<p>I have recently done b.tech and i am looking for job. It is very hard to found job. Please help me.</p>
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<p>At most engineering programs, having a GPA above 3.5 would make you one of the best students in the school, probably in line for graduating with honors. </p>
<p>I certainly agree that if you graduate with honors, you will probably do well. But obviously not everybody will graduate with honors. In fact, the vast majority won’t. What happens to them?</p>
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<p>How is that an ‘even worse’ outcome? Given that the overwhelming majority of those who attended graduate school were ‘forced’ to go to a highly respectable graduate school, with the great bulk going to Berkeley itself, and I think that’s actually one of the most impressive outcomes I have ever seen. After all, it’s not as if the vast majority were ‘forced’ to attend some 4th tier grad schools. Surely plenty of people in the world wouldn’t mind one bit in being ‘forced’ to attend Berkeley for graduate school.</p>
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<p>Similar to the sentiment of my post above, over 40% of Berkeley ME graduate went on to graduate school, with the overwhelming majority of them attending high ranked programs - the vast bulk of them returning to Berkeley itself. This, frankly, is nothing but a stellar outcome for Berkeley’s ME undergraduate program. It’s hard to feel sorry for somebody who is ‘forced’ to attend a graduate engineering program at Berkeley or even at a lower UC. Frankly, I’d much rather do that than take some dead-end job.</p>
<p>sakky, it is no use arguing with NegativeSlope. He/she has a long history of coming on here and misusing statistics and whining and moaning about the state of the engineering industry as a result of his/her own difficulty finding a job in civil engineering, one of the hardest hit fields by the recession.</p>
<p>I think any of us reasonable people can probably tell that the states posted at Berkeley are far from dire.</p>
<p>Boneh3ad, NegativeSlope’s posting actually (ironically) served to improve my opinion of the Berkeley engineering program. I’m quite impressed that, at least in CEE and ME, Berkeley permitted so many of its undergrads to stay for graduate studies.</p>
<p>To echo most sentiments on this board, as long as you have a 3.0+ and have done internships. You’re typically sitting pretty. Most people who didn’t get jobs didn’t even try or didn’t try very hard for internships and also waited a long time to even start the job search. (aka started around April/May and whined that they didn’t hear back from employers a week later. Yes, it takes them a good couple months to process resumes. Yes, you do need to put yourself out there and search)</p>
<p>The Comp Sci industry is booming now. They’re getting beautiful offers of at least 80k with full on benefits. A lot of my EECS/CS friends are getting multiple offers right and left.</p>
<p>As much as I hated studying for engineering, it was def the right choice because it enables me to do what I actually wanted to do in my career.</p>
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<p>To be fair, not everybody is going to land a 3.0+ GPA. Plenty of students won’t. It is fair to wonder what happens to them.</p>
<p>Is it possible to get hired as an engineer in a tech company with a GPA below 3.00? I am hearing engineers with below a 3.00 GPA have job prospects equivalent to someone who aren’t engineers and don’t have advance degrees.</p>
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<p>Depends on supply and demand.</p>
<p>If you have a major with either experience/emphasis in a certain high-demand area, then it’s possible that a company will hire someone with a sub-3.0 GPA.</p>
<p>Just wanted to chime in and support what several posters have mentioned about the importance of internships in helping land a full time job post graduation. My son was fortunate enough to get an internship in biomedical research and was told that close to 50% of the his employer’s regular full time hires are former interns. The company he works for is starting younger and younger “finding” their future employees. He has an internship as a freshman whereas a few years ago they only took Juniors and Seniors. They are now even wading into the high school pool.</p>
<p>As we all know Engineering jobs come in cycles. In our great grand parents times they said to “get a job in plastics,” in our grand parents time it was “get a job in aerospace,” in our parents it was “get a job in electronics.” </p>
<p>What does the future hold and how will YOUR engineering degree get you a job? I think that is the big question mixed in with the economic layoff cycles that have been going on in this industry since the beginning.</p>
<p>“Engineering and CS jobs are pretty hard to find. First you have to get to a gas station or a telephone or something, and buy a newspaper or make some telephone calls. You’re talking dollars here for the paper of the phone call, and then there’s the manpower of reading the wanted ads or vibrating the old larynx…”</p>
<p>AuburnMathTutuor, this post made me laugh out loud! I absolutely sympathize with students looking for a job right now and understand that it is not easy. However my son will be starting college and majoring in engineering in the fall and I have visions of him graduating and having the attitude of “…I actually have to look for a job!” Of course hopefully he will have matured in 4 years, but I’m saving this post just in case.</p>
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<p>Being missed in this discussion is that people are involved. A candidate isn’t just a series of stats, GPA being the one most cited. A candidate is a person, and the hiring manager also. Human factors are very important in the hiring process. Candidates need to be likeable. I’m going to be spending a lot of time with the people I hire, I want like them, or atl east not dis-like them. </p>
<p>I want them to have good communication skills. Candidates need to be able to sell themselves. If it was just all about the stats there would be no need for an interview.</p>
<p>If you have a degree, decent stats and experience and you still aren’t getting jobs it means you don’t know how to sell yourself. Engineers are notoriously bad at this, especially new college grads. I submit that a good talker, with a friendly personality, and a 2.8 GPA. Will get a job much quicker than a person with 3.4 GPA, who is introverted, grumpy or non-communicative.</p>
<p>Also left out of this argument is, what’s a better alternative to Engineering? Yes it’s hard to get a job now, but it would be even harder with a business or history degree.</p>
<p>BTW the unemployment rate in silicon valley is about 5% for degreed engineers.</p>
<p>The original question about Engineering jobs being outsorced wholsale is ridiculous. Of course it happens, but not enmass to the point that there will be no engineering jobs in the US. The USA is still the world leader in technology development, and will continue to be for a long time.</p>
<p>Software is the discipline most likely to be outsourced. You can sit in front of a PC anywhere in the world and deliver your finished product easily to any other place on earth. Not true with hardware, or types of engineering where collaboration is important, like most new product development efforts. GRoups of people working together to achieve a common goal work best when they can do it face-to-face. This is why the bulk of tech development is in Silicon Valley, proximity to talent, suppliers, supporting businesses, etc. makes the process much more efficient. This infrastructure has been built up over many years and can’t be easily outsourced, or duplicated.</p>
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<p>I totally agree.</p>
<p>I think the #1 issue with many postings is that folks put WAY too much emphasis on thinking that School/GPA will sell them for their entire career and that is not the case…well at least not in the software engineering world.</p>
<p>Human factors, being a communicator, staying current with technology and overall “who can hustle the best” will be the factors that drive your career. Sure, there will be a few jobs/employers that are “all about the stats”, but those jobs will be very few compared to the vast majority.</p>
<p>Timely, relevant article on Nine Tips for Getting Hired:</p>
<p>[Nine</a> tips for getting hired | TechRepublic](<a href=“http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/career/nine-tips-for-getting-hired/3135?tag=nl.e101]Nine”>http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/career/nine-tips-for-getting-hired/3135?tag=nl.e101)</p>
<p>The focus of this article is what to do/not do in an interview.</p>
<p>Hi all… </p>
<p>I’m an incoming freshman and plan to major in either Nuclear or Chemical Engineering with the intention of applying to Med School… Which of these fields would be best in terms of job opportunities and securty in the case i don’t get into, or decide I don’t want to, go to med school? I’ve heard job placement for ChemE grads with experience and decent GPA is good?</p>
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<p>That’s funny because my friend has a job waiting for him when he graduates this year (CS). He had internships.</p>
<p>Those 9 tips are good advice. I’m often amazed by the lack of preparation by many. I don’t expect a lot from technicians, but I do from engineers. I always ask them what they know about our company, more than half know almost nothing. Didn’t bother to look at what products we make, what markets we serve, financial info, nothing.</p>
<p>My big hot button, people who don’t ask me questions. If you have no questions for me I won’t hire you, becuse it means you aren’t thinking. The interview is a 2 way street, you should want to find out what it will be like to work here, what will be expected of you. You should have many questions.</p>
<p>BUT don’t ask: How many hours will I have to work? (instead ask; What will a typical day be like?) Can I take this and that day off? (wait until after you get an offer, if you have something pre-booked). How much of a raise will I get next year? Once they make an offer then ask those touchy questions.</p>
<p>Don’t babble on an on. Answer the question then stop talking. Silence is OK.</p>
<p>Speak up, be positive and enthusiastic, not over the top, just honest positivity. Be proud of your accomplishments and don’t be afraid to share them.</p>