Re: Need advice: want to enter the Embedded field

Amir <ushakil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
indefinitely for any employer here (am an asylee). With my MBA, I also
need experience for that kind of job so I need to have a career in

You're sending out mixed messages. You claim a 'passion' for embedded,
but clearly want to do something else. Employers look at an MBA and assume
three things -

(1) you've got your eyes on the boardroom rather than the lab, and will
job-hop to get there.
(2) you've got heavy salary demands
(3) your focus is on getting out of engineering and into management ASAP.

technology before I can qualify for a management position.

And here you confirm your mixed message again. You seem to regard
engineering as a bridge to getting into general management, rather than
a worthwhile career in its own right.

I'm afraid I've interviewed many candidates who send out the same
messages you do - you can't fake an interest in this kind of work
through the close and sustained pressure of an interview by a real
techie; you have to be able to talk the talk. You might get through
first interviews by gullible HR people, but the moment you're locked
in a room with a couple of grizzled veterans they'll see right
through you.

resume isnt perfect, but I believe my passion for the embedded field
would help me get a job no matter what.

If you had a passion, you'd be doing something in the field already in
your own time - there are plenty of cheap eval boards and cheap or free
toolchains; what have you *built*? - what do you have that can
demonstrate your "passion".

Your posting was rather odd; I could've replaced "embedded" by "COBOL
programming", "tax law", "plumbing", "orthodontics" or indeed any
other specialised discipline and it would've read exactly the same.
There was no evidence of any actual interest in embedded in it.

pete
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