For those of you looking, how is the job hunt going? MrFun? Anyone else?
I threw my hat into the ring a month ago as I will be finishing my MBA in December and would like to find something that could meld my engineering background with a business acumen better than designing fuel ethanol plants. That, and I make very little money compared to other engineers with my experience and the benefits are so bad that it costs me close to another $10k/year, mostly because Jace (the 1 yo) has had issues but is holding strong. I figure this conditioning is honing him into the best Linebacker ever.
I've mostly been talking to three recruiters. One is a local guy who hired me on at my last job. He was laid off with me and he started is own recruiting company after that with some success. I have asked him to look for local things for me and has yet to produce any fruit. I'm also talking to one recruiter for pharma/biotech industry. Unfortunately for her, I already submitted to a dozen or so companies directly so her pool is pretty shallow and there's a bunch of laid of pharma guys looking for work right now so that industry is pretty tight. I am also working with a recruiter who I have used in the past for the food and chemical industry and he is very responsive and has lined up for me a phone interview within 1 day of him looking. It's around Champaign-Urbana, IL, anyone know anything about the area?
On top of that I got a call today from a local consulting firm (manufacturing and business management) who I sent an unsolicited resume to, and we will be having lunch next week. Not sure what that means.
So, that's nice news after getting ripped off.
I threw my hat into the ring a month ago as I will be finishing my MBA in December and would like to find something that could meld my engineering background with a business acumen better than designing fuel ethanol plants. That, and I make very little money compared to other engineers with my experience and the benefits are so bad that it costs me close to another $10k/year, mostly because Jace (the 1 yo) has had issues but is holding strong. I figure this conditioning is honing him into the best Linebacker ever.
I've mostly been talking to three recruiters. One is a local guy who hired me on at my last job. He was laid off with me and he started is own recruiting company after that with some success. I have asked him to look for local things for me and has yet to produce any fruit. I'm also talking to one recruiter for pharma/biotech industry. Unfortunately for her, I already submitted to a dozen or so companies directly so her pool is pretty shallow and there's a bunch of laid of pharma guys looking for work right now so that industry is pretty tight. I am also working with a recruiter who I have used in the past for the food and chemical industry and he is very responsive and has lined up for me a phone interview within 1 day of him looking. It's around Champaign-Urbana, IL, anyone know anything about the area?
On top of that I got a call today from a local consulting firm (manufacturing and business management) who I sent an unsolicited resume to, and we will be having lunch next week. Not sure what that means.
So, that's nice news after getting ripped off.
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