My job search experience in a small western college town has pretty much mirrored yours. I'm a grad student so I'm only looking for part time work, and about tw

My job search experience in a small western college town has pretty much mirrored yours. I'm a grad student so I'm only looking for part time work, and about twice a year I send out a few applications for development positions and almost always get as many offers as I applied to, from which I either take a better position or use as leverage at my current position. I'm not a CS student, but I think my resume (where I list tons of projects completed and programming languages I'm comfortable with) stands out against the CS student/new grad resumes they're probably swamped with. Occasionally I'm turned down for something like not remembering some syntax triviality, something that could easily be looked up; that's a sure sign that I wouldn't want to be working there.