Re: Need advice: want to enter the Embedded field


"Tim Wescott" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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* Companies shy away from new grads because at first most of them aren't
worth the paper their degree is printed on. Engineering degrees will
serve you well to the end of your career, but they sure don't help in
the first two years. So do something real. Start reading Servo,
Circuit Cellar and Embedded Systems Programming magazine. Pick
something you've always wanted to do and make it work with an embedded
processor. Then put it on your resume under 'Experience' even if it
wasn't for money.

I agree with Tim and would add that I when I look at a candidate, I rate
interesting projects higher than university degrees. I don't care if you did
it in school, at home, or at another job; I need to know you can follow
through on the details and make something work. Repeating Tim: "do something
real".

Bob


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