Straight talk on hiring in machinery, plant engineering and technical field service.
How to fill open roles instead of collecting applicants: what a career page has to deliver, why applicant conversion decides who gets hired, and how to win skilled people who stay.
Travel radius in the job ad: how to state it
200 kilometres sleeping at home is a different job from four nights in a hotel. Hide it and you lose both applicant groups – and never notice.
Recruitment agency costs in machinery
15 to 25 percent of annual salary, 27.5 percent on average. Bearable once. Across several hires a year the full calculation looks different.
Calculating vacancy costs: the formula
At a factor of three the vacancy exceeds a full annual salary after 120 days. In service something else is added that appears in no cost centre.
In-house recruiting vs. agency: compared
Four routes to choose from, all with the same design flaw: they start from zero at every vacancy. Where the threshold sits for building your own system.
Finding CNC machinists: the job ad
With machinists, money rarely decides. The machine park, the shift, programming autonomy – and who calls back within 24 hours.
Skills shortage in machinery despite job cuts
The industry is shrinking in production and desperately hiring in service. Both happen inside the same company.
Response time in recruiting: 72 hours
Response rhythm is not a service promise but the selection mechanism of this market. How a company holds it, even when the service manager is out on site.
One company per specialisation and area. Every slot is currently taken.
Put your name down. As soon as a slot opens in your area we will come back to you – with an assessment, not a pitch.
What happens next
- You leave a postcode and a website. That is all we need to place your catchment area.
- We come back as soon as we can – and we decline if your area is taken or the role cannot be filled. Honestly, before you lose time.
- If it fits, we run your area together: how many suitable technicians work within range, and what the build would cost you – including when we advise against it.