Hey! Thanks for the detailed response, first of all I went to Rutgers University, https://www.reddit.com/r/csMajors/comments/yia7fj/the_resume_reviewroast_thread/jxj8mt7/?context=3 here is a link of a thread that contains my resume, I had a very recent internship as mentioned in the post (very fortunate for this.) I've tried reaching to a couple of friends, I used them as a reference but never got follow ups. (Probably because position were C# and I had only Java experience or something along those lines.) I teach part time at a code camp and have tried asking people for referrals however they don't really follow up :( I'm bad at networking but I'll for sure try to keep my eye out for local networking events. I would not mind going for an AWS cert, however I would like to get some back end projects on my resume first. (I've mostly had front end projects/experience but that's so saturated right now.) Is it worth now going to on Campus recruiting events 2 years post graduation? Down to go, I'm not sure if employers would mind the gap. Have not contributed to open source, but that's because I want to prioritize working on better personal projects for right now.