I am about to find a job. How to find a job in communication engineering?

Present situation: There are many schools and students, and the level difference is great.

Communication: It is not a sunrise industry, but it must belong to an evergreen industry. The salary of undergraduate job hunting is higher than that of other non-IT industries. But I am very tired after joining the company. The employment is wide and the course content is heavy.

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I believe that many students entered this major before the college entrance examination for the golden signboard of "Communication Engineering", and after entering the university, a large number of people will feel confused or worried about the future-we obviously felt this emotion from the letters we received from readers. In fact, on the eve of 3G implementation, experts in human resources think that the "second spring" of the communication industry is coming, but at the same time, they also think that this spring can't catch up with the last time, but it only moistens those who are prepared.

Many students are also puzzled by the salary level of the communication industry: why do graduates complain that it is difficult to find a job, but communication is a high-paying industry-in fact, high salary can only be obtained in a few large R&D companies such as Huawei and ZTE. Even if it is the same position of the same operator, the treatment of branches all over the country may be very different and cannot be described in general. So I can only list a few companies with relatively good treatment to introduce their approximate salary standards-in most small and medium-sized enterprises and operators' branches, the treatment of new employees can not reach this level. Huawei: the monthly salary of new employees is 3500-4000, and the subsidy is 1000 (Shenzhen Bantian); UT Starcom: The monthly salary of new employees is about 5,500, and the subsidy is nearly 2,000 (Shenzhen Science Park). Huizhou Telecommunications Bureau: The monthly salary of new employees is 2000-3500, the subsidy is 300, and the year-end bonus is about 20,000 (Jiangbei, Huizhou).

Communication technology research and development personnel

Career path: R&D personnel → R&D engineers → senior marketing or management personnel.

Talent market: A few years ago, the communication industry was in the spring, and the R&D field provided many high-paying positions. Even today, R&D positions of well-known enterprises such as Huawei, ZTE and UT Starcom are still very competitive. However, such companies and positions are too few compared with the increasing number of graduates in our major every year.

The reasons are not only the decrease in the demand for talents directly brought about by the scale of the communication industry and the stagnation of market development, but also the attitude of colleges and universities towards the setting of communication majors: "Go if conditions permit." -Many schools actually don't have the strength to offer this major. The key lies in teachers and experimental equipment. But even so, we should not lose heart. After all, as far as our major is concerned, it is difficult for undergraduates to meet the employment requirements of enterprises once they graduate. Therefore, the criteria for many enterprises to select new employees are "solid professional foundation, open mind, good English and a little creativity."

Analysis and suggestion: "The university can get graduation certificate, degree certificate, band 6 and computer certificate in four years, and everything else depends on mixing." There is a popular view among graduates nowadays. I personally don't think so. At least graduates majoring in communication-most companies will take a major when recruiting. Just like the school exam, I can cram for the exam, but I have a deep understanding of how good the effect is: I took the recruitment exam for the first time after graduation that year, and there were seven questions-involving analog circuits, digital circuits, mobile communications, high-frequency electronic circuits and C language. The topic is very basic, but it covers a wide range, so you can't solve the problem before the exam. Even if you get away with it, because he may ask you carefully about your solution ideas in the next interview (later the supervisor told me that ideas are more important than answers).

More importantly, they won't give you the key points before the exam like your teacher. As long as you show a little professional skills in the test paper, your application can be said to be "over".

Key courses: circuit theory and application, computer technology, signal and system, electromagnetic field theory, digital system and logic design, digital signal processing, communication principle, etc. The specialized course of assembly and composition principle is still necessary and can be used in practical work. We can't be required to be proficient in every subject, but at least we can learn a little-you can choose two or three courses that interest you.

About English. The relationship between communication engineering and English is not particularly close, but most of the well-paid communication companies are foreign companies. Even a domestic-funded enterprise like Huawei requires a six-level recruitment-in the case of a particularly large choice, enterprises will naturally raise the entry threshold.

About creativity. The creativity here can actually be explained as novel ideas and design development consciousness. Therefore, compared with other activities organized by the school, it is a good exercise for us to participate in such activities as the electronic design competition. Remember, when writing a work or an award-winning design on your resume, you should carefully prepare the design ideas, including the problems in the design process, as well as the solutions and principles. If you have a good understanding of single-chip microcomputer and circuit, you can try to make a board yourself to prepare for the development of single-chip microcomputer after graduation, and then accumulate experience in your work and learn embedded system knowledge. This technical route is more suitable.

Technology going to market (management) is the home of many R&D personnel. Because with the growth of age, the learning ability declines, coupled with the bottleneck of R&D department's work design and strong technical foundation, engineers are choosing to do technical support, customer service and management of technical departments for a period of time (technical background has obvious advantages for this management: in such a high-tech department, who will serve a leader who can't even read the circuit diagram? )

Finally, on the eve of 3G, if you can master the basic knowledge of this technology, it should be of great benefit to employment. Here is a certification-Motorola Institute of Engineering, based on the communication technology training of 10 years, is the first in the industry to launch a social-oriented wireless communication technology course system-MCNE (Motorola Certified Network Engineer/Motorola Certified Wireless Network Engineer) course series and related courses. (For recommendation only, please judge and choose carefully according to your own situation. )

Sales staff of communication products

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

Talent market: the demand is large, and the requirements for professional skills are not particularly deep, which is suitable for ordinary undergraduates. The most important thing is to have enough room for career development. If it really doesn't work, you can switch to other industries and continue to do sales.

Analysis and suggestions: including the sales of various upstream equipment and communication equipment. For the sales of upstream equipment, enterprises attach great importance to professional background when recruiting, so they must have a comprehensive understanding of some basic professional courses of communication. I suggest that those students who want to do sales practice before graduation and try to go to the R&D department of the enterprise-it is unwise to compete with marketing students in sales professional knowledge, and they should strengthen the core advantages of professional background.

In addition, it is natural to cultivate communication ability, marketing ability and planning ability. There are many students in the university who disdain to work in the student union. Actually, I don't know if you can learn anything else there. It is a good way to cultivate your communication and organizational skills, especially when you have achieved a certain position through your own efforts. 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 blunt, while the latter is theory plus practice.

What you can start preparing at school is to learn to do marketing planning-you can download some excellent planning and planning projects on the Internet, and learn slowly according to it. This is what you must use at work, and some companies may do the same in the written test. Finally, regular planning can help you form a good habit: always organize your thoughts and analyze things in an orderly way.

The following is the announcement of a famous foreign communication equipment manufacturer recruiting sales engineers. You can refer to the conditions, compare with your own situation one by one, find out the gap, and then start to make a capacity building plan.

Recruitment position: senior sales engineer

Responsibilities: Responsible for the planning and implementation of sales activities in the sales area, and achieve sales targets; Maintain and develop customer relationships to effectively promote R&D; Radio monitoring products; As a technical consultant, show products to customers and provide complete solutions (through pre-job training).

Requirements: Bachelor degree or master degree, majoring in communication engineering; Familiar with wireless communication technology and its solutions; Excellent interpersonal communication and business negotiation skills; Like challenging work and have a strong desire for success; There are six levels of spoken and written English.

Telecom operator employees

Career path: employee → supervisor → middle and senior managers.

Talent market: The entry threshold for service posts among operators is relatively low, so in some areas, the talents of companies such as China Mobile and China Unicom are close to saturation. Even though several major operators publish large-scale campus recruitment plans every year, the graduates majoring in communication have no obvious advantages. However, in recent years, due to the rise of network broadband, it has brought a lot of employment opportunities to the weak job market. In short, if we are not too picky, it should not be difficult to find a job after graduation. More importantly, if you work as a salesman in an operator, your future career path will be much broader than that of doing it-you can switch to selling other products or services.

Analysis and suggestions: to do equipment maintenance in operators, one is to stand by in the operator's computer room at any time, and the other is to work under the base station maintenance agent. The following work is to maintain the normal operation of the base station: for example, if the base station is out of power, you need to start the standby power supply, replace parts and carry out normal inspection; Even if the wind blows, the antenna is crooked and within the working range. If your David Chamber of Commerce doesn't invite some workers to help you, the maintenance of the base station is relatively hard.

The greatest demand is still for service jobs, such as account manager, market development and so on. Although this kind of job recruitment generally does not require professional background, in any case, between you and other professional applicants with the same conditions, the opportunity should be more for you. Doing sales, marketing or customer service in operators requires the same quality as ordinary salesmen. First of all, you should have good communication skills (how to impress the examiner to hire you in the interview process is the best challenge opportunity), and then learning ability (more and more enterprises pay more attention to the plasticity of graduates and whether they can quickly integrate into the working environment and corporate culture when recruiting on campus). In this way, many students will find the problem they face: they will blush when talking to strangers-the solution is: take part in more group activities and chat with people, which will be a bit embarrassing at first, but after one or two times, you will be very confident.