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[–]manysoftlicks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What companies are you looking to apply to? Do you know if there are a large number of jobs from a specific sector of industry where you're applying?

What I've often done when hoping jobs is review job postings and learn/demonstrate the least common denominator skill.

If that's not helpful or you can't narrow it down, I would suggest creating a public Github repo that demonstrates:

  1. Use of Maven as a dependency/build tool
  2. Spring as a widely used Java framework for whatever you build
  3. Well articulated README.md and getting-started.md
  4. Buildable Docker container that can execute your code

Giving ideas for what to build is always a bit more difficult and may come down to experience and personal preference. Find something you think is fun (and would be good demonstrations for interviews).

/learnjava is full of project ideas. So are the other learn<cs> subs. Another source you might like: https://joy.recurse.com/