This is mostly bad advice. Not that these things won't help you, but the best way to improve yourself is to work professionally as a developer until you are no

This is mostly bad advice. Not that these things won't help you, but the best way to improve yourself is to work professionally as a developer until you are no longer junior. Best part is that you get paid for this. Here's my take: 1) Polish your resume. Get a friend who is good at editing to take a look at it. Better yet, pay someone to help you polish your resume. Once you have a good template, updating it is easier, so the few hundred dollars you spend on this will likely be a great investment. Even if you are a great writer, it's good to get another person's perspective. It's a one page document (at least at this stage in your career) and it's the single most important document you have, so make it good. 2) Keep your resume simple. One page, no graphics, or at least simple graphics. No typos. If you are careless about typos on a one page document, then what does that say about your ability to write bug free code? Maybe there's no connection between the two, but that doesn't mean a hiring manager will see it that way. You'd be surprised how few junior candidates have clean, simple and readable resumes, and having one sets you apart. 3) Interview a lot. It's a numbers game so just send out a lot of resumes. Try to send out resumes to places you don't care as much about first and then use those interviews as practice. The best way to practice for interviews is not to do online coding tests or read books. It is to actually interview. 4) Be persistent. You might go through periods with no responses from anyone followed by periods with lots of responses in a row. Don't get discouraged.