Straight talk on hiring in machinery, plant engineering and technical service.
How you fill open roles instead of collecting applicants: what a career page has to deliver, why applicant conversion decides hires, and how you win skilled people who stay.
The travel radius belongs in the first line, not the fourth interview
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.
What a recruitment agency costs in machinery – and when it stops paying off
15 to 25 percent of annual salary, 27.8 percent on average. Bearable once. Across eight to twelve hires a year the full calculation looks different.
Calculating vacancy costs in machinery: what the open role really costs
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 – and costs more.
In-house recruiting or agency: the calculation almost nobody makes
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: four details that decide the application
With machinists, money rarely decides. The machine park, the shift, programming autonomy – and who calls back within 24 hours.
22,000 jobs cut, 123,000 unfilled: the contradiction nobody addresses
The industry is shrinking in production and desperately hiring in service. Both happen inside the same company.
Answer on day three and you negotiate against a signature
Response rhythm is not a service promise but the selection mechanism of this market.
One company per area. See if yours is still open.
A field service technician hired in fourteen days. A machining company with three candidates for two roles in the first month. No magic pill – a system that stays in the company afterwards. The feasibility check tells you whether your role can be filled in your catchment area. If it cannot, we decline before you spend a cent. One company per field and area.
What happens on the first call
- We run the numbers on your catchment area: how many suitable skilled workers are within range and whether your role can be filled there.
- You see the filled cases with role, company size and time to hire – and you may question every figure.
- You learn what the build costs in your case. Including when we advise against it.