Comment Job Market Signaling (Score 1) 1123
Read Noble Laureate Michael Spence's famous article about Job Market Signaling
Once you understand the thinking of this article you should try and think about what signals can you send to potential employers. It has to be something that can not easily be falsifier and it has to have been "expensive" for you to achieve. Expensive defined as effort by you. Contributing meaningful to an Open Source project or something like that.