Employment prospects for graduate students in communications engineering at Jiangsu University

1 Analysis of Employment Prospects of Communication Engineering Major

I believe that after many students enter university, a large number of them will be confused or worried about the future - we feel this mood. In fact, on the eve of the implementation of 3G, human resources experts believed that the "second spring" of the communications industry was coming soon, but at the same time, they also believed that this spring would not be able to rain down nectar like last time, but would only provide nourishment. That part of the people who are prepared.

Many students are also confused about the salary level in the communications industry: why graduates complain that it is difficult to find jobs, but communications is a high-wage industry - in fact, high salaries are only available in a few large companies such as Huawei and ZTE. R&D companies can get it. Even for the same position of the same operator, the salary in branches across the country may be very different, and it cannot be described in a general way. Therefore, I can only list a few units with relatively good salary to introduce their approximate salary standards - —In most small and medium-sized enterprises and branches of operators, the treatment of new employees cannot reach this level. Huawei: New employees’ monthly salary is 3,500-4,000, with a subsidy of 1,000 (Shenzhen Bantian); UTStarcom: New employees’ monthly salary is around 5,500, with a subsidy of nearly 2,000 (Shenzhen Science and Technology Park). Huizhou Telecommunications Bureau: New employees have a monthly salary of 2,000-3,500, a subsidy of 300, and a year-end bonus of nearly 20,000 (Huizhou Jiangbei).

Communication technology R&D personnel

Career path: R&D researcher → R&D engineer → senior marketing or management personnel

Talent market: The communication industry has been in spring in the past few years , the R&D field provides many high-paying positions. Even today, the salaries of R&D positions in well-known companies such as Huawei, ZTE, and UTStarcom are still very competitive. But such companies and positions are too few compared to the increasing number of graduates of this major we have every year.

The reason for this is that in addition to the reduction in talent demand directly caused by the stagnation of the scale of the communications industry and market development, there is also the attitude of universities towards the establishment of communications majors: "If you have conditions, you have to go there, and if there are no conditions, you have to go there." "——Many schools actually do not have the ability to offer this major. The key lies in teachers and experimental equipment. But even so, we should not be discouraged. After all, as far as our major is concerned, it is difficult for undergraduates to meet the employment requirements of enterprises in terms of professional ability as soon as they graduate. Therefore, the criteria for selecting new employees by many companies are "a solid professional foundation, broad thinking, good English, and a little creative."

Analytical suggestions: "Be able to complete graduation certificates, degree certificates, and CET-6 in four years of college It’s enough to get a second-level certificate in computer science, and everything else is just a matter of dawdling.” This is a popular view among graduates nowadays. I personally don’t think this is the case, at least for graduates who majored in communications - most companies will conduct a professional exam for recruitment. Just like the exam in school, you can also cram before the exam, but the effect is I have a deep understanding of how wonderful it is: when I took the recruitment exam for the first time after graduation, there were only seven questions - involving analog circuits, digital circuits, mobile communications, high-frequency electronic circuits, and C language. The questions are very basic, but cover a wide range of topics, and cannot be solved by rushing in before the exam. Even if you get through by chance, he may ask you carefully about your solution ideas in the next interview because of calculation problems and the like (later my supervisor told me that ideas are more important than answers).

More importantly, they will not give you the key points before the exam like your teacher. And as long as you show any sign of substandard professional skills in the test paper, your application can be said to be "over."

Key courses: series of courses on circuit theory and application, series of courses on computer technology, signals and systems, electromagnetic field theory, digital system and logic design, digital signal processing, communication principles, etc. Professional courses such as assembly and composition principles are still necessary and can be used in actual work. We are not required to be proficient in every subject, but at least we must understand them all and master some of them - you can choose two or three courses that interest you to study.

About English.

The relationship between the communication engineering major itself and English is not particularly close, but most communication companies with better remuneration are foreign companies. Even domestic companies like Huawei require CET-6 in English when recruiting - in the face of the challenges When there is so much room for choice, companies will naturally raise the barriers to entry.

About creativity. In fact, the creativity here can be interpreted as novel ideas, design, and development awareness. Therefore, compared with other activities organized in schools, participating in activities such as electronic design competitions is a good exercise for our abilities. Remember, when you write your works or award-winning designs on your resume, you must Carefully prepare ideas for the design, including problems arising during the design process, as well as solutions and principles. If you have learned well about microcontrollers and circuits, you can try to make a board by yourself to prepare for finding a job in microcontroller development after graduation. Then you can accumulate experience at work and learn embedded system knowledge. This is the better technical route. appropriate.

Transferring technology to the market (management) is where many R&D personnel end up. Because with age, learning ability declines, coupled with the company's bottleneck in position design in the R&D department, and the "confidence" of having a strong technical foundation, engineers choose to do technical support, customer service and management of the technical department for a period of time. (The advantage of a technical background is very obvious for this kind of management: in a department with such a high technical content, who would serve a leader who can’t even understand a circuit diagram?)

Finally, on the eve of 3G, if Being proficient in the basic knowledge of this technology should be of great benefit to employment. Here, I recommend a certification - Motorola Engineering Academy, based on more than 10 years of communication technology training, was the first in the industry to launch wireless communications for society. Public technical course system - MCNE (Motorola Certified Network Engineer/Motorola Certified Wireless Network Engineer) course series, as well as related wireless talent certification standards and certification exams. (Recommendations only, please make careful judgments and choices based on your own situation)

Communication product salesperson

Career path: sales assistant → sales engineer → sales (marketing) manager

Talent market: The demand is huge, and the requirements for professional skills are not particularly deep. It is suitable for ordinary undergraduates. The most important thing is that the career development space is large enough. If it doesn't work, you can still switch to other industries and continue to be in sales.

Analysis suggestions: including sales of various upstream equipment and communication equipment. For the sales of upstream equipment, companies attach great importance to professional background when recruiting. Therefore, it is necessary to have a relatively comprehensive understanding of some basic professional courses in communications. I suggest students who want to do sales to intern in the R&D department of a company before graduation - it is unwise to compete with marketing students on sales expertise. We should strengthen the core advantage of professional background.

In addition, it is a matter of course to cultivate communication skills, marketing skills, and planning skills. Many students disdain doing things in the student union in college. In fact, I don’t know if I can learn anything else there. Cultivating communication and organizational skills is a better way, especially when you have achieved certain results through your own efforts. Position. As for reading professional books on sales, I personally think it is better to read professional magazines and newspapers. The former is almost pure theory and very blunt, while the latter is theory plus practice.

What you can also start preparing in school is to learn to do marketing plans - you can find some excellent planning and planning projects on the Internet, and learn slowly by comparing them. This is what you must use at work. Moreover, some companies may also include this content in the written examination. Finally, frequent planning can help you develop a good habit: organize your thoughts frequently and analyze things in an organized manner.

The following is an announcement for a well-known foreign communications equipment manufacturer to recruit sales engineers. You can refer to the conditions, compare them with your own situation one by one, find out the gaps, and then start formulating a capability development plan.

Position: Senior Sales Engineer

Job Responsibilities: Responsible for the planning and execution of sales activities in the sales area, completing sales targets; maintaining and developing customer relationships to effectively promote Ramp; S Radio Monitor products; serve as a technical consultant, demonstrate products to customers and provide a complete set of solutions (achieved through pre-job training).

Job requirements: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in communication engineering; familiar with wireless communication technology and its solutions; excellent interpersonal communication and business negotiation skills; likes challenging work and has a strong desire to succeed; English Oral and written expression are at CET-6 level.

Telecom operator staff

Career path: staff → supervisor → middle and senior management

Talent situation: The entry threshold for service positions in operators is relatively high Low, so in some areas the talent pool of companies such as China Mobile and China Unicom is approaching saturation. Even though several major operators release a relatively large-scale campus recruitment plan every year, graduates majoring in communications do not have obvious advantages. However, in recent years, the rise of Internet broadband has brought a large number of job opportunities to the weak job market. All in all, if we are not too picky, it shouldn't be difficult for us to find a job after graduation. What's more important is that if you work in sales at an operator, your future career path will be much broader than in technology - you can switch to selling other products or services.

Analysis and suggestions: When doing equipment maintenance at an operator, one is to be on call at the operator's computer room at any time, and the other is to work under the base station maintenance agent. The latter type of work is to maintain the normal operation of the base station: for example, if the base station has a power outage, you need to activate the backup power supply, replace parts, and conduct normal inspections; even if the antenna is blown crooked in strong winds, it is within the scope of the work. If your maintenance agency doesn't hire some workers to help you, base station maintenance will be relatively laborious.

The most in demand are service positions, such as account managers, market development, etc. Although recruitment for this type of position generally does not require a professional background, in any case, between you and candidates from other majors with the same conditions, you should have more opportunities. To work in sales, marketing, or customer service at an operator, the required qualities are similar to those of an ordinary salesperson. First, you must have good communication skills (how you impress the examiner during the interview process is the best opportunity to challenge you), and then Learning ability (more and more companies pay more attention to the plasticity of graduates and their ability to quickly integrate into the work environment and company culture when recruiting on campus). In this way, many students will find themselves facing the problem of blushing when talking to strangers - the solution is: participate in more group activities and chat with more people. It will be a little awkward at first, but after one or two times, you will become very comfortable. Confident.