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Old 11-25-2012, 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Sparks67 View Post
Usajobs is for the federal goverment, which is the largest employer for engineers. I never used Indeed.com, but it could limit you in ways. Some people will only search on their career field or location. This can limit your chances of finding a job. For example, you want to be in Atlanta. Well, I got only 10 hits for Atlanta on Engineer. I changed the search terms in Usajobs to "Engineer" and "GA". I get 23 hits. Now one of the positions is a Mechanical Engineer position at Warner Robins, GA. Well, you are within a 2 hour trip to Atlanta.


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Warner Robbins has a very different landscape than the Northern part of the state. That's one thing I do love about Georgia. It's very different north to south and east to west. I grew up in Savannah which is nothing like Athens and Atlanta. Warner Robbins wouldn't do it for me just like Savannah won't either, though.

You bring up good points about the search terms etc. It's why I only type engineer and put it at a 100 mile radius. I don't need to be in the metro area. Also, I have no idea what all is out there so I go broad based by just using engineer. I've also looked at some other broad based job titles.

I never knew the federal government employed the most engineers. Interesting.
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