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Graduate dilemma

  • 16-04-2009 11:59pm
    #1
    spideog7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I'm putting this here in the hope of getting a point of view specific to engineering. I might have the opportunity to do an internship in the US and given the current climate it seems like a great opportunity. It doesn't pay well but I'll be able to live by it.

    The only problem is it's completely software, hardcore computer science type stuff. I know I'm able for that and I have a good bit of programming experience but I'm an electronics graduate primarily interested in hardware and hoping to get into the power electronics and energy side of things. I have no other real opportunities it seems (I have one or two phone interviews but nothing else) although I have applied to lots of great companies. I'd hate to miss out on another opportunity more in line with where I want to go, to do this, but I'd rather do it than be on the dole.

    My question to engineers is; would I be at a disadvantage (i.e. pigeon-holing myself-bearing in mind that it is only a year) if I went for this opportunity, or is any experience good experience ?

    Regards,


Comments

  • #2
    DJDC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 365 ✭✭DJDC


    I'd go for it. International experience and interesting area. This recession has been particualry tough on graduate positions, especially in Ireland. I estimate that maybe only 10% of the thousands of technicans and engineers graduating from Irish unis and IT's this year will get decent graduate engineering jobs with a good salary and career progression. The other 90% will either go int non-graduate jobs or onto postgrads which in a lot of cases, add little value and merely delay having to face reality. Unfortunately, with many multinationals not hiring and little indigineous enterprise, the Irish economy does not have sufficient opportunities for the thousands of aforementioned students. That has always been the case but the problem has significantly increased this year.


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