to tirlapur - yes, Linked In is a wonderful tool - not just for recruiting but in general staying in touch with a wide range of industry professionals all over the world.
to t.alex - postition that required 8 interviews - Marketing
The particular position I referenced was a technical sales position. Each facility wanted to make sure that candidates could represent their technology offering.
Recruitment based on certification for embedded system can be done like in IT but i feel the concentration should be more on practical Experience or hands on.
Idea of professional certifications may not be effective from employer point of view and it will be frustration for engineers and add futile hurdles.
Embedded design is vast subject with very high dynamic range. Normal process is to quickly acquire new skills by on-line research and adapting to right tools. More often then not, as designer you may not work on same special skill set again or may work after number of months or few years. It is your ability to read, digest new things and novel approach which make you effective solution provider.
I may not like certifications for this creative field in Art of Electroincs.
Hiring embedded software/hardware personnel can be very tricky. And i think, that has induced a habit of hand out small test (task) to candidates during the first interview process stages. Though, that is now becoming a common recruitment practise in embedded job roles. Conversely to IT, where most recruiters solely or partly based criteria of selection for best candidates' on certification qualifications they might have acquired aside the working experiences and degree qualifications.
Do you think professional certifications should also be introduced in embedded job roles in high -tech sector?
Yes, Candidate's approach to solve problem is very important. This is what we do when interview person for embedded software. We give them problem and lot many clue to get final reply which is pseudo code. This is also true for FPGA designer for IP Core. However, many other hardware person, we ask topics of interest they like most or what they worked on. Here also we do provide many clues to get close to final answer.
@Wale Bakare I agree with you that it is simply just difficult to get perfect candidates for the right jobs, but dont you think sites like linkedin have made this hiring process lot easier?
Very thorough interview process indeed. But sometimes when the candidate doesn't know about certain topic then I think its best to check the candidates approach rather than the final answer.
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