Work on some open source projects, start your own, etc. They can be small, it doesn't really matter, but these are great for explaining gaps. I actually got a j

Work on some open source projects, start your own, etc. They can be small, it doesn't really matter, but these are great for explaining gaps. I actually got a job where I spent a lot of time talking about an open source project I was working on (really just a personal project), one of the guys interviewing me seemed really interested in it so we spent our entire portion of the interview just talking about that.