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If you've managed to score at least one job since you graduated,
you should have cultivated someone from that job, if not your
direct manager than another manager or at least a coworker who
can attest to your abilities (get contact info from people you work
well with who leave the co before you, they are free of the various
restrictions most co HRs put on giving references).
If you're a new graduate with zero working experience, you're
already behind your classmates who put in some time doing
internships, because they will most likely have references from
their internship managers that praise their abilities to interact
with developers, obtain information and produce documents
that meet content specs and deadlines. The requirements the
interns had to meet to get those glowing references will have
been less demanding than those of a real job, but they'll still
be better off than a competing candidate who has no experience
at all, who will have nothing to offer but a crisp, newly-printed
diploma, your grades and, hopefully, some praise-filled letters
from professors.
As far as certificates of various types are concerned, I would
rank them in value at the same level as the crisp, newly-printed
diploma.
The unanswered, and perhaps unanswerable, question is how to impress
someone I never met before that I'm a quality wordsmith worth the
hire, and how do I make that impression within a presumably short
window of attention?
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