I graduated with a CS degree, May 2015. No one in my entire family tree has ever graduated high school, so I&#x27;ve never had any encouragement or mentoring for CS. I ended up in a very average university: is not in top 100 of USNews. It&#x27;s top 20 in Northeast.<p>In the school&#x27;s job fairs, we get only local, unknown companies (like 3 of them). Problem is I don&#x27;t live locally there, and they only hire locals and don&#x27;t assist with relocation. I&#x27;ve applied elsewhere, but yeah... I&#x27;m unemployed after 5 months.<p>I&#x27;ve had my resume checked by multiple sources, and no one&#x27;s had any problem with it. My non-school projects consist of websites. They&#x27;re not exciting with no &quot;xTreme-Framework-of-the-month&quot;, but I&#x27;m working on updating and integrating new features. I&#x27;ve also volunteered my programming skills and worked for an unpaid internship. I also have some related extracurricular.<p>Clarification: I have received many phone calls from unknown companies; zero on-sites. The problem is I can&#x27;t get past the phone calls since they always ask me exclusive, tricky questions about their stack. I never get any algorithm or data structure questions like I hear in other threads.<p>My big problem is since no one in my family has an education and sees the CS degree as &quot;a worthless piece of paper&quot;, they don&#x27;t want my sister to go to university.<p>So, I really don&#x27;t know how to find a job. I&#x27;ve tried the blackhole websites (e.g., dice.com); multiple 3rd party recruiters; school&#x27;s job board (at this second, literally only has one position posted for software engineer); my neighbors and family&#x27;s friends. No luck.
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