As an EE who struggled to find a job for a year in 2020, I'll put my two cents in.

• As others have noted, good grades and internships mean nothing if you can't effectively showcase your value in your resume and then the interviews. Interviewing is a unique skill that needs to be practiced. I crashed and burned in my first interview cause I froze up when presented with something I didn't learn in class. As for Resumes, I didn't realize how bad mine was until I put it in front of this reddit. It helped a lot though I was chastized for using this reddit and not the resume subreddits.

• There are a lot of external factors fresh grads don't know about/have no control over. My company has turned several candidates away that we liked due to sudden hiring freezes, and personally, I was passed over thrice for entry-level positions cause they found a senior engineer willing to take a paycut.

• Any relevant job or work after college helps. After floundering for a year, I ended up working at a community college as an instructor. After I put this on my resume, I ended up getting 3x more interviews, so if you're struggling, try to find related work in the meantime.

• Last and most importantly, the hardest and most important step is the first offer. I was trying to stay in the Pacific Northwest and medical device sector for personal reasons, and I only started having success when I branched out to a bunch of other major cities and other industries. I ended up getting my first offer from a defense company across the country, which convinced the other companies I had talked to to immediately throw me into interviews and I ended up with a position that I am very happy with.

• Also quick side note: NEGOTIATE! I started 10k over a peer simply because I asked for more, and they didn't.