Why did I ever go into EE?? Even more, why did I ever go into DSP??

ClassicRockerDad
Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:44:55 +0000

go on indeed, dice, etc



Exactly, but make sure that you don’t actually send a recruiter like Dice your resume. Use them to find the jobs, but you want to apply to the companies directly.



all my grad research (and pretty much all the stuff listed on my resume related to DSP), were related to bioelectrical signal processing



I went on on SimplyHired and googled Biomedical Signal Processing in MA and only about 24 jobs came up. One seems right up your ally. Allied Minds.

Have you applied to the Allied Minds job? I can’t tell if that’s a recruiter, so I googled the text of the job ad and found it on LinkedIn also
92 Gentex Corporation jobs in United States (1 new);

You can also click on the recruiter Kathryn Graves and you can see that she works directly for Allied Minds now, so it’s probably a recruiter that works exclusively for this venture firm that does searches for their startup companies. That’s ok. You want to avoid general search firms like kforce, dice, etc that just forward your resume for 20-30% of your first year’s salary.


Keep a record of every job you apply for. There are a finite number of jobs, and you ought to know each one of them so that you can tell a new one when it pops up.
You also want to guess how good of a fit you are.
Make sure it’s not a recruiter posting the ad, and if it is, copy the contents of the ad into Google search and try to find the Principal company.
Send the resume and follow up with a phone call a few days later. Sometimes you can charm the HR person into giving you some indication of interest. It sounds like you’ve already done that in a lot of cases.
I don’t know if you can pull your resume back from recruiters. You own the copyright though. There may be a way.