{"id":172,"date":"2012-02-20T11:56:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T18:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=172"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:18:13","slug":"is-the-job-market-getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2012\/02\/20\/is-the-job-market-getting-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Job Market Getting Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past few months I\u2019ve visited several customers, and they have all had similar comments \u2013 their businesses are looking up.\u00a0 The engineers are busy with new designs; some are looking to hire new EE\u2019s and PCB designers.\u00a0 Or, they are busy investigating new technologies to use in upcoming projects.\u00a0 I was unable to visit a couple customers because they were too busy with their current projects.\u00a0 (A common comment the past years was \u201cwe\u2019re doing the same amount of work with less people\u201d still seems true in many places today)<\/p>\n<p>How is it at your company?\u00a0 Are you looking to add people to your design teams this year?<\/p>\n<p>It is important to stay up on the current technologies and tools available to you.\u00a0 We at Mentor\u2019s Board System Division are trying to help by providing educational webinars available 24\/7 at <a title=\"www.pads.com\/resources\" href=\"www.pads.com\/resources?cmpid=9049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.pads.com\/resources<\/a>.\u00a0 Here, you will find many webinars, by Mentor folks, as well as industry experts, discussing new technologies in signal and power integrity, manufacturing, thermal, etc., as well as PCB.\u00a0 I encourage you to browse this site \u2013 I\u2019m sure you will find something that is of interest to you.<\/p>\n<p>Mentor is also helping the unemployed engineers and designers of our community expand their expertise in Mentor tools.\u00a0 The Customer Support Division (CSD) through their training department offers the Displaced Worker Program, which offers complimentary training to unemployed design professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few months I\u2019ve visited several customers, and they have all had similar comments \u2013 their businesses are looking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10309,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/10309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}