Step 1: Identify your areas of focus for applications.

What types of opportunities will you be primarily applying for? Try to narrow down your focus to 2-3 areas within Software Engineering, such as front-end development, or iOS engineering.

Step 2: Research job postings.

Find a variety of job postings (current or archived), including full-time jobs from multiple industries and company sizes. Once you have at least 5, combine the information you’ve found into 3 lists:

• Required Skills
• Recommended Skills
• Non-Technical Skills

Step 3: List out your skills.

Color code your skills into these 3 categories:

• Courses, certifications, and online classes
• Class projects, hackathons, personal projects
• Work experiences and internships

Step 4: Fill out a Venn Diagram.

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Step 5: Fill out the Overlap of your Venn Diagram.

For anything listed in both the left and the right sides, list it in the middle.