Any graduates in here that have managed to land a job in EE?

I think i've run out of options to choose except complete the HND and then the Honours degree top up after that. People here have recommended that I am to apply for internships, I've searched around but their all up north, nothing local to me.

It seems that everyone goes quiet once you ask how many people got a job in EE after they graduate. People keep on giving all these suggestions and I basically try all of them yet never seem to get anywhere, just don't know what to do and what's worse is that we are kept in the dark about career progression, I think that's for a good reason though, I wonder how many people would get onto any higher education if they released the statistics about how many people got jobs at the end of it, I've been asking these kinds of questions for years, no response really and no advice from anyone that has actually got a job after they graduated. Wonder if they got fed up then started working a McDonalds...

What are you talking about? You have made so many generalizations in one post.

Just because people do not respond does not mean they do not have jobs in industry. I know a few people with EEE degrees who have jobs in different industries (Marine, IT, etc.). Sure these jobs aren't easy to get, but as long as you have done all you can to make your CV attractive for prospective employers and applying to a range of employers you will eventually get one there is no doubt about that.

As for career progression that is usually down to the individual themselves. The better you are at doing your job well the easier it will be to progress onto bigger and greater things

You say that but i've been applying for electrical jobs since I was 16, now i'm 22, the first few weeks I went to college I would apply to electricians, then got fed up with it, decided to move onto electrical engineers, applying even to their house, tried everything and I mean everything. I just think it's the biggest load of BS around, then once you get fed up with all these BS employers people start to say you have a bad attitude. But wouldn't they if they spent all these years wishing someone would give them a chance? I always show a good attitude to employers and that i'm keen. But we're entitled, lazy, bad attitude, not good enough CV and we only complain etc.I talked to electricians years ago, heard they said that he talked to a uni professor about electrical engineering, he basically said "You spend a lot of time and a lot of money, to find at the end of it there's no job for you.".

Look on indeed for "graduate electrical engineer", "electrical engineer", "electrical design engineer", "junior electrical engineer" and you will find they either want a degree or experience, and I bet out of all those candidates with degrees, they'd take the one that had some experience.

This is what I've tried:
Junior and Graduate roles on Indeed
Internships
Apprenticeships
Work Experience
Volunteer Work
Pursuing my degree until I got stopped and told I needed a job.
Electrical Technician Roles
Electrician Roles
Electronic Roles

It seems to me we have all these students going to uni all enthusiastic like I was, then afterwards they realize there's no job for them, then they decide to shut up, if they had jobs in EE they'd be commenting here wouldn't they? There are those few that luckily managed to land a job through nepotism, but for most of us it doesn't work like that.And by the way I've been training a web developer for the last 2 years, got much more interviews than I ever did in EE, seems like a BS industry to me, the jobs are in china and india, not here, nobody wants to take anyone on unless they can do it from the get go, why would they take on inexperienced people when they have a handful of people they can choose from with experience? It costs them to train you up.

Firstly I don't know what your background qualifications are...

Secondly why you taking all your frustration out on me

I am assuming you have at least a BEng degree in EE or EEE. If you don't then of course applying to those jobs will be hard its common sense. If you want to work as an electrical design engineer you will need a degree in electrical engineering that's a given...sure there may be some instances where someone might have done an apprenticeship and learned the trade but this isn't very common.

I graduated from an Electronics MEng degree last year and I literally know no one from my cohort who is not either working or pursuing further education at this point in time, so I think the market for EEE is fairly strong.

If you graduated with a HNC then why do you apply for graduate roles? It's a waste of time just focus on HNC level roles or if you feel the market for HNCs is very weak then consider pursuing an EE or other engineering degree.

That's what they said at college on their advert, that %99 of people were either working on pursuing higher education, but they don't say how much have electrical engineering jobs, and how much do those people even get paid. It would be nice if we had all the statistics so I could make the investment (you have to think of it like an investment). I am skeptical at the moment if I will even get a job at the end of it.

Sorry bruv, the speed makes me so ****ing low when i'm not on it.

I just think that everyone hates me and won't give me a job or let me progress because of it. All the more popular kids got good jobs, people like me are just left to rot alone IMO. And when I go to these interviews I just get the sense that they don't even like me, few people do.

Have you had a look on Unistats? It has a lot of information on average graduate salaries and it also has information on graduate destinations. Note that the data on Unistats gives aggregate values from survey respondents not the entire graduate population, the response rate is reasonably high though so the information is reliable.

The typical salary for Electronics graduates should is about £28K. The major target graduate schemes for Electronics graduates usually target e.g ARM, Imagination Technologies e.t.c pay circa £33K. Electrical engineers also average around £28K. The proportion pursuing further study varies from Uni to Uni but I would estimate it to hover around 15-20%, see unistats for detailed breakdowns.

Have you had a look on Unistats? It has a lot of information on average graduate salaries and it also has information on graduate destinations. Note that the data on Unistats gives aggregate values from survey respondents not the entire graduate population, the response rate is reasonably high though so the information is reliable.

The typical salary for Electronics graduates should is about £28K. The major target graduate schemes that Electronics graduates usually target e.g ARM, Imagination Technologies e.t.c pay circa £33K. Electrical engineers also average around £28K. The proportion pursuing further study varies from Uni to Uni but I would estimate it to hover around 15-20%, see unistats for detailed breakdowns.

It's just stupid to go based off of hearsay that EE's are paid well, only when I have clear data can I be sure, and it would put me in a better mood knowing rather than speculating that I would be paid well when I came out of university.

Does it show what percentage of students with electrical engineering degrees get jobs in EE and how much those people with jobs get paid?

If you are to make an investment you need information before hand, without this information on how many students of EE come out with EE jobs, it's speculation (the worst thing for an investor), professional investors don't go on what they're told to do, they would take into consideration all this before going to uni, how much students with EE degress got the job and how much they earned after university etc. I've noticed colleges like to kind of hide this information by saying something like "99% of students come out with jobs or go onto further education." which could mean 95% of students didn't get a job, but continued because they couldn't find a job, do you know what I mean?

It's just stupid to go based off of hearsay that EE's are paid well, only when I have clear data can I be sure, and it would put me in a better mood knowing rather than speculating that I would be paid well when I came out of university.

I don't mean to be *****y, I just get annoyed when the message isn't clear, when nobody wants to just say it as it is, anyone putting down money deserves this kind of information.

Yes, Unistats shows the percentage of survey respondents who got jobs and also the average salary those graduates are getting. As I mentioned before, you also need take into account the response rate when analysing the data on a particular course. If you can't find any information you need or if you need data from previous years then you can go directly to the HESA website and look for the information over there.



Information is not blurred, data is given on how many students went onto work AND also how many students went onto further education. Just look around for the information on Unistats and you will be able to find it.

It is also not hearsay that EE grads get paid well, it's well documented, the major EE grad schemes pay over £30K and a healthy portion of grads from top universities able to get into those. For example data from the DLHE showed that over a third of ECS grads at Southampton have starting salaries of at least £30K and only about 14% of students go onto further education. [source].