Ask HN: Advice for a newly graduated Rails dev

The two posts earlier today asking for advice made me realise that I could do with some myself.

I graduate from university this week and have been looking for a job for the past few months. During uni I did contract work and am now trying to find something permanent. I've gotten through multiple rounds of interviews with several companies and coding tests have never been an issue for me, despite this I've been unsuccessful so far.

It'd be good to hear stories of how people got their first jobs whether at startups or not.