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it's harder to get hired than it is to get into a good school??

OS

OS

Lifer

Over the past two weeks, I've submitted my resume to a bunch of companies and I haven't gotten one offer for an interview yet. These are all for entry level EE positions.

Man, back when I was in HS and applying to college, it was pretty easy to get accepted to school's like UCLA, Berkeley, etc.

I dunno, I just thought that was an interesting contrast. I wish someone would have told me when I first started college, but the time has long since past.

 
Two weeks???? It took me 3 months from the time I started submitted resumes to the time I finally had an interview. (And I think that 3 months was pretty quick!)

These were for entry level mechanical engineering positions.
 
You go to school when the economy is down, you work when the economy is going well. Go back to school.

How many of these companies have you called after giving them your resume?
 
Am I supposed to call them after submitting my resume? Who do I call? I've never applied for a full time, professional work before so I don't know what's going on.

I dunno, am I being impatient?

I submitted my resume and transcript through an online campus interview system for an opening at Raytheon and I found out this morning I wasn't selected.

 
I was applying for jobs last spring...

Actually, I only applied for one, and got hired. My job search lasted less than two weeks from application/resume submission to beginning work 🙂
 
That's cause there is no work right now. I'd pick up a book or two ASAP on this - search at amazon and read reviews on them - you don't want to be here 5 months from now without a job and it could happen these days. Most people don't know how to find a job well (neither do I), so start now, not in 5 months. Don't be like my neighbor who, with his BSc, and an IT diploma after that, is still working part time at futureshop (it's like bestbuy) 18 months after graduation.
 
Maybe it's your resume.

A g/f I had a couple years ago graduated from Pepperdine with a Journalism degree. She was jobless for months, then I finally decided to look at her resume and fix it up. I redid it from scratch and helped her send those out. Bingo. She went from a 5% to 75% response rate, even from companies that had previously rejected her.
 
Originally posted by: OS
Am I supposed to call them after submitting my resume? Who do I call? I've never applied for a full time, professional work before so I don't know what's going on.

I dunno, am I being impatient?

I submitted my resume and transcript through an online campus interview system for an opening at Raytheon and I found out this morning I wasn't selected.
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Welcome to the high tech recession. With tech jobs are scarce as they are, and competition so high due to unemployment, you are supposed to bang on doors after submitting your resume. Patience is completely irrelevant. Think about it, there are hundreds of other candidates who also submitted resumes, and unless yours is brilliant, you can't just sit on your ass and wait.

Not that I know any better. 😱

FWIW, it's a lot harder to get into U.C. Berkeley now (esp. EECS) than it was in the mid 1990s. 3 or 4 years ago, it was absurdly easy to get a tech job. The .com boom and bust caused nearly as much pain and distruction as it did eye-popping, lasting successes.
 
Originally posted by: DeafeningSilence
it's harder to get hired than it is to get into a good school??
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now, yes.
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Its been like this for awhile. High school counselors are pretty much useless in helping you to prepare you for college, and college can't really give you a taste of what the real working world is like.



 
Seriously, give the HR person a call. Just tell them you submitted your resume a few days ago and was wondering if you can get an interview or anything. Ive done it. Got me a job. But that was before the bubble burst...
 

alright, I was hoping to work right after I got out of school but apparently that's not gonna happen. I guess I better sandbag in for a long uphill fight.

 
I should have went to a more mediocre school... gotten a higher GPA. Although I wouldn't be guaranteed a job, at least more grad schools would be open to me.
 
Think about it:
You pay schools money to attend.
Companies pay you money to attend.

It's going to be a lot easier to convince someone to take your money than it is to convince them to give you money. Especially in a slow economic period.
 
Originally posted by: AgentEL
I should have went to a more mediocre school... gotten a higher GPA. Although I wouldn't be guaranteed a job, at least more grad schools would be open to me.
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heh, that's actually what I did. I went to Berkeley for two years then I went to Cal Poly Pomona. My GPA is 3.26, good enough to get into grad school at least.

I was telling my friend this and she's like, 3.26 is ok. . . for an engineer. :Q She went to Berkeley and graduated from with a degree in econ about half a year ago and she's working now.

I dunno, maybe if I can't find work in engineering, I'll ask her to set me up, she works in the financial/investment industry.



 
Originally posted by: OS
Over the past two weeks, I've submitted my resume to a bunch of companies and I haven't gotten one offer for an interview yet. These are all for entry level EE positions.

Man, back when I was in HS and applying to college, it was pretty easy to get accepted to school's like UCLA, Berkeley, etc.

I dunno, I just thought that was an interesting contrast. I wish someone would have told me when I first started college, but the time has long since past.
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Start chasing the military or gov. They are willing to take newbies.
Military will give you tech training if needed and make you more valuable if you choose to leave.

 
Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Originally posted by: OS
Over the past two weeks, I've submitted my resume to a bunch of companies and I haven't gotten one offer for an interview yet. These are all for entry level EE positions.

Man, back when I was in HS and applying to college, it was pretty easy to get accepted to school's like UCLA, Berkeley, etc.

I dunno, I just thought that was an interesting contrast. I wish someone would have told me when I first started college, but the time has long since past.
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Start chasing the military or gov. They are willing to take newbies.
Military will give you tech training if needed and make you more valuable if you choose to leave.
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i've applied/interviewed with NSA and defense companies like Lockheed, etc. I went to a few of their presentations too. Doesn't sound too interesting working there. The atmosphere and environment just sounded so bland.

I think it would be awesome to work at some place more commercial like Microsoft, Apple, Pixar or even a start-up (what's left of them).

hehe... maybe I should stop being so picky, but I figure, I've waited this long, why not wait for the perfect job?
 
Objective
·An engineering career, with a focus on electronics and computer hardware/software.
·Leveraging verbal and written communication skills.

Education
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, March 2003
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
CSU GPA 3.26/4.00

Additional undergraduate courses completed at:
University of California, Berkeley, 1997-1999
Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 1997-1999

Classwork
·Elective coursework primarily in computer architecture and programming.
·Individual project on building a distributed/cluster-computing system, which divides a large computational task among several discrete processors.
·Group project on building a reduced instruction set (RISC) processor ground up using a Verilog implementation.

Computer Skills
C, C++, Java, Verilog, MatLab, Pspice

Work Experience
Slide Archivist
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, June-August 2001
Scanned, edited, reviewed and categorized slides for the Architecture department?s digital slide project. Used Photoshop to edit and correct scanned slides.

Computer Technician
ALT Computers Inc., Rancho Cucamonga, CA, July-October 1999
Assembled, repaired and configured a wide range of computers, from basic personal computers to multiprocessor servers with RAID.

Personal
United States Citizenship.
Dean?s Honors List.
Fukienese Association Academic Scholarship awarded 1997.

Hobbies and Special Interests
Reading, music, photography, art and design, following technology and financial trends.
 
Dude, go to law school. Right now, places are dying for patent engineers. 120K starting I heard :Q

Just curious, why would citizenship matter?
 
Make sure your formatting is completely consistant.

I've never heard of putting your citizenship or your hobbies on a resume.
 
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