Re: Need advice: want to enter the Embedded field

"Isaac Bosompem" <x86asm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am not the greatest academic :), but I would say I am fairly good at
stuff and have somewhat of an interest in it.

Do you guys actually take the students with the highest marks? Or is it
simply a myth that has been circulating amongst my peers?

Speaking for myself, I'm more interested in attitude and desire to improve
than marks. I've interviewed academics with high marks who had turned off,
and non-academics who showed interest, enthusiasm, self-motivation and
aptitude - guess which interest me most ;).

Academia and engineering are different pressures. When I see a CV for
someone who's done well academically *because* of self-motivation etc, I'm
interested. High marks are a part of it... not all of it.

Steve
http://www.fivetrees.com


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