Advice I would give to Biomedical Engineering students would be to 1. network your butt off. This means going to conferences as a freshman in college, regardless of location. Going to meet ups sponsored by companies and industry professionals. 2. Apply for a research gig within your home university or do what I did and apply outside of NJIT which actually exposed me to what I now find myself passionate in. 3. Apply for co-ops/internships even full time positions/part positions as a junior/senior who has the time. It is possible to work full time as a junior/senior. REUs for summer research also help. Basically find any possible avenue where you can become exposed to a multitude of areas in industry and research to see what area of focus truly captures your attention. From there, build your resume around your passion allowing you to shape your career how you desire.

P.S. If BME isn’t for you, learn programming languages other than MATLAB such as Python, Java and C++. Maybe Software Development can be of interest, BMEs can also apply for such jobs, given that they know certain skills.