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Electrical Engineering Student Looking For Ways to Improve Resume
EEVblog:
Here you go, just for you!
coppice:
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Most employers care a lot about your degree, as you won't get past the barriers set up by the HR department without that degree. Your experience means little to people in HR. They just don't understand it. One of the great things about internships and other things that build personal relationships between you and actual engineers is they can often bypass the HR barrier. That said, few other types of course count for much. You take them to gain a skill, not a qualification. Once you get past the HR barrier, and have your CV in the hands of someone you might work for, the things you have done count a lot. Not only because they are an indication of your character and abilities in the lead up to getting an interview, but because if you don't much on that list, you just won't have much of interest to talk about in an interview.
If you have not been able to get an internship, open source projects are probably a good substitute these days. Most of these projects are either entirely software or mostly software, but that's also true of what most electronics graduates do these days. There are open source projects in areas like SDR that are far more electronic engineering than software, but the work you do requires no hardware to be constructed, no test instruments, and only a modest amount of ready made hardware to be bought.
yashrk:
This year I completed my 3 years as an EE "professional" and I started getting similar questions from my college juniors, so I wrote following blog post on things I did to get placed in a good job.
In India there are truck loads of engineers passing each year yet companies have open positions which they are unable to fill due to lack of good engineers (I have shared few articles in the blog which are talking about this if you want to know more). There has been this disconnect between the industry and engineering education that most of the recent graduates of these engineering colleges are not employable. Though we can't change the education systems on our own we can do few things to stand out.
https://www.yashkudale.com/electronics/how-i-landed-my-first-engineering-job/
In the post I talk about
1. Working on Personals Projects
2. Find out what you like to work on
3. Network with like-minded people
4. Get paid to learn
5. Improve your communication skills
These are certainly heavily inspired from Dave's past videos but the blog post gives real life examples of how I implemented these things and I have provided tips and links for each of the above mentioned things. Have a look and hope it helps you.
And Dave if you are reading this thank you for educating me about "Screw You Money" it has been a life saver during this pandemic :phew:. Thanks a lot!! ;D
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