Can anyone refer a good recruiter for I&C work in the southeastern states? I’m not looking but know someone that is.
Thanks in advance!
I’ll confess:
I just got recruited and switched jobs, so I’ll share my story.
The recruiters that contacted me are called the MICE Group. They are based in Silicon Valley, but keeps contacts around the US and Canada. The initial contact got through my “go away” filter because they were clear and concise about the position they had to fill, and had actually looked at my Linkedin profile before contacting me about it. In this case, they also clearly stated right away that they were just doing scouting for a client, not trying to get me to contract with them, first or any other sort of arrangement. They represent a variety of engineering positions, plus project managers, executives, and other professionals. I must sound like a shil, but this is the only time I’ve every had a pleasant experience with “head-hunters” based in the USA.
Note that, now that I’m working for the new company, I get to see Mice Group from the other side - evaluating the new candidates they put forward for other engineering and management positions that are also open. My colleagues consider Mice the better of the head-hunters they use, and frustrated with the mismatched candidates that the others have put forward in the past few months.
Obviously, these guys get their pound of flesh. Probably 15% of the candidate’s starting salary.
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Yo’ Sparweb,
How are things going for you on the job?
The person looking landed a job so all is well in their world.
Pam
Hi,
I got exactly what I signed up for. Lots and lots of what I signed up for. About as much of it as I can handle, and on some weeks (like this one) even more.
I feel like I’ve been using every scrap of time-management, people-management, persuasive speaking, critical thinking, and technical knowledge I’ve collected and retained over the years. I’ve also had to learn several novel things that I simply couldn’t have anticipated. My only problem is that it comes at me like a firehose so I don’t get much time to enjoy it and chat about it with the people around me.
I won’t force you to read between the lines, if that came across as cryptic. I’m Chief Engineer of an aerospace company that is seeing business ramp up this year, but staff still hasn’t recovered from deep cuts during Covid, yet. Being short-staffed we’re always pushing to keep up with very inflexible schedules.
Trying to hire in this environment is proving to be very hard. The majority of the candidates (coming from headhunters) are completely unsuitable to our needs. I’m getting a better hit-rate from word-of-mouth and networking contacts, but even these candidates are only filling the bottom of the experience ladder, not the top.
I still hear that from the industries I’ve worked in for decades. They are still struggling w/ some supply chain problems and too many inexperienced people. All of the experienced people retired at the beginning of the pandemic. Some sectors didn’t have enough experienced engineers to begin w/ due to too many decades of too little work.
I hope you get some time to enjoy your novel knowledge in the future. But I am glad you are Chief Engineer and busy.
While on the subject, do you know any aeronautical engineers?
Design experience, analysis experience, manufacturing experience (one or all, I mean)?
I know a couple of them but they’re running their own company doing other things. I can reach out to them about their contacts. I doubt they will have any but it doesn’t hurt to try.
I’ll email them tomorrow and let you know their response including a non-response.
Wish I could help you but I got out of Aero a long time ago, Spar. There will be a probable flood of engineers coming from Boeing layoffs, but our experience has been hit-or-miss on suitability, and more miss than hit.
SparWeb, I emailed you a link to the only contact the aero engineers I know had. Slim pickens.
Thank you Pamela,
This fellow is working on his own venture. He won’t hand off good candidates to me - he’ll keep them for himself! 
Sure, and I’m seeing signs of it. However, I fear that ex-Boeing employees are likely to have been siloed for too long to be versatile enough to help me. I’m willing to be surprised, and keeping an open mind.
They’re not doing what you’re doing. But I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer so…
Slim Pickens would be a great Aero Engineer for Sparweb to work with - he knows how to ride an H-bomb! 
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I had to Google that. Dr. Strangelove. I’ve never seen it!
Anyone can ride a falling bomb.
Once.