I’m studying full-stack developer. I’ve been sending out my CV to look for a job, but I’ve been rejected by several places. Like in this email — there were 800+ applications for a junior developer position. 🤕🤕🤕
What’s going on with tech job market? I knew it would be difficult, but this honestly feels overwhelming and kind of hopeless. I’m a non-EU/EAA student, I don’t speak Finnish. Can someone tell me what direction I should take?



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9 comments

  1. It is country that is leading unemployment numbers in Europe. It is hopeless.

  3. > I’ve been sending out my CV to look for a job, but I’ve been rejected by several places.

    If it helps, you are not alone. We have highest unemployment rate in EU.

    > What’s going on with tech job market?

    Depression

    > Can someone tell me what direction I should take?

    You need to magically get seniority and proper project and github portfolio.

  4. it’s notoriously difficult to find a job in finland without speaking the language, tech industry or not. keep applying i suppose, but you might want to consider picking up a few books on finnish basics

  5. “Easiest” way is just to learn Finnish, that opens up a huge number of opportunities compared to English-only. Unfortunate but that’s just how it is now since the tech boom seems to be over. And even for Finnish speakers who are junior developers it’s still pretty tough.

  6. What experience do you have? What are your competences and capabilities as a developer? Can you work in a software development organization and take on responsibilities to work on things by yourself? Do you have skills that other people might not have? What are your strengths and weaknesses as a sw developer?

    Let’s say you would have to start working by yourself on an actual software product or service. What could you accomplish just by yourself? Assuming that you have the necessary technical resources for it.

    If you can work on software that meets real business needs and work throughout the phases of the entire lifecycle from planning and design to deployment and maintenance – and everything in between – you should land a job at some point. However, if you are “only” a cog in the sw development organisation and are not able to interface with no other people than other technical staff, it will be harder. SW development that is tightly coupled with business is the place to be when things change a lot.

    For a good answer, I just want to know where you stand. You might know that the downturn and the recent developments in AI augmented teams are not good for juniors. And also interns. In general.

    So you need to first of all find the employers that make an effort to onboard recent graduates and train them. I don’t know what such companies are at the moment because the situtation is bad for everyone.

    Good luck anyways, if you answer my burst of questions or not. 🙂

  7. Honestly your best chances of getting a job is outside Finland

  8. Just leave. There is better opportunities outside of Finland.

  9. Does your place of study organize or host any job fairs? My previous company hired lot of juniors through that, they had a stand there and you could talk with them. I suppose that would have a small advantage over people who only send a CV. 

    You might also be much closer to getting hired than that number would lead you believe – a recruiter once told me they get so many applicants who’s CV is absolute trash, no experience, no studies, no personal projects on the field, living in India and expecting the company to organize relocation.

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