Resources

Embedded Job Market Expands, But Boomers Feel the Squeeze | The Top 6 Tech Skills You Need | Embedded Engineering Jobs & Controlling Your own Destiny | Looking For a Job? Focus on Your Writing | Embedded Executive Podcast: We Have an Engineering Shortage | From Volunteer to Major Donor | LinkedIn Gave Me Permission to Publish! What Were They Thinking?

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Navigating New Embedded Software: What Hiring Managers & Job Seekers Must Know About Rust and Zephyr

Embedded development is evolving fast—with rising code complexity and shifting product lifecycles, modern tools like Rust and Zephyr are changing the game. Discover how these technologies are addressing talent shortages, driving agile development, and reshaping hiring strategies across global markets.

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Embedded Executive Podcast: We Have an Engineering Shortage

There is an engineering shortage and if you look at the projections we’re going to need a whole lot more developers moving forward. What can we do about it?

Marcus Webster, principal of Webster & Webster Associates and a recruiter for many embedded and IoT companies, discusses potential paths forward in the Embedded Executive podcast, “We Have an Engineering Shortage.”

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Hiring in the Embedded and IoT Technology Market

Finding technical sales, marketing, and engineering professionals with experience and knowledge of the embedded and IoT technology markets can be difficult, especially if you are looking to hire them overseas.

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From Volunteer to Major Donor

When Webster moved to Washington, DC, in the 1980’s, he was finally able to volunteer with Central Union Mission. He taught computer literacy classes with the Workforce Development program.

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LinkedIn Gave Me Permission to Publish! What Were They Thinking?

If you hire anyone with four kids to put through college, they will always work hard for you! In my case, I have one down with three more to go, so I will never, ever retire and I am guaranteed to work hard for our clients and candidates.

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The Top 6 Tech Skills You Need

“Staying up-to-date with emergent technologies and trends–as well as the skills needed to master them–will help you offset the lightning-fast pace of skills disruption and keep you ahead of the curve.”

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Embedded Engineering Jobs & Controlling Your own Destiny

Lay-offs can happen at any stage of a career. Your best bet is always to stay out in front, and you do that with information. And while some recruiters don’t have time for you until they have an opening, we want to stay in touch with you throughout your career.

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Looking For a Job? Focus on Your Writing

In many cases, lacking the ability to write well can hurt engineers. For example, misspellings and bad grammar on a resume is a huge red flag.

To understand the effect it could have on an your future, listen to Marcus Webster’s advice in the Embedded Executive podcast, “Looking For a Job? Focus on Your Writing”.

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Embedded Job Market Expands, But Boomers Feel the Squeeze

The most sought after candidates are engineers with both software and hardware experience. There’s also a strong call for engineers with embedded Linux experience, and every engineer should have an object oriented language–embedded C, C++, Java, or the like–in his or her back pocket.