The biggest obstacle to getting a new job once you start to make good money is headhunters who don't have any idea what you do working with HR people who don't know what you do. They do word matches on your resume. If you used the Microtech Research compiler at your last job to do embedded programming they aren't sure if the new job that uses VxWorks and the gcc compiler for embedded programming is a "good match". By the time you are my age (47) you should know 100 people at 50 companies that you can just call another engineer that works there and at least get an interview.
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The biggest obstacle to getting a new job once you start to make good money is headhunters who don't have any idea what you do working with HR people who don't know what you do. They do word matches on your resume. If you used the Microtech Research compiler at your last job to do embedded programming they aren't sure if the new job that uses VxWorks and the gcc compiler for embedded programming is a "good match". By the time you are my age (47) you should know 100 people at 50 companies that you can just call another engineer that works there and at least get an interview.