Hi everyone, I am trying to make a career change, I'm a technical recruiter for engineering right now. I work for a recruitment agency, I want to try to get into either a Corporate Recruiting position (where you are an actual employee of the company your are recruiting for rather than an agency) or some sort of internal HR position. I have about 5 years of total experience and 3 years in HR/recruiting for Oil and Gas. I'm also take Cad classes but I dont see drafting opportunities coming up anytime in the near future but this is my ultimate goal so if there are any entry level jobs anyone knows of for this disclipline, that would be preferred. I have tried applying online but I end up spending 30 minutes filling out online applications and not getting any responses back. I know I can get another job doing the exact same thing I'm doing now but that would be pointless. Just wanted to see if anyone here might happen to know some people that could help, thanks in advance fellow clutchfans.
I used to want to do internal recruiting. Kind of a hard job to find from what I saw. But ya, being the Daryl Morey of a business would be fun.
Why do you want to make a career change? How old are you? It sounds like you really want to get into something creative (drafting), but will settle for recruiting with a salary or HR for the stability. I went through the same thing in the late 90s. I had a very financially successful career in sales (benefits consultant for school employees), but it wasn't fulfilling at all. I decided to throw it all in to IT. I'm 1000% happier at work now, even though I don't make close to what I did then. In the end, it's about quality of life- and that's being happy with what you do. If this sounds like you, I would say keep doing what you're doing but your time and energy into getting into drafting.
I'm in the same boat, there is high turnover where I work and I'm actually one of the last remaining members left from when I first started, but the job is never safe, you have a couple of slow months and you are endangered of getting fired. I think I have a little more lee way just because I have a reputation here and have survived through the economic downturn but still it is stressful none the less. Any type of sales or commission environment means you don't direct control the outcome of your work, I can put in 80 hours of long hard work and still not get results because of external factors outside of my control. In either HR or drafting, you dont have those factors, you work hard and know what your doing, work will be done and you will be productive. Sales/recruiting, no so much. You can work on a job opening for a whole week just to find out that your client has filled the role internally without having to pay a fee so they could have very well sacrificed quality to save on cost.
Are you good at recruiting? If so, did you ever think about doing it for yourself? Create a website, doing some lead capture, branding, the whole works. You wont have anyone breathing down your back and will be free to transition to the next field. More creativity, less stress.
I've thought about that but I'm trying to get out of the agency recruiting world all together, wouldn't make sense for me to start my own business and have more stress added on.
I would have thought a recruiter would be better at the job-hunt game. It sounds like you're not working too hard at it, if you're just spending 30 minutes to fill out some online apps. You'll need to invest some time with networking and asking around (like you are doing here). Pick some companies you want to work for. Find someone who works at each one that you know or have some association with (fellow alum, fellow congregant, whatever) and ask him to help you find a way in.
