Participants take part in HTML500, a course teaching computer coding skills, in Vancouver, on Jan. 24, 2015. The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward
Throughout her university career, Jacqueline Silver assumed her computer science degree would guarantee her a job. Finding out she was wrong was a demoralizing experience.
Silver, who graduated recently from McGill University and now lives in Toronto, spent more than a year applying for hundreds of jobs before finally finding one in her field this month.
