Things are heading more and more towards web based applications. Take for example the article recently featured regarding Adobe's Photoshop express, that is accessed online. Then you have maps, spreadsheets, word processing etc etc. As a web developer who recently graduated in computer science at university, finding a job was not too difficult. I had only very basic skills in MySQL and PHP to begin with but became quite competent later on. I was required to learn beyond what I had learnt at university, these skills included the Zend Framework (an OO PHP framework), AJAX, CSS and HTML that conformed to the W3C standard and programming techniques in general. My skill level has increased 10 fold. I suggest learning as many programming languages/frameworks/techniques used in web development as possible (.NET, Zend Framework, PHP, MySQL, AJAX, Perl, Python etc), and possibly creating your own website. This site could then be mentioned on your resume and attract positive attention. Like other people suggested you could also work on Open Source projects, again having a website would be useful as you could list all your accomplishments in one easy to access location whilst showing your skills as a web developer.
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Things are heading more and more towards web based applications. Take for example the article recently featured regarding Adobe's Photoshop express, that is accessed online. Then you have maps, spreadsheets, word processing etc etc. As a web developer who recently graduated in computer science at university, finding a job was not too difficult. I had only very basic skills in MySQL and PHP to begin with but became quite competent later on. I was required to learn beyond what I had learnt at university, these skills included the Zend Framework (an OO PHP framework), AJAX, CSS and HTML that conformed to the W3C standard and programming techniques in general. My skill level has increased 10 fold. I suggest learning as many programming languages/frameworks/techniques used in web development as possible (.NET, Zend Framework, PHP, MySQL, AJAX, Perl, Python etc), and possibly creating your own website. This site could then be mentioned on your resume and attract positive attention. Like other people suggested you could also work on Open Source projects, again having a website would be useful as you could list all your accomplishments in one easy to access location whilst showing your skills as a web developer.