As one of many others working in CS in NL and also partially involved in candidate evaluation process, I can say that on Dutch IT job market as anywhere else th

As one of many others working in CS in NL and also partially involved in candidate evaluation process, I can say that on Dutch IT job market as anywhere else the value of a diploma is low but value of skills is high. Proper CV with clear focus and skillset is a must. As an example, we're hired a graduate just a few days ago because he shown us good understanding of Angular and did an assessment well. Last year another graduate was hired because of the same reason. My wife doesn't have a CS degree, she studied programming for a year and a half from basics at home, put about 3-4 pet projects on github and also got hired within 2 months during a dead season for job market (july-august). So if you want to be hired, you should pick some popular amongst business language and framework (WebRTC is nice but it's a very niche), polish your skills, create a few simple pet projects, polish your CV (it doesn't need to be fancy and long, just clean and to the point) and you'll succeed. Also don't be afraid to ask feedback after you was rejected or not called back. May be there is something you don't notice which leads to rejection.