[OT] Software Engineering Employment

[Gordon Christie <homeautomation@xxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

I promised myself I wasn't going to start doing this, but I'm guessing
that there might be some useful insights and/or contacts contained
within
this list, so here goes..

I am currently looking for employment as a software engineer, and as
those
of you in the industry will probably know, it's not easy to find this
kind
of job out there, especially at the almost-entry-level that I'm at. I'm
willing to move anywhere within the UK or to the US or Canada if I can
find work there.

The necessary blurb: I graduated from the Robert Gordon University in
Aberdeen with a B.Sc. (hons) in Computer Science, passing with first
class
honours, and winning the class prize. I have about two years of
combined
relevant work experience, between a fifteen month placement at BT, a
six
month contract doing development work for the university, and a couple
of
miscellaneous summer jobs doing development. I also have a Sun
certification in Java at the "Programmer" level, and I was a
finalist in
the "Scottish Young Software Engineer of the Year" award on the
basis of
my networked home automation honours project (this is the tenuous link
to
this list. :) ).

I've been looking in the typical places (University Careers office,
online
agencies, jobcenter lists, graduate schemes at large companies, etc.),
and
have been asking a few contacts to see what I can find out. I haven't
been
having a huge amount of success though.

If anyone has any ideas, or any contacts that I might try, I'd be very
grateful to hear from you.

Thanks for your patience. ;)

~Gordon Christie
homeautomation@xxxxxxx


http://www.automatedhome.co.uk
Post message: ukha_d@xxxxxxx 
Subscribe:  ukha_d-subscribe@xxxxxxx 
Unsubscribe:  ukha_d-unsubscribe@xxxxxxx 
List owner:  ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
List of UKHA Groups here - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UKHA_Grouplists/

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.