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Great advice everyone. My main hesitation with volunteering was, as most said, selling short my true capability to a profit-making company. I think I'll look more into "non-profit" engineering societies and try to offer up what I can. And @monkeydog, I agree that I should not be limiting...

Hi Folks, I was wondering if anyone has volunteered in the past or is currently volunteering to establish some experience in a specific engineering role/discipline/company? Coming out of school with not much but an B.Eng and a slap on the back, I've applied to numerous paid positions without...

@ HgTX, I agree completely. With this aggressive interviewing strategy in mind, I would approach it in a diplomatic manner without getting to defensive but also maintaining confidence. I'm sure they don't mean it personally but rather just want to see if you can overlook the emotional aspect...

I graduated with a 2.9/4.33...My tactic is to leave it unsaid but to draw attention to the many A's I got in all my design courses, the competitive team projects we won, and other relevant highlights of my school/employments. I'm a good guy who tried hard but made some sacrifices through school...

I disagree with this type of interviewing (particularly in engineering), but fact of the matter is that it is advantageous to the employer to see who will "keep their cool", and who will break under the pressure.

Just to clarify my previous post, I think professional photos are okay as long as you are in a position to be physically recognized, which is not my case.

For the record, I'd never submit a "glamour-shot" photo of myself or post anything of the sort in an online portfolio...I'm not hideous by any means, but spending time looking good for the camera are something that should be omitted from an engineering portfolio, in my opinion. By the same...

Thanks for the replies everyone, I am pleased to hear that it would not be entirely out of the question to make up a website (of appropriate content of course), although I am having second thoughts about advertising it as planned at the moment. My original intention was to produce a hard-copy...

Hi Folks, Being a recent undergrad of engineering, I have been working on an online portfolio of my academic work and a few personal projects (but majorly academic). My hope is to draw prospective employers to see some more detailed examples of my work, and it would be a non-profit website. It...

Thanks RB and JMW, hopefully I can make my mind up by next Fall!

Hi JMW and thanks for the response. I am well aware that space is about to skyrocket due to private money and organizations getting involved, and I definitely want to land a job in the space industry eventualy, my main concern is that I might be better equipped to do this with an aircraft...

Hi everyone, just joined you forum (actually just realized it existed a few days ago) and can say browsing the forums has brought me a lot of insight and assurance as to why I am in this field. Currently I am in my third year of aerospace engineering at Ryerson University (don't worry I'm not...