Peter needs a job.

1002 job applications to 236 companies in 13 countries.

10 replies, all negative.

If you have a job opening anywhere in the world that you think I am qualified for, please contact me immediately! Send me an email at

and I will respond to you as soon as I receive your message. Thank you!

I have a first-class MEng in Electronic Systems Engineering from Lancaster University in the UK. I am most interested in circuit design, sensor/control systems, and computer networks. I also have experience in technical support and user documentation.

I've applied for more than 1000 jobs, and still have not succeeded. My resume is available on my website:

My visa will end on the 11th of August, and I'm running out of time. I have hopes and dreams and goals, but I will sacrifice those for food and shelter.

I appreciate all advice. But please consult the

before giving generic advice that is not related to a specific job or a new company to contact.

Total: 885 (104.com.tw) + 46 (Adecco) + 19 (LinkedIn) + 39 (Company website) + 13 (Emails) = 1002 jobs

Total: 163 (104.com.tw) + 46 (Adecco) + 13 - 5 (LinkedIn) + 9 - 3 (Company website) + 13 - 1 (Emails) = 236 companies

Countries

13 countries

I've chosen one example job from each country, though I have applied to many more.

"But Hong Kong and Taiwan are part of China!". This is not supposed to be a political statement. Technically the job in Antarctica is on a base in territory belonging to the UK. Let's not make this complicated.

Images courtesy Polandball. Peter cannot into work!

Antarctica

Canada

China

France

Germany

Hong Kong

New Zealand

Norway

Poland

Switzerland

Taiwan

UK

Vietnam

Replies

10 replies

None of these replies were positive.

This includes automated replies, just saying that I sent an application.

Reasons for saying no varied. Wistron and Orion Health found someone else. Yoctopuce is a small company with no jobs available. RelayTV won't hire foreigners.

Quanta said that I have too much experience. I've done many short internships, and they wanted me to have 2 years continuous work experience. The job description did not say that, though, and I made it clear that I want to stay for at least 12 months this time. After I answered, they didn't reply a second time.

Apple

Crane

D2

Ericsson

Nordic Semiconductor

Orion Health

Quanta

RelayTV

Wistron

Yoctopuce

104 - http://www.104.com.tw

885 jobs, 163 companies

104 is the main job searching website for Taiwan.

There is a list of every technology company, and I searched all of those for relevant jobs. I also used Wikipedia to find more technology companies in Taiwan, and searched each of those companies for relevant jobs.

Filling out the profile was not easy, because the website has no English version. Chrome can translate it, but some forms become unusable after translation because they are resized. I completed the profile myself, and asked 2 friends from Taiwan to check it (Thank you Hsin-yin and Stella!).

For each job application, I could add a cover letter. However, it is limited to 800 characters. You can write much more in 800 traditional Chinese characters than 800 English characters! So I only had about 2 sentences I could change, which I did.

3Y Power

A10

Aaeon

Accton

Acer

Adlink

Advantech

Air Live

Airoha

Alcatel Lucent

American Megatrends

Amkor

Amphenol

Anax

AOI

Arris

ASE

ASML

ASRock

Asus

Aten

AUO

AVision

AVtech

Biostar

Broadcom

Cadence

Calcomp

Chicony

Cipherlab

Compal

Crane

CSI

CSR

Cypress

D-Link

D2

Dell

Delta

DFI

Diodes

Draytek

eASPNet

Edison

Elitegroup

Epistar

Epson

Ericsson

FalconStor

Fime

Flexium

Flextronics

Forte Media

Foxconn

Foxlink

Fresco

FSP

Fuhu

Futaba

Futuredial

Garmin

Gigabyte

GPT

Groundhog

GUC

Himax

Holtek

HP

HTC

Hynix

IMEC

Infineon

Infortrend

Innolux

Insyde

Inventec

Jabil

JMicron

KLA-Tencor

Lam

Lanner

Largan

Lenovo

Lionbridge

Lite-On

Logitech

Marvell

MediaTek

MiTAC

Movial

MSI

MStar

MY-Semi

National Instruments

NCR

NEC

Netgear

Newegg

Nuvoton

NVIDIA

NXP

Orbotech

Pegatron

Phison

Phoenix

Plustek

Powerchip

Promise

PSA

PTI

Qisda

Qualcomm

Quanta

Rakuten

Realtek

RelayTV

Rohde & Schwarz

Samsung

Seagull

Seasonic

Silicon Power

Simplo

Sina

Sitronix

Skymedi

SMIC

SMT

SPIL

STATSChipPac

Streaming21

Sunon

Sunplus

Super Micro

Synopsys

TDK

TE Connectivity

Teco

Tecom

Teradata

Teradyne

Texas Instruments

Thunder Tiger

Titansoft

Toshiba

TPV

Transcend

Trend Micro

Tripod

TSMC

Tul

UMC

Unimicron

USI

Vanguard

VIA

VPon

Winbond

Wincor Nixdorf

Wistron

Yageo

Yahoo

Zhen Ding

ZyXEL

Adecco - http://www.adecco.com.tw

46 jobs, 46 companies?

Adecco is a multinational job searching company.

Thankfully this website has an English version, so I could fill out my profile quite easily. However, there were only 450 jobs listed in total (compared to about 5000 that I viewed on 104).

Only the job description is given on the Adecco website, not the company name. It's also impossible to attach a cover letter. The website also only works on Firefox, which doesn't have built-in translation like Chome.

Job descriptions are in this folder:

http://peterburk.free.fr/jobs/PDFs/Adecco/

LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com

19 jobs, 13 companies - 5 duplicate companies

LinkedIn is a multinational job searching social network.

Filling out my profile was easy, as the website has an English version. It is not possible to add a cover letter.

None of these job applications replied.

AMD

ATMI

Corning

Liteon

Marvell

Migo

MOXA

NXP

OBI Pharma

Seagate

ST Microelectronics

Trend Micro

TSMC

Company website

39 jobs, 9 companies - 3 duplicate companies

Each company has their own website, and I had to fill out a new profile every time.

I got auto-replies from Apple and Nordic to confirm that my application was received. Orion Health replied to say that they found someone else.

Apple

British Antarctic Survey

Ericsson

GUC

Nordic Semiconductor

Orion Health

Texas Instruments

Emails

13 companies - 1 duplicate company

This is my traditional way of applying for jobs. My cover letter is the text of the email, and my resume is attached.

Yoctopuce was the only one who replied. They said that they are a small company, and cannot hire more staff at present.

APT

Aviosys

Babbel

Carbon Computing

Edom

GeoOp

iCare4

Quanta

Sentec

SolidRun

StudioA

UL

Wistron

Yoctopuce