mid week post
Hmmm. The cascade of posts has eased. But the ones that I have been doing have been like tsunamis.
I got another rejection yesterday. Hydro sent me the official rejection letter. Despite being impressed with my experience, they couldn't offer me a job. Hmmm. I have no experience. Mixed messages I tell you. Mixed messages. But only one that matters: BUGGER OFF. It's pretty depressing to think that I couldn't even get an interview with them though. Oh well.
At least I finally got the official word to tell me what I already know.
That's right, I had work to do, and it hasn't gone away. Damn.
I got another rejection yesterday. Hydro sent me the official rejection letter. Despite being impressed with my experience, they couldn't offer me a job. Hmmm. I have no experience. Mixed messages I tell you. Mixed messages. But only one that matters: BUGGER OFF. It's pretty depressing to think that I couldn't even get an interview with them though. Oh well.
At least I finally got the official word to tell me what I already know.
That's right, I had work to do, and it hasn't gone away. Damn.
posted by BSJ-rom at 2:57 pm
7 Comments:
I heard Simon got the Hydro job. Probably because he did work experience there.
I don't think just a degree properly prepares you to be of use anyhow.
That's not the point of it Jonny. They want someone who can get through a degree because they were able to get through it, they're not after the knowledge they taught you. Though if you don't have the very basics then they won't be real happy...
Lots of people got Hydro interviews and plenty of them got Hydro jobs...
They were interviewing someone on the radio from Hydro about cloud seeding. And I think it was Rebecca the Canadian my drawing teacher.
I do Kidz Bizz with one of the cloud seeders... He flies around. Kinda cool.
Your right, if I pass my degree I should expect a job. What are the employers looking for, other than ok results? I can be the gun in CAD, but they don't all ask for that do they.
Worth considering is that guns on CAD are generally referred to as "Draftsmen". I'm trying to get a qualification as an engineer. But the line is blurred when the draftsman is doing design work.
Just as the conductor of an orchestra can also play an instrument, I think the engineer should have at least a couple of skills. At least one workshop/practical skill to some small extent, and some office/computer skills.
But when you graduate you don't have much of this, which is ok. That's why the young civil engineer plays on the bulldozer at lunch times, the mechanical engineer uses the lathe etc. You become more usefull if you can foresea the practical hicups from experience.
You are in a very large company if you only get to do pure "engineering" management. The smaller the complany the more jobs you have to do. And maybe you have to be a gun on Excel.
If I was running a small engineering office on Davey St for example, the graduate engineer would have to be a gun on CAD and Excel, and make a good coffee, and walk to the shop to get the milk. After 2 years they can have an opinion.
Post a Comment
<< Home