60 Min says US manufacturing needs us!

[indieFan]

As a manufacturing engineer that has finally found a job after 8 months of searching, I have to weigh in on this.

The current methods of recruiting people are horrible. Here are the steps:
1. Get electronic resume and have computer program scan for keywords.
2. Pass that stage and have recruiter scan resume for 6 seconds, at best.
3. Pass that stage and receive a screening phone call by recruiters that have no clue what anything means in your field. (I actually had one recruiter tell me that she was unfamiliar with engineering stuff. Then asked me if I had solid modeling experience in CAD. I rattled off a list of programs I was familiar with. She then asked me again. I told her yes.)
4. Pass the screening phone call and get an in-person or phone interview with hiring manager/team.
5. Get job declination or job offer. If it's a declination, chances are you're going to wait a significant amount of time and then get a form email that states they've decided to go with "someone whose skill set more closely matches what they're looking for".

Between recruiters not knowing what is actually needed and lack of feedback from interviewers, it is incredibly difficult for hopeful employees to know what is needed and get across that their skill set matches.

Personally, I think a story about recruiters at these companies not understanding the positions should be done. I know stories about the software systems have been done.

indieFan