getting a job

<p>i was just speculating on the future, and came to a dilemma. say i just graduated with a bs in mechanical engineering. do i just go on monster.com and look for jobs in engineering or what?</p>

<p>Your school should have thousands of hundreds of companies that come to school to recruit mechanical engineers. Call your career services department.</p>

<p>In fact, the quality of the career services department and the number of companies that hire should be one of the major factors in choosing a school. But that seems to get lost.</p>

<p>Yeah, check and see if your school has a career fair. They have on here at UT-Austin every fall and I think spring. There are literally hundreds of companies including; NASA, Lockheed, GE, GM, Boeing, ect looking for fresh recruits to snatch up.</p>

<p>so there seem to be a good outlook for bs mech-engineers</p>

<p>Precision: That would depend on the market and the economy. When I went to UCLA (last year) and attended the career fair the majority of the companies were looking for Computer Science with a few EEs and MEs scattered here and there.</p>

<p>yea… career fair + your college of engineering’s online job board </p>

<p>make a visit to your engineering career services at your school they’re usually pretty helpful</p>

<p>career fairs are a biggy…show up early (they have limited interview spots available) and keep talking to them until they put you on their interview list : )</p>

<p>It appears to me that you are applying to schools now so that this is a concern for the future. In general, you want to network, go after internships, have job experiences (part-time or summers and it looks like you already have that) and jump on opportunities in your field. Your department may have an email list server where professors post departmental job openings, research assistant jobs or jobs that they get from local companies. The career center is an obvious place to get services. You should work with them on putting together a resume and getting interview preparation services.</p>

<p>You can also network with people that you know at home, friends, relatives, etc. to see if they know of people or companies with openings in your field.</p>