I was wondering if you could give me some job search advice.
I live in the UK and wanted to identify company?s that design products that use a large amount of power electronics in them.
I would like to narrow my search to northern England and Scotland.
My experience is switch mode power supply design, but I am considering all areas of power electronics in my job search activities.
Has anyone got advice on how to search for company product type / location?
I would like to work for a power supply design company, but I know there are a dwindling amount of them in the north of England.
Thanks
Reggie.
At risk of stating the obvious:
There are countless employment agencies that advertise jobs on the WWW and are only too keen to accept your CV and then introduce you to requirements of companies on their books. Putting some appropriate search criteria into Google (sites from UK option) will provide many leads. Some also advertise in newspapers like the Guardian (check which day of the week they major on technology as opposed to other fields of work).
However, these agencies are chasing the percentage of first-year's salary that they claim from the employer when they provide the successful candidate, and the danger is that they will pay insufficient attention to what you specify and try to send you along for interview for jobs that barely meet your requirements. So you will need to be selective and possibly send your CV out to a number of them 'in parallel'.
Alternatively, you could try to target manufacturing companies directly and begin by putting an appropriate combination of words into Google. This approach will probably require a lot more study on your part, but the benefit if you do find what you want is that you won't be supporting the agencies!
Good luck,
Chris