How to Hire Engineers with the Most Efficiency

To recruit engineers, as with any skill hire, you’ll need to understand the depth of the position, the technology or space you’re in, and the skills necessary in order to be successful. Targeted recruitment strategies are required in order to help you expand your brand’s reach. Specialized professional recruitment agencies like Brightwing have dedicated teams with deep networks and insights in their respective industries. Our engineering recruiters leverage their 50 plus years of combined experience to attract, find, and hire engineers for the right job. Recruitment works best when you treat your recruiting agency as a partner, collaborating on job qualifications, responsibilities, and expectations – aka defining your engineering hiring process. 

Before posting any ads or fielding any candidates, you must first identify what you need. Define the job role and skill requirements. 

To hire engineers with the talent and skills you’re looking for, you need an engineer job description that is clear and informative. 

Above are some practical approaches to crafting effective engineering job descriptions. A talent partner and recruitment agency like Brightwing can help you capture all these details and more to find and hire the right fit for the job. 

The final step in hiring engineers is interviewing and onboarding. In a traditional hiring process, you might structure your interview to evaluate both technical aptitude and synergy with the workplace culture and ideals. However, if you’re trying to hire with optimal efficiency, using a recruitment service like Brightwing helps streamline your HR hiring process. Engineering recruiters take the time to get to know individual client teams, their needs, and their overall company. This “getting to know you” phase paired with intuition that never fails us allows our engineering recruiters to identify the best-fitting engineers. No more sifting through a stack of hardly vetted resumes and second-guessing your decisions – qualified, talented, and available candidates are your options. 

While having established HR hiring processes and the best recruiting resources in place – recruiting and maintaining top talent all comes down to one thing: your employer brand.  Your company’s values, work culture, and employer brand reputation will ultimately determine your success in hiring – and retaining – engineers. If you haven’t already, get a pulse about how past candidates have reviewed your organization. If you’ve received difficult feedback, it may be time to introspect as an organization and possibly promote your employer brand through social channels. 

At the heart of your employer brand are the values you drive. Does your recruitment marketing material align with your brand values and what you look for in candidates? Do you have employee stories sharing their experiences working at your organization? Industry-wide awards, recognitions, and certifications of excellence add additional rapport to your employer brand. Additionally, taking on relevant social initiatives adds an emotional connection and loyalty to your brand. Lastly, keep your brand active and top of mind for active candidates. Make yourself present at industry events, job fairs, universities, etc. 

Oftentimes the engineering recruitment process misses details about the nature of the job, salary, and benefits. When this miscommunication happens, the candidate may turn down the offer at the end of the process.

Brightwing’s engineering recruiters know the industry inside and out. Our locations in Metro Detroit and Dallas-Fort Worth are comfortable navigating the nuances of industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, process engineering, and more thanks to years of experience working with high-profile clients to place candidates with specified technical expertise. With thousands of job placements under our belts, the Brightwing team understands the latest developments in the field. That knowledge is an enormous advantage that not every employment staffing agency can offer. That’s why our interview-to-hire rate exceeds the national average by nearly 40%. If you are looking for cutting-edge engineering candidates, contact Brightwing today.