Beyond being extremely generic, his advice underplays the importance of deliberate practice at coding. Honestly, if you can hack, the jobs will come. Sure, you might need to network a little, but the skills are the basis. Nobody from my school with technical chops is unemployed or without good internships.
Meanwhile all the students who network and promote themselves but don't code are stuck in unpaid internship after unpaid internship.
For what it's worth, I've worked nearly full-time at a local web design shop doing "light" development (essentially building a WordPress site from a PSD) in addition to my college classes. I probably should have mentioned that in my post.
Meanwhile all the students who network and promote themselves but don't code are stuck in unpaid internship after unpaid internship.