If you can afford to do so, you might also want to consider donating your time and skills to open source projects. When I was starting out, working on developing web sites for open source projects as well as contributing code to a few projects helped me improve my resume quite a bit. The site I used to find projects was sourceforge.net, although there are now many other options as well.

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