Do you know any engineers out of work?
Whether I personally know, I think I might know a couple.
I’ll look it up… from data online, that’ll be a better indicator.
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Don’t worry, just say you are one of those farmers somewhere to receive a SOCIALIST welfare handout out of the what? $24 billions? 
Most engineers over 40 need to move into management or find another profession.
Doctors and Architects eat their young. Inverse for engineers.
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I do. you hiring? 
Have you started looking? I doubt you’d want to live to Seattle. It seems everyone is hiring.
I actually just did a data analytics project on hiring. I looked at how big of applicant funnel is needed to hire 1 person based on the percent that pass each step of the process. The number was 176 applicants per 1 person hired. Over 90% of applicants are so poorly qualified their resume is never shown to a hiring manager.
The data says it’s better for a company to have sources proactively contact qualified candidates vs posting on job boards and waiting for applicants. I was surprised the small percent of employee referrals that make it through the process. I’m going to start tracking where the fallout is.
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There is some truth to that. But for most professions(e.g. sales, marketing etc) it’s the same.
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Me-not yet, but I do have a friend in Boston looking for work (Ops work), and someone in Abq (programming I think).
That’s VERY interesting what you say about the hiring process. I hope that my educational background will be enough to get me to the hiring manager stage, because 8 years off isn’t a thrilling thing on a resume…
I’m thinking of applying in Nov/Dec for January.
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This approach used to be for more senior managerial employees, applying to ICs mean companies are reluctant to train employees. I recall when I just enter the work force, companies sent you to a 6-9 months training before starting actual work.
Now you get a half day or day training. It’s mostly on company history, signing up the benefits, etc. Some companies onboard people well and others have no process at all. Software tools aren’t at the consumer level yet, but they are much better. You don’t need training to learn most of them. Some include tutorial slides or videos instead of trying to up-sell training.
Also, everything has an API now for connecting or extracting data. That used to be horrible and require a lot of custom work.
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