The biggest trouble is the difference between the approach a lecturer and a development manager. The students cover the topics and the concepts as small lessons and problems. They learn what a particle tool or technology could do for them or implement it at the very basic level is much different as compared the way it is used in the market for development. The reasons why they end up having turned down at the interviews is that employers don’t hope to get from them what they would pay for. That is “value for money”. So what is that could make a difference if you have never been in the top five in your whole academics

Keeping aside the CV thing, Application procedures and interview techniques whatsoever there is something you can do to stand apart from the fresh IT consignments shipped into the open market by the colleges and the universities every acedemic session.

Blogging:

Most important of all modern times as an IT professional is to have good blog. A blog which is updated properly with good content. What makes up a good content?
You don’t need to be an editor, a Microsoft Certified valuable Professional or Professional software engineer to write. Start with documenting small problems you solve
In your course work with solutions and the proper documentations. Use good SEO techniques ‘Compulsory for modern day IT professional’. Thousands of students search
Solutions for the same problems you have already solved so help them and in return they will help you be generating good traffic to your blog. Write reviews about the articles, columns
And topics you read and their comparison. Write about new technologies as they are always been searched.

Website:

If you are IT professional, it is unacceptable not to have your presence on the web. It won’t cost more than 10 pounds to host one. You can even use free hosting service like””
Develop a simple client server architecture which is dynamic in nature. Website could be about any thing from educational service / Directory, good technology links and news or something
You from your interests other than career like photography. Take photography if you do it for an instance. You could provide a database for your work and others free of cost, could provide small application which could add copyright info and contact information on the photographs and is downloadable from your website. You can develop it using Image and StringBuilder classes
Provided by Dot Net framework in less than 5 hours.

Work Experience:

You do not need to work for Sun Microsystems or Microsoft to put experience on your CV. Get around your local market or the shops in your town centre. You will find many businesses willing to get a small 5- 10 page website for their marketing or a small database for their invoices and accounts. Do it for fun and you will be rewarded with good contract work to be displayed on your CV as an experience?

What else, try to find volunteer work related to your field? Training youngsters or elderly the basics of computers and internet will do the work for you. It really adds up and is considered better
Than staying home and looking for the perfect dream job when you are compared to other having just the qualification as yours. So every little helps, If you have nothing to do start reviewing your assignments and edit them for publishing on your website or blog.

Here is simple application which makes use of COM Library and 

with some lines of code you can give any application a voice. 

This example and the application explain three concepts. 

1. Adding COM references to your Project.

2. Declaring and using relevant object.

3. Adding voice responses as your application.

1. Adding COM references to your Project. 

Open a new windows form application and add Textbox and Button. To add link the relevant reference follow these steps 

Right click your project node in solution explorer in which you want to add reference –> click Add Reference 

In the Add Reference explorer window select the COM component from the COM tab or use browse option if you want to add specific dll from another resource.  For this example you can add sapi.dll following path below 

%windows%/System32/Speech/Common/sapi.dll

you may copy this dll into your bin folder which makes it easy to reference and some times it is feasable to provide dll with your installation package as your windows might lack it. 

2. Declaring and using relevant object. 

    // add this reference to your assembly

    using SpeechLib; 

    // Declare object in the class

    SpVoice spVoice; 

    Use a button and add following code behind its OnClick Event 

    // textToSpeak = any string you want to listen

    spvoice.Speak(textToSpeak,   SpeechLib.SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags.SVSFDefault); 

3. Adding voice responses as your application. 

     You can add any voice play back at any of the biultin events as follows 

     // Speak when application starts

    private void Pronouncer_Shown(object sender, EventArgs e)  

       {

     spvoice.Speak(“Hello and Welcome To the   English Pronouncing application”,              SpeechLib.SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags.SVSFDefault);

       } 

     // Speak when application Closes

    private void Form_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)  

     {

    spvoice.Speak(“Thank you for using Application, goodbye”,       SpeechLib.SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags.SVSFDefault);                                             

     }

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Hope it helps