{"id":19635679,"url":"https://github.com/codepath/student-career-handbook","last_synced_at":"2026-01-27T01:32:43.824Z","repository":{"id":37781792,"uuid":"254779601","full_name":"codepath/student-career-handbook","owner":"codepath","description":"Covers all things student career, internships, and industry context","archived":false,"fork":false,"pushed_at":"2024-01-19T02:35:06.000Z","size":364,"stargazers_count":277,"open_issues_count":1,"forks_count":41,"subscribers_count":18,"default_branch":"master","last_synced_at":"2025-02-26T21:45:03.799Z","etag":null,"topics":["internships","software-engineering","stem","technical-interviews"],"latest_commit_sha":null,"homepage":"https://books.codepath.org/student-handbook/","language":null,"has_issues":true,"has_wiki":null,"has_pages":null,"mirror_url":null,"source_name":null,"license":null,"status":null,"scm":"git","pull_requests_enabled":true,"icon_url":"https://github.com/codepath.png","metadata":{"files":{"readme":"README.md","changelog":null,"contributing":null,"funding":null,"license":null,"code_of_conduct":null,"threat_model":null,"audit":null,"citation":null,"codeowners":null,"security":null,"support":null,"governance":null,"roadmap":null,"authors":null,"dei":null,"publiccode":null,"codemeta":null}},"created_at":"2020-04-11T02:44:58.000Z","updated_at":"2025-02-24T02:02:04.000Z","dependencies_parsed_at":"2024-11-14T17:32:26.172Z","dependency_job_id":null,"html_url":"https://github.com/codepath/student-career-handbook","commit_stats":null,"previous_names":[],"tags_count":0,"template":false,"template_full_name":null,"purl":"pkg:github/codepath/student-career-handbook","repository_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/codepath%2Fstudent-career-handbook","tags_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/codepath%2Fstudent-career-handbook/tags","releases_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/codepath%2Fstudent-career-handbook/releases","manifests_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/codepath%2Fstudent-career-handbook/manifests","owner_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners/codepath","download_url":"https://codeload.github.com/codepath/student-career-handbook/tar.gz/refs/heads/master","sbom_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories/codepath%2Fstudent-career-handbook/sbom","scorecard":null,"host":{"name":"GitHub","url":"https://github.com","kind":"github","repositories_count":286080680,"owners_count":28795468,"icon_url":"https://github.com/github.png","version":null,"created_at":"2022-05-30T11:31:42.601Z","updated_at":"2026-01-27T01:07:07.743Z","status":"ssl_error","status_checked_at":"2026-01-27T01:07:06.974Z","response_time":59,"last_error":"SSL_read: unexpected eof while reading","robots_txt_status":"success","robots_txt_updated_at":"2025-07-24T06:49:26.215Z","robots_txt_url":"https://github.com/robots.txt","online":false,"can_crawl_api":true,"host_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub","repositories_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repositories","repository_names_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/repository_names","owners_url":"https://repos.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/hosts/GitHub/owners"}},"keywords":["internships","software-engineering","stem","technical-interviews"],"created_at":"2024-11-11T12:26:17.297Z","updated_at":"2026-01-27T01:32:43.808Z","avatar_url":"https://github.com/codepath.png","language":null,"funding_links":[],"categories":[],"sub_categories":[],"readme":"# 👋🏾 Introduction\n\n_\u003cmark style=\"background-color:orange;\"\u003e----\u003c/mark\u003e_\\\n_\u003cmark style=\"background-color:orange;\"\u003e**Hi there! This handbook has been replaced by the**\u003c/mark\u003e_ :arrow\\_right: [_**CodePath Career Kit**_](https://go.codepath.org/careerkit) :arrow\\_left:_**. **\u003cmark style=\"background-color:orange;\"\u003e**You're welcome to continue to use the handbook if you prefer the format, but you can find all newer resources**\u003c/mark\u003e_ [_\u003cmark style=\"background-color:orange;\"\u003e**here**\u003c/mark\u003e_](https://go.codepath.org/careerkit)_\u003cmark style=\"background-color:orange;\"\u003e**.**\u003c/mark\u003e_\\\n_\u003cmark style=\"background-color:orange;\"\u003e**---**\u003c/mark\u003e_\\\n\\\n👋🏾 Welcome to our [CodePath.org](http://codepath.org/) Career Center Resources! ✨The goal of these guides is to demystify the software engineering field and how to set yourself up for success to become a software engineer or in other related positions after you graduate.\n\n### Who is this guide for? \u003ca href=\"#who-is-this-guide-for\" id=\"who-is-this-guide-for\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\nThis guide is specifically targeted for [CodePath.org](http://codepath.org/) students that are currently attending or will be attending university, will be or are studying within a STEM major, and are interested in pursuing a career as a software engineer.\n\nThe guide assumes some knowledge of certain technical terms used throughout but is intended to be accessible to those very early within their university experience. Please contact us if you find anything confusing so we can continue to improve the accessibility of these guides!\n\n### Navigating this Guide \u003ca href=\"#navigating-this-guide\" id=\"navigating-this-guide\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\n👈🏽 Jump to any section by clicking on the sidebar or 👇🏽 start by reviewing the content below!\n\n* **Interested to understand more about a career in software engineering?** Check out [our questions answered](software-engineering/your-questions-answered/) page for answers to common questions.\n* **Interested in the specific steps you should complete while in college?** [Check out our success checklist](success-checklist.md) for a high-level overview.\n* **Interested in the skills and knowledge you’ll develop over your career as a software engineer?** [Check out the skills and knowledge map](skills-and-knowledge-tree.md) for a high-level introduction.\n* **Interested in starting or improving your resume?** Check out our [starter kit](https://goo.gl/q5dp5w) or [resume improvement guide](artifacts/student-resume-guide.md)\n* **Interested in how technical internship interviews work?** Check out our [guide to technical interviewing](technical-interviewing/technical-interviewing-guide.md) for a high-level overview.\n\n### Overview \u003ca href=\"#overview\" id=\"overview\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\nAs part of our programs, we offer students direct guidance and feedback on their resumes, LinkedIns and provide coaching and guidance during your internship search. We want to make sure every one of you has a clear pathway to your first (or next) great technical internship.\n\nThere are four major areas we want to help students navigate:\n\n1. **Career Exploration** - Provide you key context on how to succeed as a software engineer\n2. **Resume/LinkedIn** - Creating an effective resume and LinkedIn profile\n3. **Applying for Internships** - Sending out your resume and actually applying to companies\n4. **Technical Interviews** - Studying and becoming confident in technical internship interviews\n\n{% hint style=\"success\" %}\n❗To sign up for these programs, check out our [student career page here](https://codepath.org/career) to get setup with a mentor, learn more about virtual career fairs, and see what other services we provide for our students!\n{% endhint %}\n\n### 1. Career Exploration \u003ca href=\"#id-1-career-exploration\" id=\"id-1-career-exploration\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\nMany students at university have a lot of questions surrounding the overall technical landscape of being a software engineer, including what classes to take, what to do outside of class, what it’s like being a software engineer or even how to get started contributing in open-source.\n\nCheck out our guide [Software Engineering - Your Questions Answered](software-engineering/your-questions-answered/) for a detailed overview of your most common questions.\n\n### 2. Developing your Resume \u003ca href=\"#id-2-developing-your-resume\" id=\"id-2-developing-your-resume\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\nYour internship search begins with a resume and LinkedIn profile:\n\n* If you **do not have a resume**, [check out these materials for creating one](https://goo.gl/q5dp5w) based on our template.\n* If you **already have a resume**, [check out our guide for improving your existing resume](artifacts/student-resume-guide.md).\n\n### 3. Applying for Internships \u003ca href=\"#id-3-applying-for-internships\" id=\"id-3-applying-for-internships\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\nYour next step is applying for internships, this is about finding a set of companies and applying to them, and attending career fairs in order to set up a number of internship interviews:\n\nIf you are a Sophomore or Junior, check out our [3-steps to an internship search](https://medium.com/@seaon/3-step-guide-to-nail-your-internship-search-82ed58f7f6a) guide for a detailed walkthrough of how to start your summer internship search.\n\nIf you are a Freshman or Sophomore, apply for a few [early pre-internship summer programs](internship-and-job-search-strategy/early-internship-programs.md) which do not require much technical coding knowledge.\n\n### 4. Passing a Technical Internship Interview \u003ca href=\"#id-4-passing-a-technical-internship-interview\" id=\"id-4-passing-a-technical-internship-interview\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\nAfter you apply to enough companies, you’ll need to make sure you are prepared for the technical interviews associated with the companies that respond back positively:\n\nCheck out our [technical internship interview guide](technical-interviewing/technical-interviewing-guide.md) for everything you need to know about what technical interviews are like at top companies.\n\n### Bonus 1: Strengthening your Network \u003ca href=\"#bonus-1-strengthening-your-network\" id=\"bonus-1-strengthening-your-network\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\nOne of the best ways to increase your chances of finding great opportunities is to connect with more people: connect with new peers, recruiters and engineers. This can sometimes be difficult to do, or is put off because you don’t always know where to start.\n\nCheck out our [guide on expanding your network and following up](networking-and-communication/the-art-of-the-follow-up.md) for a concrete look into how to expand your professional network as well as your digital presence.\n\n### Bonus 2: The Secret to Asking for a Mentor \u003ca href=\"#bonus-2-the-secret-to-asking-for-a-mentor\" id=\"bonus-2-the-secret-to-asking-for-a-mentor\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\nWe all know it’s smart to think proactively about finding mentors because the right people in your corner can really accelerate your growth.\n\nHowever, we know that it can be awkward finding and asking a mentor to help, so we prepared a link to some great resources around [finding and asking for a technical mentor](bonus/finding-a-mentor.md).\n\n### Bonus 3: Code Quality and Cleanliness \u003ca href=\"#bonus-3-code-quality-and-cleanliness\" id=\"bonus-3-code-quality-and-cleanliness\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\nWhen coding in an interview context or especially when presenting code on your Github profile, it’s important to spend some attention on making sure your code is clean and avoids sending “red flags” by having a lot of misspellings, badly named variables or inconsistent whitespace/indentation. Check out our [code quality guide](domain-specific/improving-code-quality.md) for more details.\n\n{% hint style=\"success\" %}\nThis guide was originally authored and adapted by Nathan Esquenazi as part of the services offered to students through [CodePath.org](http://codepath.org/), a 501(3)c non-profit dedicated to forging an accelerated pathway into the tech industry for all university students.\n\nSpecial thanks to the many students, recruiters, and professional engineers that provided feedback and made this guide possible!\n{% endhint %}\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fcodepath%2Fstudent-career-handbook","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fcodepath%2Fstudent-career-handbook","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fcodepath%2Fstudent-career-handbook/lists"}