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HOG ILLUSTRATIONS posted:The problem I'm facing is that i think being on the road all the time will make it impossible to interview. I have already missed a group examination for a dwp job because I had travel booked in advance and there was no way to get out of it. Are you talking to any engineering recruiters? Those folks solve problems like this, they will set up phone interviews, and if you haven't botched those, the in-person interviews for a day you're in town.
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I have not, what is the best way to find one? And is it a thing where you have to commit to one, or can I have multiple recruiters shopping me around?
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HOG ILLUSTRATIONS posted:I have not, what is the best way to find one? And is it a thing where you have to commit to one, or can I have multiple recruiters shopping me around? You can use as many as you want Don't pay for it either!
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Start with one or two recruiters, you'll find them on linkedin, or if you're in a hot market, they'll start harassing you like moths to a light. Some recruiters won't divulge the companies they are hunting for until you give them a resume, so have it ready. Also, don't be afraid to ask them for tips on how to sell yourself. They make their money by successfully getting your rear end on a seat at some firm who pays them to find folks.
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osker posted:ill, Thanks! This will help big time. I'm currently waffling between taking the Thermal Fluids/Mechanical Systems tests, but I'm leaning Thermal Fluids. I'll get the Keenan & Keyes book if I go that route, the detailed tables sound helpful.
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illcendiary posted:Thanks! This will help big time. I'm currently waffling between taking the Thermal Fluids/Mechanical Systems tests, but I'm leaning Thermal Fluids. I'll get the Keenan & Keyes book if I go that route, the detailed tables sound helpful. FYI, the Steam Table books were last printed in 1969-ish so you can get them used on amazon for like 5 bux a pop.
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Out of curiosity, how badly would it go for me if I stuck a fork in a 115V/400 Hz power outlet?
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Gorman Thomas posted:Out of curiosity, how badly would it go for me if I stuck a fork in a 115V/400 Hz power outlet? Both sides or one side? ...It'd probably go worse for the aircraft maintainer whose circuits you hosed.
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HOG ILLUSTRATIONS posted:The problem I'm facing is that i think being on the road all the time will make it impossible to interview. I have already missed a group examination for a dwp job because I had travel booked in advance and there was no way to get out of it.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Don't quit. It makes no sense. Apply for jobs, go to interviews. If you need to, call in sick, "need to take your car in", etc so you can interview. Your first job is finding a new job, focus on that. Your second job, which you need, is as a field service engineer - you are free to half-rear end this, just don't get fired. The issue is that calling in sick doesn't do any good if I'm in a different part of the country. I could call in sick, but my employer would tell me to go to the doctor/get some rest at the hotel in whatever state I'm in. For example, if I get a call on Monday, and the prospective company wants to schedule an interview for later in the week when I'm in bumfuck, nebraska or where ever, to make it to the interview I would have to cancel the whole trip and whole week's work. The other option is to schedule like 3 weeks in advance. Will potential employers be okay with that much lead time?
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CarForumPoster posted:Both sides or one side? Both sides. I asked one of our sys engineers and he shrugged and told me I'd probably die quickly.
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Gorman Thomas posted:Both sides. I asked one of our sys engineers and he shrugged and told me I'd probably die quickly. Its about the same as a home outlet. Why not test at home?
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CarForumPoster posted:Its about the same as a home outlet. Why not test at home? Apparently the human body has slightly lower impedance at 400Hz than household 60Hz. The real answer to the original question is that nothing would happen, because you've probably got a plastic fork on an airplane.
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Enourmo posted:Apparently the human body has slightly lower impedance at 400Hz than household 60Hz. Science confirms humans are literally capacitors
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PRADA SLUT posted:Science confirms humans are literally capacitors Sorry lemme make an n-dimensional matrix for all possible points of contact, skin conductivity factors, weight, height, water/salt levels in the body... As a first approximation it's fine, odds are the airplane socket would zap you just a tiny bit harder than household mains.
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HOG ILLUSTRATIONS posted:The issue is that calling in sick doesn't do any good if I'm in a different part of the country. I could call in sick, but my employer would tell me to go to the doctor/get some rest at the hotel in whatever state I'm in. For example, if I get a call on Monday, and the prospective company wants to schedule an interview for later in the week when I'm in bumfuck, nebraska or where ever, to make it to the interview I would have to cancel the whole trip and whole week's work. The other option is to schedule like 3 weeks in advance. Will potential employers be okay with that much lead time? Whet loving field do you work in where a potential employer won't let you schedule your interview time? If they propose a time that doesn't work you just say that you're busy then and propose an alternate time.
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Do employers really care that much if you're out of work anymore? I'm in software so I know it's not the same but I haven't had a job for months and nobody I've interviewed with has asked about it at all, let alone seemed concerned.
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I got hired for an out of college entry level position a year after graduation. Granted, I had a semester of grad school as an excuse, but there was still 4-5 months without anything going on.
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HondaCivet posted:Do employers really care that much if you're out of work anymore? I'm in software so I know it's not the same but I haven't had a job for months and nobody I've interviewed with has asked about it at all, let alone seemed concerned. They tend to care more in a couple situations:
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I know this may seem like it belongs more in the resume/interviews thread, but I'm more interested in hearing from my fellow engineers on this one. Have any of you MAEs (if there are many of you floating around in here) had trouble getting interviews or jobs lately? I've been applying for what feels like a decade, but the only decent job prospect I had was for a company that was doing a mass-hiring and just seemed to invite everyone who applied. I'm currently in O&G (who knows if I'll even still have a job here by the end of the day), but I live in a major aero hub, so relocation shouldn't be a factor or concern. I've been applying to these aero companies like it's nobody's business and I haven't even gotten a nibble. All this on top of the fact that a friend who worked HR at Grumman said my resume looked stellar... So wtf am I doing wrong?!
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Also bear in mind that Skype interviews are a thing now.
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Noctone posted:Also bear in mind that Skype interviews are a thing now. A pretty popular thing too, I work for a huge company that does this
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Gin_Rummy posted:I've been applying to these aero companies like it's nobody's business and I haven't even gotten a nibble. All this on top of the fact that a friend who worked HR at Grumman said my resume looked stellar... So wtf am I doing wrong?! Aero is not doing that well right now. My factory of 10,000 has 3 open positions... and those are unskilled labor.
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Yeah we have been in the boom portion of the aero cycle for way too long. I think a lot of companies are trying to get ahead of the inevitable downturn. The large company I work for is offering voluntary layoffs to cut costs.
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I know someone at Boeing in Seattle and she said they weren't really doing any hiring right now either. Bleh.
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There's always the wild world of semiconductors lol. A surprisingly broad field of disciplines are needed, though entry level stuff may be hard to find.
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How do you find out what sectors are doing good? Is this one of those mysterious benefits of networking or is there a way to glean it from the news?
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Jyrraeth posted:How do you find out what sectors are doing good? Is this one of those mysterious benefits of networking or is there a way to glean it from the news? I think doing job searches with a very wide range can help you get an idea. Too often people only look in one geographic area and either aren't able/willing to move to a different area of the country that might be hiring in their field.
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HondaCivet posted:I know someone at Boeing in Seattle and she said they weren't really doing any hiring right now either. Bleh. Boeing shut down their facility in Wichita within the last few years and relocated several of their engineers to Seattle. I'd imagine they'll have a glut until the current group starts retiring.
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Is aero overall really doing THAT bad? P&W is scooping up anyone with a degree and LHM seems to have thousands of openings on their website.
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I think it's mostly just commercial aerospace that's slow right now but there are always exceptions. I do know Lockheed Martin ADP has advertised they are currently in full out hiring spree mode for work beginning in early 2017 if that interests anyone (~100 jobs).
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Gin_Rummy posted:Is aero overall really doing THAT bad? P&W is scooping up anyone with a degree and LHM seems to have thousands of openings on their website. It took me 8 months to find an aero job when I graduated MAE (2012) and I ended as a software engineer at an avionics company. Have you tried systems engineering positions? The majority of the MAE people I graduated with are systems engineers now at Boeing/LM/NG.
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Gorman Thomas posted:It took me 8 months to find an aero job when I graduated MAE (2012) and I ended as a software engineer at an avionics company. Have you tried systems engineering positions? The majority of the MAE people I graduated with are systems engineers now at Boeing/LM/NG. Yeah, I try to apply to anything that requires a BS in aero or mechanical, which typically includes systems and project engineers. I probably wouldn't be a good fit in a software position though, as I only have a marginal background in VBA. Outside of that, I just haven't been having luck on any front 
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Does anyone know much about going to grad school in engineering? I have a BS in ME but ended up doing unrelated work (software development) for the past five years after school but it hasn't really been a good fit over time so I'm interested in getting back into engineering. I had asked about work earlier in the thread and people suggested systems engineering which sounds cool but all my undergrad work experience was research rather than industry. I am strongly leaning towards a terminal MS rather than a PhD. How does having a MS change the work you do, your employability, etc. typically? If you did it yourself are you glad you did it or not? I'd want to study the areas of controls and mechatronics and such and I'd be looking at more R&D-ish jobs, maybe even jobs at like the national labs.
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Gin_Rummy posted:Is aero overall really doing THAT bad? P&W is scooping up anyone with a degree and LHM seems to have thousands of openings on their website. neibbo posted:I think it's mostly just commercial aerospace that's slow right now but there are always exceptions. I do know Lockheed Martin ADP has advertised they are currently in full out hiring spree mode for work beginning in early 2017 if that interests anyone (~100 jobs). From what I've seen, both commercial and defense aero aren't doing too hot right now. The entire Airbus A380 product line is a stone's throw away from shutting down completely.
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Couldn't that be more of a reflection on Airbus though? I mean, they did decide to make a plane that can only land in certain airports. I feel like it's a pretty niche market and they can only sell so many to begin with...
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HondaCivet posted:Does anyone know much about going to grad school in engineering? I have a BS in ME but ended up doing unrelated work (software development) for the past five years after school but it hasn't really been a good fit over time so I'm interested in getting back into engineering. I had asked about work earlier in the thread and people suggested systems engineering which sounds cool but all my undergrad work experience was research rather than industry. I am strongly leaning towards a terminal MS rather than a PhD. How does having a MS change the work you do, your employability, etc. typically? If you did it yourself are you glad you did it or not? I'd want to study the areas of controls and mechatronics and such and I'd be looking at more R&D-ish jobs, maybe even jobs at like the national labs. I got my MSME a couple years ago while working. It was on my review as self improvement and got me another 5% on my raise the year I got my degree. I focused on control theory and heat transfer which rarely apply to my work in mfg. Now I teach part time at my school which is a lot of fun and probably the best return on the degree cost. The coursework was similar to my undergrad and very reasonable. On the other hand, my coworker just quit to chase his master's full time because he was struggling with the schedule and going to a school pretty far from work.
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bred posted:I got my MSME a couple years ago while working. It was on my review as self improvement and got me another 5% on my raise the year I got my degree. I focused on control theory and heat transfer which rarely apply to my work in mfg. Now I teach part time at my school which is a lot of fun and probably the best return on the degree cost. The coursework was similar to my undergrad and very reasonable. I'm guessing you did non-thesis track? It's cool to hear that you enjoy teaching though.  I'd probably go full-time and try to get a TA or something like that to cover the costs. I know that's harder for a terminal Master's though.
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