toolsteel
Titanium
- Joined
- Nov 9, 2012
- Location
- NW Wisconsin (BFE)
The shop I work at is a decent place. Clean, good pay..58K /year base at top of scale as a machinist on the floor, there are positions that pay a bit more that can be worked in to, a bit light on vacation time, decent benefit package with profit sharing, medical, dental, life insurance, tuition reimbursement. I will admit that if you start here as an intern pay is a bit low......or if you start at the bottom of the scale it takes 3 years to top out.....where you start on the scale can be negotiated based on your experience. Anyhow.....its not a bad gig by my standards.
Here is my question(s). We seem to have a lack of applicants. Talking to HR they tell me we are advertising on a job search website. I am just shy of 50....so maybe I am considered "old school" .....but if tomorrow I needed a job I would run off about 20 copies of my resume, shave, put on some decent clothes and go knocking on some doors of shops I am aware of looking to drop off a resume and maybe, if I was in the right place at the right time get an interview. My next step would be the internet.....
Currently (I believe) if you show up here on our doorstep knocking, you are told to submit your resume on line. Is this common practice? It seems to me if I was applying for an upper management position or similar that internet contact would probably be step #1.....I wouldnt be knocking on a door. But it seems silly to me not to take someones resume from their hand and have a 5 minute sit down, if not a real interview.
I guess my real question is......is their actually a lack of machinist' right now or is our HR department burning us by expecting machinist' to act like CEO's? Or....am I out of touch (possibly more than one correct answer...lol) I havent searched for a job for 25 years.
Here is my question(s). We seem to have a lack of applicants. Talking to HR they tell me we are advertising on a job search website. I am just shy of 50....so maybe I am considered "old school" .....but if tomorrow I needed a job I would run off about 20 copies of my resume, shave, put on some decent clothes and go knocking on some doors of shops I am aware of looking to drop off a resume and maybe, if I was in the right place at the right time get an interview. My next step would be the internet.....
Currently (I believe) if you show up here on our doorstep knocking, you are told to submit your resume on line. Is this common practice? It seems to me if I was applying for an upper management position or similar that internet contact would probably be step #1.....I wouldnt be knocking on a door. But it seems silly to me not to take someones resume from their hand and have a 5 minute sit down, if not a real interview.
I guess my real question is......is their actually a lack of machinist' right now or is our HR department burning us by expecting machinist' to act like CEO's? Or....am I out of touch (possibly more than one correct answer...lol) I havent searched for a job for 25 years.
