How to Land A Junior Developer Job in 2026 (LinkedIn, Side Project, Networking and Interviews)

About this episode

This episode discusses strategies for landing a junior developer job in 2026, focusing on LinkedIn, networking, interviews, and building side projects.

Register for my live event on how you can build practical AI skills to give you an unfair advantage in the job market: parsity.io/ai I am so sick of the doom and gloom narrative. Things are tough, but not impossible. If you're treating the job market like it's 2019, you're setting yourself up for failure. Let's go over LinkedIn (so cringe, I know), interviews, networking without being weird and the side project you need to build. You can grab my FREE interview prep material here: https://parsity.io/interview-prep

People in this episode

Host: Brian Jenney

Topics covered

• junior developer job
• job market
• LinkedIn
• networking
• interviews
• side projects
• AI skills

Keywords

• junior developer
• job market
• LinkedIn
• networking
• interview prep
• side projects
• AI skills

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: parsity.io, LinkedIn

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