Welcome to commencement. Do you have a job?
A job in the high-tech industry is the elusive goal of many college graduates, whether it's at a hot start-up, a colossus like Google, or a defense contractor designing the tools of the military. The question, of course, is whether there are jobs for those dreamers. In a series of profiles of college graduates throughout the United States, CNET finds high-tech companies are more welcoming to college grads than they've been in years--so long as those grads are smart, creative, and a little realistic.
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Heading to the cloud at the Googleplex
Ben Wheeler took a gamble that grad school would pay off. After two years of a grueling engineering and MBA program, he'll be working at Google, where he'll apply his operations chops to cloud computing.
A Caltech whiz kid finds her way to Intel
Caltech graduating senior Michelle Jiang, a double major in mechanical engineering and business, set her sites on a tech giant and never looked back, fending off recruiters along the way.
In-demand grad takes a very big gamble
Thomas Schluchter is about to graduate with a master's from UC Berkeley's School of Information. He spent weeks preparing for a grueling set of interviews, and discovered he's a very attractive candidate. But quality of life may be more important than money.
Trying to score a job in online gaming
Georgia Tech graduate Mae Tidman hopes her programming skills, design background, film study, and internships will get her hired by an online gaming firm.
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