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Originally posted by Mandrick_v yeah, well, the key is experience, thats for sure...weather you have it or not, it has to be on a resume... Well, i think the best way is to get yourself into qualifications required from job postings and spend as much time as possible reading. Spend 3 hours a day applying for jobs and another 5 hrs a day reading. Once you know, you can pretend you have experience, you can come up with projects to put on your resume and prove your knowledge on interviews. Having no experience on a resume won't give you any interviews and therefore chances on getting a job are down to nill. Put as many keywords on resume from your field as possible, make sure you have an understanding of every keyword so you can pass through phone interviews. Those keywords are always listed on job postings in your field, use them. Job search is a simple match of keywords. Employer is looking for flash, action script, ajax, java script, html, photoshop, illustrator graphic designer, to get that job you must have flash, action script, ajax, java script, html, photoshop, illustrator graphic designer on your resume. Thats simple. Weather you know all the things listed are up to you and its in your best interest to know as much as you can, start home projects to get brief knowledge, go through tutorials, etc. While at university you could always work part time using "keywords". Good luck guys.

i know what you are saying..

my resume is totally geared toward my qualifications that would apply to a specific job. I have attended workshops to help me with my resume and cover letters.

I get call backs and interest, only to get called back agian 2 days later telling me "you know what on second thought, you dont have enough experience"

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Originally posted by monishb get into a feild of similar experience or consider joining one with who needs one and then move laterally.

yeah thats what i am thinking of doing

WOW...this is really great..

To get such great feedback from people that i have never met....it just tells you alot about all of you guys!!

so much for that MTLTA > TOTA thread...BS if you ask me!

This may sound silly, but if you're really having an impossible time finding a job, you might want to try just volunteering somewhere in the industry for a few months. Think of it as an investment in human capital.

I have some friends who did this in the IT sector, one of them started off by offering 3 months of free work if the company would pay for some certification, they accepted, and after that everything started picking up. Another friend didn't make that kind of deal, but the company he volunteered for decided to hire him full time after a few months.

This would really only be a last resort, and personally I'd sooner relocate than do that, but don't discount it if you feel like you're wasting endless time searching.

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Originally posted by DigiNut This may sound silly, but if you're really having an impossible time finding a job, you might want to try just volunteering somewhere in the industry for a few months. Think of it as an investment in human capital.

I agree with you 100%. I have gotten VERY lucky with companies by volunteering with them first.

just ask (beg) for an internship, summer job, or volunteer as digitboy mentionned.

Telecommunication EE is the hardest bitch to find work in, there's not that much of RF development in Canada and everything is slowly going IP.

Have you thought of getting some certification in the meantime?

P.s. make sure your resume is TOP NOTCH, a hiring person usually takes 15 seconds tops to check it out before heading to the garbage.

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Originally posted by malek just ask (beg) for an internship, summer job, or volunteer as digitboy mentionned. Telecommunication EE is the hardest bitch to find work in, there's not that much of RF development in Canada and everything is slowly going IP. Have you thought of getting some certification in the meantime? P.s. make sure your resume is TOP NOTCH, a hiring person usually takes 15 seconds tops to check it out before heading to the garbage.

You are right about the RF development.


I really don't know what to go get certified in. Well I mean I want to know more on PLC/HMI ( either Rockwell or Siemens) but taking a course and actual work that you do once in the industry is not really the same thing.

just bumpin this thread since i am still looking

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Originally posted by Cro_Addict You are right about the RF development. I really don't know what to go get certified in. Well I mean I want to know more on PLC/HMI ( either Rockwell or Siemens) but taking a course and actual work that you do once in the industry is not really the same thing.

cisco certification?

security certification?

did you apply at the governement?

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Originally posted by malek cisco certification? security certification? did you apply at the governement?

cisco and security is IT.....

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Originally posted by Cro_Addict cisco and security is IT.....

nah nah, higher level cisco and security is certainly not IT...

but don't kid yourself, no EE ingeneer in telecom will work outside or far from IT.

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try consulting...you could get hardware engineering consulting. If you look for the top consulting firms in electrical engineering, i'm sure you could apply for those. Those are easier to get into and less painfull. OR, try IT consulting..thats what i'm into...that'll help you out. I'm in it and I love it!

Oh and by the way, everybody needs an engineer...work at the Guv, you could fix their lighting and sound issues they keep having.. (hah, that was a joke)

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