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Crazy Job Market

What's the CMM job market like near you?

I live and work in the far northern outskirts of Chicago. There is a fair amount of industry around me, but there are typically only two or three CMM job openings at a time within my commuting area. Most of them are normally the same few jobs that nobody wants or they just don’t pay enough.

However, right now it seems like there are quite a few jobs available near me that I'd be happy to take if I didn't already have a good thing going. Also, where I work we have been down a CMM programmer for many months and recently lost two more who left for greener pastures. HR tells me that no one is even applying, let alone anyone with good qualifications! We are working to build talent from within, but it's going to take some time.

How about you?
Are you currently understaffed? Or should I say, more understaffed than usual?
Do you see a lot more job openings near you?
Am I the only one dumb enough to do this for a living? What am I missing here?
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  • those two are the gold standard. monsterdotcom works as well

    you can also search for AS9100 & ISO 13485 companies online, cold call them, i've gotten a job like that before
  • I've used both Indeed and Linkedin with success, but I found my last job using CareerBuilder.

    Once I made a profile I got a lot of calls from recruiters on there (about one a week). I hadn't had many people contact me for going on a year until the last 6 months after that. In Michigan, people are hiring like crazy so that is likely different depending on location
  • I go old school (on top of indeed/monster/linkedin)... I physically locate (google maps, etc) companies within the area of where I'm willing to travel/relocate, then stalk them on the interwebs, eventually finding their careers page, and apply for them directly, within their website.

    Look for Medical manufacturing, Aerospace, Defense, Industrial Machining, automotive, electromechanical, gear manufacturers, other precision machining houses, even calibration labs. You should also consider other major OEM's (EX: Corning, Honeywell, GE, etc) as they have facilities all over the place and their proverbial fingers in many pies.