How hard is it to get a job?

Your expectations might need to be reevaluated.

Your projects could be unique, as it should, but uniqueness won't exactly help you. Execution is better than the idea. It's always better to take a basic app idea and focus on the implementation rather than coming up with a unique idea.

The number of projects is also irrelevant. Its possible, and from experience, to create more than a single project in a weekend. On the contrary, I've spent several months on 1 single application. It wasn't even a unique idea, it was a simple CRUD social media website, and became a major talking point in all of my interviews. GitHub profiles are almost never looked at. Your largest technical projects should be on your resume verbatim anyway.

As some have mentioned, Cybersecurity and Web Development are two different careers, so having a A+ cert also won't impact your job search.

I wont say that knowing a bunch of technologies is harmful, but it depends on the situation. The time these skills are meaningful on a resume is when its shown through professional experience. It's good to express exposure to many technologies, but exposure and production-level are a worlds difference. I've removed almost half the skills off my resume and received more than twice the interviews compared to the previous year with virtually no other changes. I only focused on the skills my portfolio expresses in great detail and where I can talk upon the usage of them. To be specific, this was 2021vs2022 and 2022's job market was undoubtedly worse than 2021.

Sending out 40 applications is also a small number. You can look through all the other CS subreddits. Plenty of posts of people struggling to find a job after 100-300, or more, applications. Personally speaking, I've sent out 220 internship applications a few years ago to no success. Last year I've sent out almost 300 applications before I received my offer.

With no work experience, you are not above average. You wouldn't be here with this issue otherwise. You definitely have some stuff holding you back, like not having a CS degree. I sense a smell of entitlement, or just the lack of caffeine in my system, but that might be holding you back as well. Don't compare yourself to bootcamp grads.

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