The Role of Engineering in Architectural Firms is Growing
The future of architectural and design firms in the United States looks bright. According to data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the architectural market is expected to grow 7% by 2024. Thanks to progress in Congress on federal infrastructure initiatives and a healthy overall marketplace, architectural firms are in a good frame of […]
5 Advantages of Hiring Through a Recruiting Firm
As anyone who has ever had to hire for a position knows, there’s a big difference between finding someone to do the job, and finding the right person for the job. For those who want to maximize their likelihood of doing the latter rather than the former—especially for highly skilled or specialized fields—the answer is […]
Kansas Engineering Receives Education Boost from Wichita-Based Aviation Company
The Wichita-based aviation company Textron has made headlines with their generous donation to Kansas State University’s College of Engineering. The manufacturer of Cessna airplanes is giving the school a whopping $100,000, which is specifically earmarked for supporting women in engineering. On top of the cash amount, the company is also building the Textron Aviation Women […]
Those with Mechanical Engineering Experience are in High Demand in Kansas City
Mechanical engineering has rapidly become one of the fastest growing fields in the country, with Forbes reporting an increase of close to 22,000 jobs in just a four-year period. What’s more, their report anticipated even more growth over the next five years. One of America’s most important fields is only going to get bigger, and […]
How to Attract Talented Workers to Your Company from Other Cities
If you live in Kansas City, you know it’s one of the best-kept secrets in the country. And if you’ve tried to attract talent from outside the metro area to KC, you might have found that it’s a little too well-kept! All that is changing, however, as more and more people are discovering Kansas City—Travel […]
Kansas City Earns a Top Ranking Among Other Metro Areas for Jobs
When it comes to metro areas rich in employment opportunities, Kansas City has long been one of the best-kept secrets in the country. That’s about to change, however: a national contract recruiting firm for the engineering industry just named Kansas City the fourth best metro area in which to find a job in 2017. There […]
60% of Millennials are Open to New Job Opportunities
According to a recent survey conducted by Gallup, millennials are dramatically transforming today’s workforce. It turns out that a growing number of millennials—which refers to individuals born between 1980 and the mid-nineties—feel little to no investment in their current employment, with an estimated 60% of this group claiming that they are open to new job […]
The War for Top Talent in the U.S. is Heating Up
As of August 2016 the unemployment rate in the United States was 4.9 percent, and in Kansas and Missouri the rates are currently 4.4 and 5.1 percent, respectively. Where household debt, taxation, and overall economic growth are concerned, these numbers, provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are great news for denizens of the nation. […]
The Percentage of Women in the Engineering Workforce is Steadily Growing
Women’s participation in engineering and other STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields has been historically low, a reality that has been widely attributed to the influence of gender stereotyping in the educational and workforce domains. That being said, recent years have witnessed a substantial uptick in the number of women studying and working in […]
Construction Sector Employment Sees Largest Increase Since December 2008
The United States construction sector, like every industry, has seen its ups and downs, with jobs—and thus employment rates—routinely vacillating in accord with the up- and downswings of the national economy. The good news is that in the past year alone national construction employment rates have seen a 3% growth overall, while between October and […]