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Hey vannrox, I seem to remember hollering with ya a few months back about this very topic... Engineering, right? You should check out some of the sites that I've been looking for jobs on-- "systems engineer", "mechanical engineer", "software engineer", "engineer-yo-mama" everywhere I look... (Hey, I shoulda gone to engineer school...!) General Atomic, Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Sandia, Jet Propulsion Lab in MD, gad-zillions of stuff on Monster and CareerBuilder.com...

gad-zillions of stuff on Monster and CareerBuilder.com

My poor poor uninformed niave friend ... most of the jobs posted on those job boards are either old or bogus. For instance ... I am a DFT expert .... search on DFT ... The Nvidia job posted there has been there for over a year. Same with the TI jobs the Apaptec job and the Sun Micro job. The "posting" are a ploy to get around the government mandate to "attempt" to find an American engineer before hiring a H1B. The worlds expert in any of these fields could apply and they would not even call them in for an interview. I know for sure ....

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FYI.

When I managed the R&D group at Holmes we kept advertisements 24-7; 360 / year. It was all HR. HR would get the resumes and round file them every month.

Four times a year we would check our budget with the five year forecast and see if we need to make some hires. If we did, then we would look at the pile in HR. Actually, we would ask them to look at it. They would then sort through the resumes.

Most Engineering Positions, except for ENTRY LEVEL (Fresh, Just Out of School), are handled by "Head Hunters".

It is quite unlikely for an "Engineering Heavyweight" to be considered for a position without a recruiter to negotiate the position for him.

I can tell you that in my over 20 years of experience, the only Engineers that I have personally hired have been through "Headhunters". I have hired some entry-levels, but they were once Interns, and we offered them some positions.

Again FYI. ...The bulk of the paper advertisments for Engineers are not directly correlated with the actual need. This is especially true with the Internet sites. Monster, for one, keeps "running ads" much like Holmes did..