Im going to school for electrical engineering, does /adv/ have any tips on making my employment process go as smoothly as possible? Gif not related
send them the n word in your resume and cover letter. its avant garde and will make you stand out.
>>33678294Why are you asking about employment before you've even learnt anything? Job market will change no point in giving advice about current job market /thread
>>33678308The job market is expected to follow its current trajectory due to nothing being done to change course.
>>33678316>nothing being done to change courseI see you know nothing and yet still commented, care to explain?
>>33678294It's impossible for white people to find "jobs" now, nor is it desirable. I'm assuming you're American? Embrace the spirit of your ancestors.
>>33678325I know something and cared to comment. You should be asking me to explain what I know instead of what I don't know.
>>33678339My ancestors painted themselves blue and cannibalized each other.
>>33678362Brown?
None of you are helpful. I guess that means I should just ask a counselor instead, maybe he'll rip off more money from me without even knowing.
go to /g/ they might help you more
>>33678307Note to OP, anon is referring to "nigger" not the "Norton Thevenin Theorem". Neither will get you a job in this market but only the former will get you the LOLz
>>33678758Yeah, thanks for those kind words of inspiration, but I'm not a racist.
>>33678294Funny you should mention that, I'm older but when I was in for BSEE only about half the grads ever got an EE job, the other half went into other things like programming and never did EE stuff again. The bottom has dropped out of programming and only like 10% of BSEE new grads get programming jobs because there aren't any programming jobs anymore and everyone transfers to CS (thats what I did, I have a BSCS) Jokes on me, there's ALSO no jobs for a BSCS either, although if jobs ever come back I'd like to think I'd be first in line? Certainly they'd hire a BSCS before they'd hire a BSEE.Go to BLS website and the most optimistic unicorns fly out of my butt estimate are there's 287K EEs in the USA and growth rate might be as much as 0.75% per year over the next decade. So the government always lying means its way worse than that.According to some probably bullshit google searches, academia shits out 20K new BSEEs annually.If you plan to work about 40 years, the field of 287K EEs can adsorb about 7K new EEs per year to replace the boomers retiring. If we had no H1B invasion going on.I figure if we shut down H1B entirely (LOL no if anything they'll only increase it) there's less than a 1 in 3 chance you'll get an EE job after getting a BSEE degree.Because of immigration, there's less than a 1 in 10 chance at best you'll get an EE job.It'll vary some by fame of your local program. Stanford, MIT, Harvard grad, yeah you'll be OK. No name state U, you better learn how to be a bartender or drive a taxi if you get a BSEE. Nobody going to hire you to do EE stuff or program or much of anything.I'm not saying drop out now, but you better come up with a plan B because statistically you are not going to be doing EE stuff when you graduate.
>>33678845>I'm not saying drop out now, but you better come up with a plan B because statistically you are not going to be doing EE stuff when you graduate.Sigh. Thank GOD I didn't sign up to any classes yet, I just got done talking to an advisor. I dunno what to do then. I guess I'll just work minimum wage until I die then unfortunately. FML.
>>33678294is that the same as electrician? Find an apprenticeship/internship asap
>>33678899>I dunno what to do then.Well have some agency anon, and repeat what I did.Make a list of jobs you'd like or at least tolerate. For each career field:Figure out how many people are employed now, multiply by some percentage to see how many new hires there will be every year. Some absolute shit jobs like K12 education burn out the average teacher in only five years, and what they do the rest of their life is someone elses problem. Others like medical doctor, if you make it, you got a job for life unless you go into management.Add some corrections for BS govt predictions about growth or shrinkage of the field, those people historically have been morons but sometimes their advice isn't that bad.Add some more corrections for BS govt policies about immigration, some careers are highly at risk others not at all.Add a correction factor for "the effect of AI" or some nonsense.Then compare it to the last couple years graduation rate to see the odds of getting hired to do the work after you graduate.If academia creates about 20K BSEE per year in the USA, and there's at most "maybe" jobs for 3K to 6K american grads, thats going to be a big problem if you took out a mortgage sized student loan for a job that statistically you're just not going to get. And the backup field for EE used to be going into programming which is also dead. Other jobs may be better odds. Maybe other jobs are even worse.
What are you looking to specialize in? Do you want to do field work? Have a desk job designing shit? Power electronics? Process Control? Industrial Automation? Mechatronics? Honestly you're better off starting as a tech first then after a couple of years when you're really good go back to school and get your degree which will put you in an elite category of engineers that make the big bucks.
Get a college approved internship
>>33678294internshipspart-time and summer jobsnetworkingTake every opportunity to meet people actually working in the field. When the day comes, they just might be able to offer you a job
