Advice to a pre final year student

Hello guys, I am currently in my pre final year and i would like to work as a data scientist. I have taken up a course that teaches statistics, SQL, python, AL&ML, data visualization tools, excel etc. Is there any advice that y'all would give to me so that i end up as an entry level data scientist in s good company. Also I would appreciate if you could tell me the starting salary for an emtry level data science job role. Thankyou!