Tag: Engineering Recruitment Agencies
How to Attract Young Engineers
Graduating college students can be an excellent source of new hires. But if you’re still recruiting on campus the way you did 30 years ago, luring students to your career fair booth with free pizza and T-shirts, you’re never going to attract the candidates you want. You also won’t get far by paying for email… Read more »
How Much Does a Staffing Agency Charge? Part 1: Mandatory Fees
If you’re considering working with a staffing agency such as PEAK, your first thought might be, “How much will this cost?” It is true that employers pay for staffing services, but exactly how much you pay may be different from what you expect. In this two-part series, we’ll break down the costs and pricing models… Read more »
Engineers Are Trying to Solve the World’s Biggest Problems
In many ways, engineers hold the keys to the future, solving some of the biggest and most perplexing challenges facing the world today. Whatever type of engineering your company focuses on, you might be involved in some way in addressing some of these problems. Here are a few of the biggest issues engineers are working… Read more »
How to Improve Your Engineering Managing Style
Naturally, you can’t lead an engineering team without top quality people skills and some strong technical knowhow. But that’s just the beginning. To become a truly excellent engineering manager, you’ll need to move beyond the basics. Here are some tips. Communicate Communication may be a basic skill, but it’s also the foundation for your entire… Read more »
Retain Your Top Engineering Talent With These 4 Tips
Turnover is an expensive problem for engineering teams. It can cost anywhere from one to two times an employee’s salary to replace them. The higher up or the engineer is on the ladder or the more specialized their role is, the more costly it becomes to replace them. Here are five tips to help you… Read more »
Meet Gary Burgess, Engineering’s All-Star Utility Player
Gary Burgess has established himself as a competent and highly valuable “utility player” in the field of contract engineering. Just like in sports, the versatile mechanical process engineer has developed the ability to play any number of roles and perform at a high level when his name is penciled into the starting lineup at a… Read more »
Are You Making These Common IT Resume Mistakes?
Your resume is a hiring manager’s introduction to who you are as an IT professional. If you have been applying to jobs every week and you are not landing interviews, the problem could lie with your resume. There are several common IT resume mistakes that many job seekers make, but those mistakes are usually simple… Read more »
Three Ways to Improve Your IT Hiring Process
Hiring skilled, qualified IT professionals has never been more of a challenge. However, if you’re finding qualified candidates but not closing the deal, the problem could rest with your hiring process. Overhauling your whole process likely isn’t realistic, so if you’re losing top tech candidates to competitors, here are three simple ways you can improve… Read more »
Best Ways to Attract Passive Engineering Candidates
There is a very real shortage of STEM professionals in the U.S., and the gap is not likely to close any time soon. Couple that with historically low unemployment levels, and it is extremely difficult to find the right candidates for engineering roles. In order to fill critical positions, hiring managers need to branch out… Read more »
How to Help Your Engineers Hit the Ground Running on Day 1
When you hire an engineer, your expectations are high and you want them to start making valuable contributions as quickly as possible. If you’re hired the right person, they also want to hit the ground running. The best way to help a new engineer learn the ropes and start focusing on critical tasks is to… Read more »