You're hired! Engineering jobs appear to be coming back, but not everyone's convinced.(Paul Porter management in Nortel Networks )

Design News,  July, 2005  by Costlow, Terry

Tags: job, Nortel Networks Corp., Porter five forces

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In the depths of the tech wreck years, Paul Porter was so dismayed by the cutbacks of his co-workers at troubled Nortel Networks that he decided to leave the field. Hiring in electronics is now picking up, but that hasn't prompted Porter to change his mind.

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After telling Design News early in 2003 that he had "spent seven years in school for a six-year career," the MSEE graduate gave engineering another shot. He picked up a job "training a team in India to write wireless telecom test scripts for GSM, which was the technical foundation ...

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