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Woohoo, about damn stinkin time!!!!!!

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Codewiz

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Finally a job offer. Graduated last May. After about 2000 resumes distributed. I finally got a job offer.

When I started my Computer Science degree, I never thought it would have been this tough. Almost took exactly a year to finally land something.

I only had 2 interviews offered in that year. One company said I was over qualified for a help desk position. The other is a government job programming that I landed.

If it wasn't for one of my friends mentioning my skills to his boss I would have never gotten the offer. My only advice is to ask your friends to keep an eye out for ya. Without contacts in a company, you are just another number to them. My only friend in the computer field got me the job.

Now I just have to pass a drug test. No eating the bread at Fat's Cafe. Too many poppy seeds.

Oh yeah and I have to get Top Secret Security Clearance. Hopefully that shouldn't be a problem.
 
Originally posted by: Codewiz
Finally a job offer. Graduated last May. After about 2000 resumes distributed. I finally got a job offer.

When I started my Computer Science degree, I never thought it would have been this tough. Almost took exactly a year to finally land something.

I only had 2 interviews offered in that year. One company said I was over qualified for a help desk position. The other is a government job programming that I landed.

If it wasn't for one of my friends mentioning my skills to his boss I would have never gotten the offer. My only advice is to ask your friends to keep an eye out for ya. Without contacts in a company, you are just another number to them. My only friend in the computer field got me the job.

Now I just have to pass a drug test. No eating the bread at Fat's Cafe. Too many poppy seeds.

Oh yeah and I have to get Top Secret Security Clearance. Hopefully that shouldn't be a problem.
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great congrats! Which department are you working under?
 
Originally posted by: dabuddha
Originally posted by: Codewiz
Finally a job offer. Graduated last May. After about 2000 resumes distributed. I finally got a job offer.

When I started my Computer Science degree, I never thought it would have been this tough. Almost took exactly a year to finally land something.

I only had 2 interviews offered in that year. One company said I was over qualified for a help desk position. The other is a government job programming that I landed.

If it wasn't for one of my friends mentioning my skills to his boss I would have never gotten the offer. My only advice is to ask your friends to keep an eye out for ya. Without contacts in a company, you are just another number to them. My only friend in the computer field got me the job.

Now I just have to pass a drug test. No eating the bread at Fat's Cafe. Too many poppy seeds.

Oh yeah and I have to get Top Secret Security Clearance. Hopefully that shouldn't be a problem.
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great congrats! Which department are you working under?
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Navy. I will be a civilian employee.

 
Originally posted by: SandLizard
crap. I'm still looking (grad in may 2002, CS degree). so's one of my friends...

good luck to you.
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Keep your head up. I know it is depressing. It is a pity that we have so many intelligent people that can't get jobs.
 
That is always the case. It's not what you know, it's who you know. 90% of the people i know that got their job was because of the recomendations/experience rather than qualifications.

Network people...start out slow and prove yourself to the right person. The tech market blows right now, or I wouldnt be working at half what my job title is worth. :disgust:
 
Originally posted by: LordThing
That is always the case. It's not what you know, it's who you know. 90% of the people i know that got their job was because of the recomendations/experience rather than qualifications.

Network people...start out slow and prove yourself to the right person. The tech market blows right now, or I wouldnt be working at half what my job title is worth. :disgust:
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See that is what really hurt me. I never really hung around the CS people at my school. Most of the people waited til the last moment to start projects and programs. I usually had my work done days before it was due and put extra functionality to get extra credit. I knew I was considered a dork when some graduate level indian students started coming to me for help. 🙂

I wish I had been a little more friendly with the people because it really hurt me when I graduated. I didn't have people in my field to network with. I hung out with a lot of mechanical and electrical engineers. They seemed to have the same work ethic as me.
 
Originally posted by: Codewiz
Finally a job offer. Graduated last May. After about 2000 resumes distributed. I finally got a job offer.
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I only had 2 interviews offered in that year. One company said I was over qualified for a help desk position. The other is a government job programming that I landed.
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Oh yeah and I have to get Top Secret Security Clearance. Hopefully that shouldn't be a problem.
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Gonna put the XML in X-Files?

😀

Congrats!
 
anyone have an idea of what its like for EEs out there? i'm looking at graduation by the end of next year.

couple of my friends have been searching and searching... most of them have gotten lucky (abt after a year or so) and found a job through some sort of "hook-up."

...i have no "hook-up" =(
 
Originally posted by: dokster
anyone have an idea of what its like for EEs out there? i'm looking at graduation by the end of next year.

couple of my friends have been searching and searching... most of them have gotten lucky (abt after a year or so) and found a job through some sort of "hook-up."

...i have no "hook-up" =(
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All my EE friends except one have found a job. Some of them are not working as a EE but as various different types of engineers. It is amazing how companies believe that engineers can fill any type of job.

 
Originally posted by: Codewiz
Originally posted by: dokster
anyone have an idea of what its like for EEs out there? i'm looking at graduation by the end of next year.

couple of my friends have been searching and searching... most of them have gotten lucky (abt after a year or so) and found a job through some sort of "hook-up."

...i have no "hook-up" =(
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All my EE friends except one have found a job. Some of them are not working as a EE but as various different types of engineers. It is amazing how companies believe that engineers can fill any type of job.
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The term engineer can be applied to just about any job title. Heck, my degree is in Geology and I am doing Novell/Notes and other Network adminitration. My cohort here in the office is an EE that got his CNE and he is doing Novell administration too. My dad works night shift at the post office with a guy with a bachelors in Chemical Engineering.

Almost no one does exactly what their degree trained them to do, these days. A degree to an employer normally only tells them that you finished 4 years of classes and are smart. Thats it. It's just bonus when your degree somewhat applies to the job.
 
Originally posted by: Codewiz
Originally posted by: dabuddha
Originally posted by: Codewiz
Finally a job offer. Graduated last May. After about 2000 resumes distributed. I finally got a job offer.

When I started my Computer Science degree, I never thought it would have been this tough. Almost took exactly a year to finally land something.

I only had 2 interviews offered in that year. One company said I was over qualified for a help desk position. The other is a government job programming that I landed.

If it wasn't for one of my friends mentioning my skills to his boss I would have never gotten the offer. My only advice is to ask your friends to keep an eye out for ya. Without contacts in a company, you are just another number to them. My only friend in the computer field got me the job.

Now I just have to pass a drug test. No eating the bread at Fat's Cafe. Too many poppy seeds.

Oh yeah and I have to get Top Secret Security Clearance. Hopefully that shouldn't be a problem.
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great congrats! Which department are you working under?
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Navy. I will be a civilian employee.
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Cool. i've been lookin for a civilian job on the local AFB, but no luck. Just found out on thursday that the project i'm working on at my company is closing, so i have 60 days to find something new.

congrats.
 
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