Nowadays, in those departments that have adopted the new process, candidates spend time with Price and a hiring manager, then move to a room with a peer group in their specialty area. It s an idea exchange, where they can talk to each other. We have our engineers and our inventions in the room. They can talk engineering talk and hold real toys in their hands. They re learning.
Engineers love to learn and challenge each other.
For Tech graduates seeking their first jobs, demand remains high for computer engineering and computer science jobs, says Rosita Smith, associate director of Career Services. And even though most of the students who use Georgia Tech Career Services wind up working in the Southeast, Smith says the high demand for information-technology jobs is a nationwide and worldwide phenomenon. Smith also observes that students earning non-technical degrees need a certain level of technical expertise. It s reached the point where even students who are not interested in a technical field need technical skills. Manhattan Associates, along with IBM and Andersen Consulting, are among the top employers of Georgia Tech s IT students, Smith says.