Your degree and your career aspirations - how do they match up?

I'm studying Computer Science (I almost did Maths as a joint honours, but would have missed too much comp sci), and my field of interest is also Data Science. I've been looking at possible social media applications, with the intention to build my own tech start-up after my Master's degree.

It would be interesting to here what you think about the industry and where you think a good field of employment is for people with our skill set.

Degree: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Jobs/Careers of Interest: Software Engineering (May do an Msc in Artificial Intelligence or just specialise as part of my Masters) / Finance (Investment Banking if I decide to sell out lol)
Graduate Salary Expected: 35-40k for both I think? With added bonuses for IB

You'd be on the money for software engineering within an IB. But actual front office IB is £50k + bonus.

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I assume the engineering roles in the proper tech companies (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook etc) are more then?

Wouldn't u consider a villain role? :P

The UK job market is going to nail some people quite hard...

The issue is that you are competing against the best part of 100,000 applicants though (if not more), from the UK and abroad. Yes, if you are in the top 2% of those applicants you are going to get the job, but the overwhelming majority of people applying are going to be thoroughly disappointed.

It's great that you and others are gunning for it and are determined to get there, but it is still a pretty narrow field to get into no matter how determined you are.




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what do you mean?

People have high expectations of employment straight away post-degree, when the reality is that there are very few graduate jobs.

You sure? 200k grads in grad jobs sounds like a fair amount to me: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/11943223/Record-number-of-graduates-in-work-report-reveals.html

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Not all 200k are in graduate jobs - 68.2% of that number are in jobs that require a degree.

Your connections/knowledge via your mother's experience will undoubtedly help. Not everyone has that knowledge or connections though - you sounds quite the exception.

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Definitely, well aware of the competition! It's interesting, I'm in quite a tight group of friends all aiming for high finance roles, etc. With my help and the help between themselves, they all managed to gain internship and full time positions at each respective firm. Even people on TSR that have messaged me for CV help etc, have messaged me months later to say they've landed a job

The trouble with using 'top 2%' as a qualifier is that 90% of those applicants won't have optimisied their CVs nor would they have taken the care to iron out any obvious blunders. I've seen this first hand when I helped my mother (she was in HR at a decent firm) sift through a couple bunches of grad CVs; the ones which didn't fit the criteria were very easy to spot.

Thanks for the dose of (non-sarcastic/patronising) realism to the thread though, it's always welcome.

That's very kind and selfless of you to help people out like that