Why am I not invited to at least an interview?

It's possible that all of your experience and talents are in areas that are of no interest to the companies you are applying with.

I'll use myself as an example. I have roughly 30 years experience as a computer programmer. I program mostly on mid range systems, and do PC work mostly as a hobby.

I have held almost every position that can be held in software design and testing.

I have no college degree at all.

If I were to walk into a company today and apply for a job as a PC programmer, I would most likely be turned away. Not because I'm stupid. Not because I am not a programmer, but because I'm not the specific type of programmer they are looking for.

Perhaps you are in a similar situation.

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I assume you gave the first post the thumbs down? Wow. Nice attitude! Grow up. Your arrogant "I don't want to hear what I don't want to hear" attitude is toxic for working for/with someone else.

Your GPA is terrible. Most companies are not interested in kids with associates degrees, except in the most menial jobs (customer service , etc.)

You imply that you feel an associates degree (from some unnamed school) qualifies you to claim the title of software engineer. No, it doesn't. You need to earn that.

You are writing "a video grading software..." I assume English is not your native language? Or you really need to find someone you is actually literate to proof read your prose.

The smart software engineers know that any commercially successful project is made up of a team that works well together. What team projects, under tight deadlines, have you participated in?

Here is what HR looks for:

Degree - associates may not be acceptable. associates degree and clear evidence of illiteracy will NOT be acceptable.

Experience - ask your friend for more specifics about the type of projects they work on so that you can better high-lite how your experience matches it.

Flexibility - They don't want a one shot wonder. They want a guy who has breadth and depth enough to take on all sorts of projects, not just video related.

Team Player - A large company has its pick of recent graduates. From what I've read, your resume wouldn't get pass my desk, either. Your GPA is a killer. What were you thinking allowing it to get so low? You sound like a loner, and really very unlikely to succeed at a large company.

Don't get me wrong. You will succeed or fail based on your ability to adapt your interests and skills to what the market needs. But big companies really want only a certain "class" of S.E.s. You are outside that core class, so I advise you to find a place with a better fit, or just free lance.

How many open source projects have you contributed (substantially) to?

How much networking (I'm talking people with real names you know) are you doing?

At the entry level, do you really think someone who claims to be writing an OS qualifies seems to be a focused linux programmer? They don't care how smart you are if you can't apply it to their needs. Your message needs to be clear: You are the Terminator of all aspects of Linux code. You understand that they probably have a huge department working on graphics? Trying to be a Renaissance Man is not going to impress them. They are looking for bright, aggressive drones who will put in 16 - 18 hour days on doing projects that are horribly BORING. The pay off is career advancement and money and woofing rights.

My advice ?

1. Look at small companies (or contractors)

2. Continue to acquire *marketable* skills. Understand that the vast majority of programming is DB and decentralized (web) oriented, not graphics. Certainly not linux based graphics. So, you will need to establish creds in that small field or diversify your portfolio.

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Specialist - one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Generalist - one who knows less and less about more and more until she knows absolutely nothing about everything.

HR is looking for the specialist with the background of a generalist. oxymoron.

A 2.6 GPA is not impressive and an associates degree is of limited use. With that said, you should work on getting some certifications and perking up your resume. Like the other person said, you may need to submit examples of your work.

When you apply do you proof read stuff you submit?