Get intelligent intelligence.
Now that so many students fight for the highest possible grades, work multiple jobs, join countless student organizations, and take initiative in their community, a single question should linger in the minds of students such as yourself: "How can I possibly stand out now?" Here's the thing -- colleges know just as well as you do that intelligent and active applicants are all over the place.
Applications to the MSEC program number relatively few, but the applicants are an intelligent and motivated group self-selected for their interdisciplinary interests.
As employers adopt intelligent bots, challenges, and rethink what applicant tracking systems can do to improve hiring processes, candidate pools will start with far fewer false positives and false negatives.
ECE applicants should indicate the Signal and Information Processing track, and MEMS applicants should indicate the Intelligent Systems or Controls tracks.
The letters written for female applicants typically praised them as solid scientists doing good work, using comments such as "highly intelligent" and "very knowledgeable," but were less likely to set the applicant apart from the others.
In a recent study 73% of a cohort of persons suffering from mental illness believed that most employers would pass over an application from a former psychiatric patient in favour of another applicant and that they are not considered as trustworthy as the average citizen (67%) or as intelligent as other people (56%) [ 25].
Having reviewed grant applications for 4 years, she advises younger applicants to "assume your audience is uninformed, but infinitely intelligent".
In this field, an applicant's technical skills are assumed: Companies expect that they will hire competent, intelligent people who can attack a challenge with enthusiasm and skill.
We put out a polite and dignified call for interns, thinking perhaps naively that descriptors like "hardworking," "intelligent," and "not totally shitty" will be enough to land us a few solid applicants.
