Does anyone know where the best country in the world is for engineers? I was recently caught in a mass corporate lay off (manged to dodge the past 3) and have applied to something like 40-50 jobs, have had 2 interviews and no offers.
It could be a number of factors:
1. I have a weak resume/application package compared to the competition
2. Due to US at-will policy and rampant corporate lay offs the market is saturated and I am falling between the cracks cant quite rise to the top.
3. The job postings are not real and are instead being created to meet a corporate or govt agency requirement and instead the hire manager had someone already picked out.
What ever the case may be i cant be unemployed forever so I have been thinking about jobs outside of the USA (non middle east /African countries), Germany, Switzerland, Russia, etc.
Are there international employment agencies where I could pitch my resume and other application materials to get a gauge on where I stand. I have a BS in chemical engineering and very nearly a second BS in EE, a PE in chemical engineering and approved to sit for the EE PE as well as advanced mathematics beyond the standard engineering package. I have 13 years of experience in oil and gas but i am very interested in getting out of oil and gas, I think alot of the skills I gained in oil and gas are transferable since most of my work was design. But I have no idea if the reason for my failures is because I am competing with 20 year PhD's or if I dont know the right people or if my area (the entire USA) is massively saturated in STEM, and so as an individual engineer I just get lost in the noise.
If the issue is me and my credentials are weak and I am looking at another number of years to get the course work / certs I need then that would be one thing. If my resume is great and the area is just lame then thats a different set of decisions that will need to be made.
Is anyone else having these issues?
It could be a number of factors:
1. I have a weak resume/application package compared to the competition
2. Due to US at-will policy and rampant corporate lay offs the market is saturated and I am falling between the cracks cant quite rise to the top.
3. The job postings are not real and are instead being created to meet a corporate or govt agency requirement and instead the hire manager had someone already picked out.
What ever the case may be i cant be unemployed forever so I have been thinking about jobs outside of the USA (non middle east /African countries), Germany, Switzerland, Russia, etc.
Are there international employment agencies where I could pitch my resume and other application materials to get a gauge on where I stand. I have a BS in chemical engineering and very nearly a second BS in EE, a PE in chemical engineering and approved to sit for the EE PE as well as advanced mathematics beyond the standard engineering package. I have 13 years of experience in oil and gas but i am very interested in getting out of oil and gas, I think alot of the skills I gained in oil and gas are transferable since most of my work was design. But I have no idea if the reason for my failures is because I am competing with 20 year PhD's or if I dont know the right people or if my area (the entire USA) is massively saturated in STEM, and so as an individual engineer I just get lost in the noise.
If the issue is me and my credentials are weak and I am looking at another number of years to get the course work / certs I need then that would be one thing. If my resume is great and the area is just lame then thats a different set of decisions that will need to be made.
Is anyone else having these issues?
