In our region’s highly-competitive engineering market, hiring managers must continually seek suitable candidates to fill engineering positions to round out their teams and grow their businesses. A critical step in the process of efficiently screening a potential new employee is a phone interview. Successful Phone Interviewing for Managers: Tips from[...]

Throughout every engineer’s career, he or she must participate in conversations with hiring managers when seeking new employment or a new position within their current firm. The typical tool for initiating this process is a phone interview. Just as your resume is designed to outline your strengths as an engineering[...]

At various points throughout every engineer’s career, he or she must participate in a conversation with a hiring manager – or a group of managers – regarding employment status. Whether you seek employment with a new firm or a new position with your current employer, this conversation, and the entire[...]

Engineering is widely considered a rewarding and potentially lucrative career choice, with a broad spectrum of disciplines in which to specialize, along with annual salaries that may exceed $100k with practical work experience. Engineers generally tend to earn more than the national average salary and engineering salaries are expected to rise over[...]

One of the most interesting aspects of operating an engineering staffing firm is the firsthand opportunity to witness trends in engineer salaries for the most common and popular engineering disciplines. Job-seekers and employers constantly seek to keep pace with the ever-changing engineering salary landscape, to ensure they position themselves to[...]

In evaluating the comparative career progress and employer-measured worth of men and women across the country, no single metric is more broadly used than wage comparisons.  During recent years, study upon study has been released showing how the genders measure up to each other from a purely financial perspective in[...]

In our profession, we are fortunate to work with engineers through the entire career spectrum – from those still in school and beginning to think about future career opportunities, to seasoned engineering managers/directors/vice presidents either seeking their next career challenge or searching for talent to grow their current engineering team.[...]

Interviewing for engineering staff can be stressful – even for hiring managers. The employment law landscape changes frequently and can be confusing, particularly if you don’t interview regularly. As such, if you’re planning to add engineering staff early next year now may be a good time to review your company’s[...]

An experienced engineering recruiter can be a valuable partner as you ponder your next career move. Your recruiter probably works with multiple companies in the region and can provide insight and guidance once he or she gets to know you and understands your past and current professional circumstances. To that[...]

Numerous New England firms are continuing to turn to contractors to meet their staffing needs. Lingering economic uncertainty and rising costs associated with permanent employment leave many companies hesitant to commit to hiring permanent staff. If you are among this group of firms, here are some tips to successfully integrate[...]