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DESIGN + CONSULTING ENGINEERS CAROLINE VON TuEMPLING/GETTy IMAGES find new
people and you have to stay in Schools are an excellent place to get the
touch with those contacts. messsage out about your firm's reputation
Elikai also stressed that it's important in the industry and your
excellent work on for firms to have a targeted approach high-profile
projects, she said. to recruiting, a game plan to which Additionally, she
said, engineering firms every member of the firm contributes need to
seriously advance a positive mes- at some level. Her firm has achieved its
sage about the profession to children. best recruiting results from highly
spe- We've got to broaden the pool of can- cific advertising, both online
and with didates for our industry by developing traditional media;
engineering-specific ways to reach kids in the seventh and job boards,
close contact with university eighth grades before their teachers begin
faculty members; and involvement with to channel them in other directions,
she professional associations. said. Teachers influence kids enormously
Other recruiters agreed that firms rely- in those grades. And, in general,
I don't ing on large, generalized online job sites think they're directing
them toward the such as Monster.com can quickly turn engineering industry.
n into an exercise in frustration. By submit- ting resumes to firms through
these sites, top tips says Diane Wessel, national account man- ager for Key
Corporate Services in Fishers, Ind., both applicants and firms can find
Recruiters for engineering firms themselves lost in a big black hole. have
a challenging job. But here are a few tricks of the trade that Back to
School could ease your search. For firms in the market for recently gradu-
n Never stop recruiting; it's a ated engineers, or those who will soon
constant process; graduate, other recruiters advised reaching n Tap into
the resources of out to the top engineering universities professional
associations Web through contact with faculty, career offices sites,
newsletters, job boards, etc. ; and school-sponsored job fairs. n Develop
a network of sources and We have gone to the individual schools budget the
time into your schedule and had some success with that, said to stay in
touch with them; Arlene Helfand of T.Y. Lin International, n Get to know
key engineering a civil and structural engineering firm in faculty members
at major San Franciso. universities to help locate the Likewise, Elikai
reported that her firm top young prospects; and has gotten the biggest
bang from fre- n Make it clear at your firm that q u e n t visits to
college campuses, both every employee is responsible for finding recent
graduates and upper- for recruiting at some level. classmen to work at
McKim & Creed in internship programs. 19 NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2006
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