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Concur with the other poster here: you are going about the process backwards. You need to figure out what specialty you're aiming for and shape your coursework toward that. You say you have a BS in Comp. Eng., which would point towards a career doing hardware oriented things like embedded systems, device driver / OS development, or IoT, yet you list a bunch of end-user oriented software as your project work. If you're lacking in "the more technical knowledge of things like circuit design and pcb diagrams", the first thing people are going to wonder is "Well, why didn't you go back and fill in those gaps? What's your actual passion?"

Bear in mind also that your Comp. Eng. background puts you in a odd place in the job market. Look carefully at the HN "Who's hiring?" posts for this month and preceding months. 90% of them are for web stuff/CRUD apps and most of the rest are for mobile or desktop apps. That's not to say you can't get hired for those positions but pretty much _none_ of them will make use of your specialized education. If you want to avoid that route (and once you start going down it, it gets hard to break out), then start figuring out what you want to do professionally for the rest of your life, start looking at job postings for engineers at companies that do said things, and start shaping your coursework to fit those job postings. And since, as you mention, you don't have any real work experience, start thinking about getting some internships under your belt immediately.

parent ThrowawayR2 8 years ago

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