I would start off looking at things to do with the mozilla project, even if you don't do c++ there are a lot of things to work on with them, its going to start

I would start off looking at things to do with the mozilla project, even if you don't do c++ there are a lot of things to work on with them, its going to start improving your ranking on github. You also want to make sure you're on linkedin even if you're going for your first job linkedin is a good way to connect with recruiters.