How to find your first front-end job?

Question

Career in IT

It seems that the answer is banal, but there are problems with the move. The region is overloaded with offices of various directions, but the competition among front-ends is the most at times. Wherever you come, there are 2-5 people in line with me for an interview. I have a secondary special, I have experience in freelancing. I signed up for Djinni and have been stuck since 3-4 months. It is possible that my knowledge is still insufficient. But every day I open vacancies for juniors on several sites, send them a resume, look at the requirements, and immediately practice on them. Various bases, JS scripts, I rivet some kind of landing pages, I constantly practice Grid/Gulp.
I just don't understand what else is missing. Perhaps it is worth getting some other certificate in order to raise yourself in the ranking higher? Tell me where and how to become higher than the paper of colleges, in addition to the above.

Answer 1

The competition does not sourly raises the requirements. If for the same price I can get not just a layout designer, but also a partial backing capable of stretching my layout, the choice is obvious. Or, in addition to layout, candidates also offer wui or react ... also a bonus. But, most likely, there are 3 problematic points:
1 you do not know how to sell yourself and the recruiter cannot appreciate that you are cooler than others. For example clamped, you speak not confidently. He did not mention what he did, but simply listed the names of technologies. To know the words does not mean to own. Well, maybe you go to interviews unshaven, casually dressed, with an erokesis half a meter long, or you just have an unpleasant smell. Even if you are a cool developer, the HR may not pass your resume to the tech lead, because it seemed to her that the candidate did not wash himself or smelled of onions. And you work in the same office. They won't tell you this directly, but you need to take this into account.
2 Is there a github repository? Perhaps you are doing something no more complicated than hello world and it is difficult to understand whether you own it or not. Maybe you apply your knowledge sideways. Maybe your git says worse about you than you say. This is an important point. I always look at what a person writes, even in pet projects. I don't expect super code there. I know there will be dirt. But I can see by the commits and the style of the code what kind of developer I am. In general, you can learn a lot more from the git than beginners expect.
3 Offices in which interviews are on the conveyor are galleys. They are searching blindly. You are no different from others. It’s hard for a front to get featured in open source, but you can get featured in the community. Find a discord, telegram or other layout community and start chatting there. Ask questions, answer questions. You will somehow interact with the cooler guys in the subject, and sometimes they need colleagues in the team. Often, they start looking for candidates for a vacancy in their favorite chat, among the already familiar contingent, and only then go to hh.

Answer 2

The beauty of remote work is that it is not limited by "region". Ukraine itself is a very saturated IT market, it is useless to catch something there. Learn English, promote yourself to the West. And of course, you need to create your own website with a portfolio, upgrade your profile on Github, Linkedin. And there you see the employer himself there.

Answer 3

I just don't understand what else is missing

- Your own completed projects are missing. Do 3-5 of your projects, put them in your portfolio, and immediately overtake all these lazy people at the interview.
You can still make landingos for people for free, you will get real reviews, too +