This is only my experience, but it may help. I have an MSEE and had a hard time finding work in 2008. I found 3 jobs since but all were mediocre. Back then I

This is only my experience, but it may help. I have an MSEE and had a hard time finding work in 2008. I found 3 jobs since but all were mediocre. Back then I'd probably get a response rate under 5%. It might be 1/100 tries before I get the job. It's not my interview skills - once I get in person I'm more than 50/50. I think there are two reasons electronics majors have a hard time finding work, which the software people here haven't experienced. First of course is that there are much fewer electronics jobs. You can just look at craigslist or whatever. There might be 1 job for every 10-20 software posts. (As an aside, I taught myself web development and recently applied to 6 or so companies. 3 responded, plus another I didn't apply to found me on LinkedIn. The market is that much different.) Second is that advanced electronics is already highly specialized, yet prohibitively expensive to tinker with designing (integrated circuits, power supplies, etc). Nor would you have any personal use for them. That means you are useless when right out of school. That in turns means that companies have no incentive to hire, except from only the best schools. The options thus are to either find a non-design job (tech support, marketing, applications), or find work at a company whose product is not so expensive and you can build something similar with an Arduino or whatever. Or, try to get into a highly regarded graduate program. Or, as some have pointed out, try your hand at software.