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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 4589956" data-attributes="member: 7533">"Beggars can't be choosers." You're unnecessarily narrowing your search.  You should not looking for a job in optics or signal processing, you should be looking for a job in Electrical Engineering...  Any job in EE.  Look anywhere and everywhere.  Manufacturing facilities are always looking for guys with your talents, even it means you are just working as a glorified technician, it's work that can be later displayed as experience.Don't be afraid to move away from home.  Also, never turn down a interview.  Just as interviews are all about the employers giving you the run-down, they are the best for YOU to get a good idea of what the company is like and whether or not you'd enjoy working there.High expectations.  25% is not a bad return on phone interviews.  Remembering back to my job search after college, I think of my initial round of two dozen applications, less than half even got a response, positive or negative. Three of them were requests for phone interviews, two of which turned into face to face interviews.  I got lucky and was hired from one of those two interviews.The point is, don't get down about your rate of success/failure.  There's a lot of people out there looking for the same job, and that means competition.  Though it doesn't seem so when you get rejected, just getting down to the finalist stages of phone interviews and interviews is an accomplishment.Stop making excuses. You're an engineer.  Ostensibly, you have trained to solve problems, not avoid them.  So solve this problem.As Umbran said, you can learn to overcome all of these problems, and if you do it will make a huge difference in your hiring prospects.It. Will. Never. Work.Here's why:  What will you answer, when your prospective employer asks you, "Work unpaid?  Why don't you think you deserve to get paid for your skills?" Especially in technical fields, any potential employer would rather spend money on someone who knows what they're doing, than get someone who doesn't for free.  If you offer to work unpaid, any employer worth his salt will start to wonder what's wrong with you.If you really want to learn how to land a job, let us know...  I've got more advice, but my lunch break's over.</blockquote>

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