Electronic Engineering Graduate

kevin306

one year left in my honours degree course and just wondering what the job opportunities are like at the minute. Is it tough for graduates to get into employment?

spideog7

kevin306 wrote: »

one year left in my honours degree course and just wondering what the job opportunities are like at the minute. Is it tough for graduates to get into employment?

Depends on what you want to do but in general I would say job opportunities are not too bad.

kevin306

spideog7 wrote: »

Depends on what you want to do but in general I would say job opportunities are not too bad.

Suppose the ideal situation would be to get into a multinational company e.g analog intel and the likes. Just don't see that many jobs being advertised only ones with 5 years experience

Knifey Spoony

kevin306 wrote: »

Suppose the ideal situation would be to get into a multinational company e.g analog intel and the likes. Just don't see that many jobs being advertised only ones with 5 years experience

I graduated last year, but had my job sorted before I had started the final exams. But, in the last few weeks of the course it was nearly everyday that we were getting emails about job opportunities, most of them from electronics companies. I also think that there are maybe one or two people from the class that didn't have a job or at least had a plan of what they were going to (travel, masters, Phd, etc....) by graduation. So, I think that the electronics industry is in a good shape.

I would say though, that this year Analog have really cut back on the amount of graduate engineers that they are taking on this year.

bren2001

I'm just finishing up a degree in Mechatronics so I get all of the job offers for Electronics. There is an endless amount of them that we get. I had a summer placement last year who offered me a job but I am looking to go on and do further studies. I met them a few weeks back and they were saying there is an lots of jobs but no electronic graduates to fill them (1.1 and 2.1 graduates they were looking at).

There seems to be very little problem getting a job in the electronics sector, decent starting pays of 33k for most jobs too.

Redisle

bren2001 wrote: »

I'm just finishing up a degree in Mechatronics so I get all of the job offers for Electronics. There is an endless amount of them that we get. I had a summer placement last year who offered me a job but I am looking to go on and do further studies. I met them a few weeks back and they were saying there is an lots of jobs but no electronic graduates to fill them (1.1 and 2.1 graduates they were looking at).

There seems to be very little problem getting a job in the electronics sector, decent starting pays of 33k for most jobs too.

Where exactly have you seen starting salaries of 33k?

I'm looking at the moment (final year eee) and the best I have seen so far is 30k from Analog.

P.M if you like as I am curious.

kevin306

bren2001 wrote: »

I'm just finishing up a degree in Mechatronics so I get all of the job offers for Electronics. There is an endless amount of them that we get. I had a summer placement last year who offered me a job but I am looking to go on and do further studies. I met them a few weeks back and they were saying there is an lots of jobs but no electronic graduates to fill them (1.1 and 2.1 graduates they were looking at).

There seems to be very little problem getting a job in the electronics sector, decent starting pays of 33k for most jobs too.

Thanks for the feedback lads, that's great at least I know the study and hard-work will be worthwhile not like most of my other mates doing courses and knowing full well they will have to go abroad to get work when they graduate.. Just a quick question regarding summer placement. Where would be my best bet to try and get in, for the summer and would you be getting paid. Just asking because I always have work in the summer but would like to get a bit of experience but if not getting paid I couldn't do it.

longhalloween

Redisle wrote: »

Where exactly have you seen starting salaries of 33k?

I'm looking at the moment (final year eee) and the best I have seen so far is 30k from Analog.

P.M if you like as I am curious.

I'd also like that info. Finishing third year now but I have my feelers out jobs...

spideog7

I graduated in 2009 and there wasn't many jobs around at that time, almost all of the lads left to go somewhere else (myself included). A few of them are trickling back now and I got offered a job at home myself last year. The salary still isn't great from what I've seen (although 33K starting isn't bad if you can get it). And I heard a few stories of lads that graduated with me who are earning more than me now at home.

That said there'll always be outliers, the lads earning 22K aren't shouting about it, I wouldn't expect much more than 27K starting out.

bren2001

Redisle wrote: »

Where exactly have you seen starting salaries of 33k?

I'm looking at the moment (final year eee) and the best I have seen so far is 30k from Analog.

P.M if you like as I am curious.

We get emails from the careers service almost daily in DCU. Some of the 33k jobs (off the top of my head) are Xillux, Jaguar and MSD.

Pretty much what I can see in the jobs market is a lot of jobs if you are coming out with a 2.1 or 1.1.