I feel like a great deal many people aren't being helpful. I don't think studentroom is a particularly helpful place for advice, reddit has a computer science careers forum which is full of advice, quora also has some incredibly good advice.
Either way, I'll give you my advice:
BE PROACTIVE
I cannot emphasise this enough.
IT is a huge industry, the only way you as a CS graduate can prove you have the skill is through projects and internships. Have you heard of 'cracking the coding interview'? Get it, it's a good investment, it covers running time, data structures, technical interviews.
- Github: This is invaluable, contribute to open source, write your own code no matter how small and make sure to document and add a read me to any projects so anyone can see what it's supposed to do. Github is invaluable, because it can act as a portfolio.
- LinkedIn: plenty of people get head hunted through linkedin, make connections, connect to people from your course, friends, your professors. Browse through companies and their employees, they can see who has looked at their page and they may then look at yours. There is plenty of advice out there about organising your linkedin page.
- Job fairs: Have you tried researching these? Go to any near you, talk to companies you're interested in, they may even take an interest in you and later call you for an interview.
- Jobsites: Indeed, Monster; uploading your CV and updating it every week is most likely more productive than going to a job centre. You could even try going and talking to agencies related to your industry.
- Meetups, hackathons, there are so many opportunities for you to go out and meet hobby or professional developers, just google for any near you.
- Keep your skills sharp, Codecademy has invaluable tutorials, CodingBat is useful if you need to go over the basics again, try CodeChef, SPOJ, TopCoder, they have brilliant problems that will stretch your mind, try to solve these with minimal help. You will get better the more you do them.
- Consult your university, ask them to review your CV and get them to help with interview practice, cover letters, applications for graduate internships or schemes, there are those out there that have a 2:2.
- I mentioned opensource before, but just start your own project, build a website, learn and build an android application, there are so many tutorials out there, if you run into problems consult the people of stackoverflow, they'll help you. Upload the app to the play store, put it up on github with a readme, add it to your CV as part of a small projects section under your education.
It's invaluable to show enthusiasm for development if you want to go into development and you can showcase that through your personal projects. Your degree should have given you the basics, so it isn't as if you're learning from scratch.
But you have to do all this yourself, like I said, be as proactive as possible.