I am quite anal about sending perfect (ish) applications, and trying to crank them out while also build incredible projects made me not as proud of myself and anxiety ridden.
Technical and behavioral interviews, confidence. An extra set of eyes on cover letters. But mainly the interview practice.
The above calendar is subject to change depending on how I feel the scheduled outline is going. I am also attending Demo Comp with my cross-poll project (yay!) and would like to spend some time working on improving that as well so I have a project I am beyond proud to show employers. I am already proud of it, but it would be fantastic to increase the functionality even further.