* Find a area you want to live and contact recruiters there.<p>* Don&#x27;t be afraid to contact Google, Microsoft, or other large employers.<p>* Press the flesh: go to industry meetups, visit with people who are in the industry, work the old professor network, try to find alumni who might give your resume an extra look.  I can NOT stress this enough, by the way. Getting your face in front of someone who can hire you - or who knows someone who can hire you - is basically the best way to get hired.<p>* Get a job this year in college related to your degree.<p>* If you&#x27;re a coder, put up your favorite <i>non-class</i> codebase on github and have that link in your resume. My controversial opinion: portfolios are a <i>very strong signal</i> that the candidate is to be given at least a phone screen.<p>* Don&#x27;t take extra classes when you could be networking; applying for jobs; etc.