You're very likely a victim of age discrimination. Try updating your resume to only include the last 10 to 15 years worth of positions, remove the date of college graduation if present, if you're using a dated email server (yahoo or hotmail or such) start a gmail account. If you have a lot of...
That's their choice. Your choice is to find someplace willing to pay you and treat you 100% as an engineer.
Why would you want to do and get paid for design work, when you could get paid for engineering work? That's not making the most of your time.
So there is a good chance I'll be offered a "contract" position through a staffing agency. This would be a W2 type employment, not 1099. As I've never held this form of employment before I thought I'd ask for any wisdom that could be passed along from more experienced individuals.
Things I'm...
Ok, I believe I understand. It's a binding contract. So that means if they let you go before the end of the agreed period, they still owe you your full compensation, correct?
"Contract Engineer" is a term that gets tossed around a lot, and, as I understand it, it's supposed to be when you're a professional engineer and you contract with a customer to perform particular task, and a particular time frame. It's like one business contracting with another. To not finish...
I've been keeping an eye on the engineering market in my area, and this seems so be a trend for some of the big employers. Temporary employment for average pay (not big money like you hear about contract engineers getting), and no health coverage. Usually through an agency. I understand big...
@ ScottyUK - Does your company have no on-boarding or training procedures? Why would you wait so long for the "perfect" candidate instead of taking the best presented and improving them?
"If you've got 12 guys working four different projects simultaneously"
Four guys each working 12 different projects simultaneously, would be closer to reality for the places I've worked. And in some saying "4 guys" would be stretching the truth.
"You can get most of the punch you'd get from Microsoft Project or Primavera by simply sitting your engineers in a room, drawing up a critical path diagram on a whiteboard, assigning "days" to each task, precedents, antecedents, identifying the critical path in a different colored marker, and...
Sorry if I gave the wrong impression, I'm not a manager, and have no scheduling authority. Maybe that's why the fellow who deleted his post found it so humorous. I'm just wondering if there is an accepted format, because they just seem to wing it most of the time.
Sandcounter: Sounds like a...
Is there a management bible out there somewhere that gives guidelines for how many engineers are required for a particular sized project? For that matter how is project "size" determined? The required completion date must be in there somewhere as well I expect. Is this all from the experience...
