Re: Need advice: want to enter the Embedded field

Hello Bob,


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".


Yep, that's how I landed my very first job about 20 years ago. In a field (medical ultrasound) that I had not even heard about and certainly didn't have the foggiest idea about until a couple days before the interview. IOW, when I saw the ad and mailed my application.

I brought a big binder full of schematics and photos of my hobby and university projects. About 50 or so. Lots of folks at the university said that would be stupid and ridiculous. Luckily I did not believe any of them. One of the interviewers was really interested in those schematics. Later I found out they had already put my name on a meeting agenda before I had even accepted the job offer and they had decided that I am going to finish their beamformer front-end board.

Regards, Joerg

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