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Engineering Abroad (Electronics and Computer)

  • 11-03-2008 9:31am
    #1
    folan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭


    Hey all

    What with my current job winding down, and yee old job search not throwing up any majorly interesting prospects, I have been kinda playing with the idea of leaving the lovely green isle for (hehe) possibly greener pastures.

    Basically, I'm wondering how people have found foreign job markets, in particular the UK, the US and Canada, or Australia and New Zealand?

    I know in some of them, civil and structural are pretty in demand, like Australia seems to be, but how about for computer engineers? or electronics. I can sell myself as an electronics engineer.


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  • #2
    madnirvana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 129 ✭✭madnirvana


    Are civil engineers really in demand in australia???

    how are the graduate jobs like.... Work and pay wise?


  • #3
    Black_Knight
    Moderators Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭Black_Knight


    Are we to assume your not an Electronic Engineer but just like the thoughts of it?

    Im studying Electronic and Computer Engineering at NUI Galway at the mo, 3rd year. From what ive heard there should be plenty of jobs for us here in the green isle when we graduate. But then again, they cant exactly tell us were in a dead end market.

    If Electronics is your game:pac:, Ireland might not be so bad and a few years. Fingers crossed anyways, my futures riding on it!


  • #4
    folan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭folan


    I did a similar course but in NUIM. Im technically a computer engineer, but as im sure you know, theres alot of eletronics backing on that. So ive been working as an electronics engineer (kinda-i wont bother explaining) this year, but is always hard to get a job on 1 years experience. (was on a contract, trying to bypass the graduate program stuff)

    There are jobs, Black_Knight, but definately not as many as they told me, and the market shows trends of slowing down. So I'm looking at maybe a change of scenery.

    madnirvana, try to find a bit of info on it on the IEI site, they do yearly surveys on engineering salaries in ireland, or look for graduate jobs on some recuitment websites if you want to see what the average is. The work is the same as any engineering job, at least where i am, but you do a bit more training and less core (or really important) projects until your established in the company.


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