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Microcontrollers on resume

UnknownUnknown
edited 2011-08-12 10:29 in General Discussion
Would it help your resume to list microcontrollers as an interest if you aren't applying for an electronics job?

How would you list your interest or go about it?

Any suggestions?

Comments

  • PJAllenPJAllen Banned Posts: 5,065
    edited 2011-08-11 19:21
    "Personal interests" (reading, soccer referee, ham radio,...) used to feature at the bottom, especially if you were short of job history, kind of taking up space.
    If you collect coins or do gardening would you list that?
    Whatever you put on a resume, you have to justify it with how it furthers your objective (getting hired.) If it doesn't, drop it.
  • bill190bill190 Posts: 769
    edited 2011-08-12 03:13
    Let's see...

    If I was a manager and was hiring for a job for a house painter... And wanted to find someone who would work for me for many years...

    Then someone applied for the job and told me all about how he likes working on car engines and working on cars, I might think that house painting was not his career of choice. And that as soon as he found something in that line of work, he would quit working for me! [Person might not work there very long.]

    Or if I was a not too bright manager - just learning. And I was hiring someone to assemble parts. Then an applicant came along who was a laid off professor from the Harvard School of Business Management, I might think that the person would quickly "show his stuff" to my superiors, and beat me out of that promotion I had my eye on! Or maybe they would move me to assembling parts and give him my job! [Overqualified.]

    Or maybe I had a company which was in video production, but was hiring a janitor. And someone came along to apply for the janitor job. But mentioned he made videos as a hobby. I might be more interested in hiring that person as he might be able to fill in for someone else in the company "in a pinch". [Could grow with the company - good choice.]

    Basically use your judgment as to if it could help or not.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2011-08-12 03:23
    I once landed a job in the signal processing group at the old Marconi Radar Company. Despite the fact that I knew almost nothing about signal processing having just graduated in Physics. I swear it was because the project manager that interviewed me saw I was interested in building hot air engines. We spent most of that the interview discussing how one might build such an engine with a rotary displacer. An idea which I thought was original to me at the time and that he had never heard of.
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2011-08-12 04:20
    I would probably mention it as 'electronics' or similar, and not go into specifics.
    but only if I thought the skillset had any matter at all to the job in question.
    (Attention to detail, patience, steady hand... or possibly a tolerance for small burns... )

    and sometimes this kind of hobby would detract from your chances for a specific job.
    Would you like a nightwatchman at your electronics warehouse or factory that is an avid electronics tinkerer at home?
    could you be certain that he would keep his mind at the job, and also not to pinch 'samples' for home use?

    Anyway, don't go into detail. If they want to know more about your hobbbies, they'll ask.
    Otherwise, 'blabbing off' with unnecessary details will just annoy them, especially if they don't know the terms used.
  • Kevin WoodKevin Wood Posts: 1,266
    edited 2011-08-12 04:32
    Just apply for electronics jobs. :)
  • GadgetmanGadgetman Posts: 2,436
    edited 2011-08-12 05:27
    I would probably mention it as 'electronics' or similar, and not go into specifics.
    but only if I thought the skillset had any matter at all to the job in question.
    (Attention to detail, patience, steady hand... or possibly a tolerance for small burns... )

    and sometimes this kind of hobby would detract from your chances for a specific job.
    Would you like a nightwatchman at your electronics warehouse or factory that is an avid electronics tinkerer at home?
    could you be certain that he would keep his mind at the job, and also not to pinch 'samples' for home use?

    Anyway, don't go into detail. If they want to know more about your hobbbies, they'll ask.
    Otherwise, 'blabbing off' with unnecessary details will just annoy them, especially if they don't know the terms used.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-08-12 09:38
    I would mention "robotics" before microcontrollers. A bit more tangible.

    Like Sara Lee, "nobody doesn't like robots".
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2011-08-12 10:29
    Unless you're applying for Headmaster at a school for Luddites, I can't imagine how it would hurt to place it on your resume.
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