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8 months since graduation and still looking for a job
changbroot:
Hi,
Sorry if I'm in the wrong section, but I need some advice/suggestions as to my problem.
It's been 8 months now that I've graduated with a Nuclear Engineering degree and still no luck finding a job (in Canada or elsewhere). I also have a 3-year diploma in Electronics Communications Technology and even I've been applying to Technologist (which I'm) and Technician jobs related to nuclear industry. I even paid the so called pros to rewrite my resume to make sure I'm not missing anything and still can't get a lousy phone call despite applying to tons of jobs. LinkedIn and all connections didn't help either. My patience is running thin and I'm really frustrated.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
PS: In the mean time, I'm "Ubering" and keeping busy with building a quadcopter, radiation detector, trying to get a Java SE 8 Associate Certification and learning AutoCAD.
tolstoy:
Have you looked at laborer or facilities positions? Not nearly as exciting but some utilities used to use these positions for first hires and for training. I know of one utility where all management hires go through the facilities supervisor position. It's a great place to learn to herd cats.
Where is your nuclear engineering degree from? Unless it's from a recognized and bigger school it might not be helping. Look at it from a hiring manager's view - if I have two folks with engineering degrees and one went to MIT and the other has a certificate from somewhere I've never heard of then it's an easy pick. It in know way means anyone is smarter than anyone else but one person has a proven record. On that note I'm a huge fan of certification. Get any that you can. It's the same scenario. Two people apply. One is certified and one is not. Everything else being equal I choose the certification knowing that the cert holder had to prove they could do the work or perform the calcs somewhere along the line.
I would also advise that you spread your net wide. You can chase down all the controversy you want to on this site but nuclear has been waning for a couple of decades with no evidence of resurgence. Every plant that closes pushes a couple hundred very qualified people into a very limited workspace. Many of these folks will take any job for any pay in any location.
As you're already learning - getting your foot in the door is the hardest step.
SloGlo:
yeah, watt tolstoy said. maybe tri an udder engineering discipline for entry work.... like a civil engineering oar construction. yew could apply to the nuclear industry vendor companies, they use lots of engineers (two many imho) and have grate gateways to utility positions. then there are the job shops witch will place engineers on any site that pays for them.
changbroot:
--- Quote from: tolstoy on Dec 28, 2015, 07:47 ---Where is your nuclear engineering degree from?
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Thanks tolstoy. I have graduated from an accredited and recognized university in Ontario, Canada. University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) is one of the favorite universities for most employers out here in Ontario. Also, I haven't applied to those kinds of positions and sometimes I reluctantly do apply to Mechanical, Process, Systems and other kind of engineering. I don't know if it's just me or are there other engineers in a same situation. I'm beginning to regret my degree and should have gone for CISCO, Microsoft, Java and Citrix certification. They are cheaper and there are tons of jobs.
Frank Cable:
EXACTLY what is your degree? In the United States many Universities offer actual Mechanical Engineering degrees and a "easier" Mechanical Engineering Technology degree. Do you have an actual engineering degree or a engineering technology degree? Obviously substitute mechanical for any other discipline.
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