<p>After reading this thread, some questions/advice:</p>
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<li><p>Your college transcript would tell the hiring manager a lot of what he needed to know about your technical ability. The phone interview comes next and it tells him something about your verbal skills. The in peson interview tells the hiring manager several things. But I was always most interested at the in person interview to find out the “works well with others” part (ie. the “all I needed to know, I learned in kindergarden” concept) as this doesn’t come out in your transcripts and even on the phone interview. If you are making it to the in person interview but getting no job offers, the “works well with others” is where you might start to look at.</p></li>
<li><p>If you were dressing in a suit when the typical office attire is business casual, then you tend to look a bit pompous. This would be a sign to me that you might be a little to full of yourself and not (drum roll again) “work well with others”. You can be the smartest guy in the world but if you can’t work as a team member, then you are of no use to the company. Engineering is always a team thing.</p></li>
<li><p>Check the social web sites; make sure there are no pictures/references to you drinking/ doing drugs/ etc. Companies may not check you tax status but they will check Facebook, etc. Companies are not looking to hire what they thing will become problem enployees, no matter what other skills they bring to the table.</p></li>
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<p>I believe you should <em>ALWAYS</em> wear a suit on a job interview unless there are clear, widely known expectations for attire and a suit would seem overtly out of place (e.g. interviewing for a cashier job at Target or Starbucks). Even then - I’ve seen people interview in suits for the jobs (and they tend to be most successful at getting them!).</p>
<p>A top HR person at a very large company once said to me, “Who do you think a manager or her company prefers: an employee who is overprepared or underprepared?” “Overpreprared,” I answered. “So why wouldn’t they prefer an employee who is overdressed rather than underdressed?” </p>
<p>OP, have you ever asked your friend who runs the company you are volunteering for to hire you for pay? If he won’t, ask why not. He may be the best person to explain why you are not getting job offers.</p>
<p>I would also think that it should be fairly evident in your interviews that you don’t have the responsibilities of a paid position even if you are not explicitly calling yourself a volunteer. You talk a lot in an interview about what you do every day at work and what your responsibilities are, and generally for a volunteer, that is going to be different and it will come across. If you think they’re only finding out from reading your application, I would guess that your interview answers are making them think there’s a disconnect or making them think you’re being misleading. It’s highly unlikely that what you’re doing is indistinguishable from paid positions – and if that is the case, you need to have a serious talk with your friend.</p>
<p>For the people here who do a lot of hiring: it sounds like the OP working as a volunteer is probably illegal unless the friend’s “company” is a non-profit. If you saw somebody listing their volunteer work for something was explicitly a company on their resume, would you respond differently to that than if it was clearly a non-profit? Would you recommend that the OP try to work with their friend to reframe this as an internship?</p>