For most aerospace companies in the United States, recruiting is not part of their core competency. It does not change the fact that they are running a business in which bringing in fresh talents and experienced professionals is key to growth and steady improvement. According to the BLS, the demand for aerospace engineers is expected to see a sizable increase thanks to rapid development in space technologies and the manufacturing of drones for special purposes such as disaster detection and prevention.
Despite the positive outlook, the aerospace industry in certain states like California, Florida, and Texas remain unable to meet the demand in recent years, with an average of only 0.5 employment per thousand jobs available. There are several possible reasons: companies have problems with direct hire, face difficulties finding the right workforce for job openings, or shortage of workforce in the area.
The great news is that the United States has plenty of recruiters specializing in aerospace engineering services. Many of them are located in California, in places like Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Long Beach, Sacramento, San Jose, Irvine, and other major cities.
Based in Glendale, California, CAD Crowd is a hybrid recruiting agency that offers efficient solutions for businesses’ temporary and permanent staffing requirements. They also provide flexible project-based staffing services and executive search to fill leadership roles in companies. Backed by a pool of more than 100,000 professionals in the aerospace engineering sector, CAD Crowd implements both manual review and a proprietary AI shortlisting system based on talents’ educations, skill sets, past work experiences, certifications, and employment histories, to name a few.
CAD Crowd takes pride in delivering personalized services through an in-depth analysis of the client’s staffing necessities, company culture, job qualifications, and contract-related requirements. Thanks to a broad range of customized solutions, a massive database of potential candidates, and specialized team of headhunters in aerospace engineering sector, CAD Crowd is the outright best recruiter in California, if not the entire United States.
Compared to most recruiters in the aerospace sector, Alpha Apex is a much more specialized option as it places heavy emphasis on finding talents for only a handful of positions, including aircraft design experts, propulsion system specialists, safety engineers, and quality assurance professionals. The recruiting process involves not only initial technical evaluations and competency analysis but also thorough reference checks and long-term support to ensure seamless integration and that the selected talents make positive impacts on the new organizations.
When looking for talents to fill engineering roles and executive positions, most aerospace companies are more likely to feel comfortable working with a recruiter agency that has extensive experience in the same industry sector. BOB Search has been in the business for more than 40 years and has so far compiled an impressive recruitment portfolio filled with big names like Senior Aerospace, SunSource, Hart & Cooley, and Equipois. It is said that BOB’s proprietary Performance-Based Search System can pinpoint candidates’ specific capabilities and professional backgrounds that precisely conform with clients’ orders.
A versatile hiring plan and no-cost guarantee before recruitment are only a mere fraction of DAVRON’s capabilities. Based in Tampa, Florida, the recruiter has been delivering ideal candidates for various aerospace companies nationwide since 1998. Many of the companies in its portfolio are government agencies and clients who work with the United States Department of Defense. It specializes in aerospace, mechanical engineering, and manufacturing employment necessities.
Educational background and experiences matter a great deal, but Integress takes special interest in ensuring that the candidates are culturally fit to work in clients’ companies. Integress is an expert in finding candidates to fill various positions, from C-suite leaders to technical specialists in the aerospace engineering field. Its recruiting process is consultative in nature, where clients can freely communicate their staffing specifications and job parameters. Permanent and temporary staffing services are available.
There is no fit-for-all headhunting method with CSI Executive Search because everything can be tailored in accordance with every client’s requirements. The screening procedures and evaluation techniques are all proprietary, but everything is geared toward providing customized staffing services. CSI only prefers candidates who meet, not only the qualification requirements, but also empirically suitable for retention. Notable clients include Reagan Equipment, Linde Engineering North America, VACCO Industries, and Canal Barge.
Headhunter services from Aviation Recruiting cover many different staffing necessities, whether high-volume recruitment or individual talent acquisition. However, the agency focuses on just a few positions in the aerospace sector, including C-level executives, flight crew, pilots, and aircraft engineers. All services are customizable to cater to clients’ needs for long-term collaboration and immediate hiring priority. Aviation Recruiting is known for its candidate quality guarantee.
Among the most notable clients who worked with 180 Engineering for their staffing needs are Caterpillar, Global Eagle, Rexnord, and Penumbra. The recruiter takes the extra mile with every recruitment process, which may include in-depth consultation with clients’ hiring managers, stringent technical screening, and a thorough review of every candidate’s engineering experience.
An extensive look at a candidate’s personality has become one of Keller’s highlight points. In addition to a complete review of talents’ engineering skills and track record, each must pass a detailed assessment on motivational drivers, work ethics, and preferences for career development paths. Keller also makes sure that every candidate who passes all the initial screening processes has a professional culture that aligns with the new company/position. Another potential advantage of Keller is how it aggressively hunts for industry talents, even those who are not actively seeking new opportunities.
While it is true that Sigma Recruitment is based in the United Kingdom, the recruiter runs its operation on an international scale and is experienced in headhunting services all across the United States, Canada, European Union, South Korea, South Africa, Australia, and China. Pre-screening assessments on hard skills and experience are standard practice, but the recruitment process also involves deep analysis to see whether the candidates would feel comfortable with the prepared package and role requirements.
The basic operational principle of Korn Ferry’s staffing processes is to bridge the gap between talent management and talent recruitment. In addition to finding and selecting candidates to fill specific roles, the recruiter also helps clients nurture young potential clients (who are not yet ideal for the available vacancies at the moment) into capable professionals to fulfill the same or alternative positions in the future. Korn Ferry thrives in an industry landscape that emphasizes DE&I in talent acquisitions.
Engineer recruitment services from Stanton Chase cover a broad range of sectors in the aerospace industries, including drone manufacturers, navigation system providers, OEMs, and radar parts suppliers. Since the search focuses on finding experienced engineers to fill executive positions, Staton Chase mostly looks for top-tier referrals, who possesses both technical expertise and deep understanding of market demands. Multicultural sensitivity and solid relationships with commercial, as well as government agencies are the basic requirements to pass the evaluation assessment.
Few recruiters come close to Frank Jay & Associates when it comes to experience, network, and expertise. An impressive track record follows their trail over the course of 30 years in the recruitment business. They are probably not the biggest recruitment agency in the country, but the narrow specialization in the Aerospace, Aviation, and Airline industries allows them to boast a remarkable and consistent 95% success ratio (candidates retained to talents hired) throughout the decades.
As a comparison, the national industry average is only 65%. Furthermore, around 90% of searches were completed within 100 days. The best thing is that nearly all candidates (more than 95%) from the agency stay in their new positions on a long-term basis. In the event the hired candidates move to new opportunities, Frank Jay & Associates are willing to replace them with equally competent alternatives at no additional charge.
The recruitment process by Zimco Expert Staffing is as straightforward as it can possibly get. It starts with an evaluation of the client’s requirements through an initial interview, followed by a screening procedure that involves an assessment of candidates’ qualifications. There will be a pre-employment interview before the clients make the decision to hire selected talents. Zimco Expert Staffing also offers long-term analysis to further discover employees’ interest, references, and competence improvement.
Unlike most staffing agencies on the list, Avjobs Recruiting is not necessarily an agency in the traditional sense. Instead, it works by providing a web interface with which employers are presented with a large pool of talents of different qualifications to fill specific job roles. It is, in essence, an aviation recruiting SaaS (software as a service).
Every talent in search of a new job opportunity is required to submit a detailed resume, which may include basic information like skill set, education, location, and experience, as well as specific data such as employment history, past supervisors’ names, award, honors, achievements, certifications, license, specialized training, and verification contacts.
More than 1,760 job positions in the aerospace and defense sectors have been filled by candidates from Marymont Group. About 94% of the placements remain in the same organizations that hired them. The recruiter focuses mainly on headhunting experienced or senior engineers to fill leadership positions. To pass the selections, candidates must at least possess remarkable technical expertise and a deep understanding of the financial market in related sectors.
Many staffing agencies are usually filled with HRD professionals. Precision Personnel Recruiting makes the distinction as its team of headhunters includes former aerospace engineers who have first-hand experience and expertise in the industry. The biggest advantage is that the team can rely on a collective understanding of aerospace engineering positions’ requirements, ensuring that every candidate makes for a perfect fit each time. Precision Personnel Recruiting also offers services to employees in need of a guidance to better navigate their careers.
A direct-hire staffing firm, Aviation Recruiting promises a candidate-quality guarantee. It boasts a specialized team of headhunters comprised of professionals with extensive aviation-related experience. Similar to many other agencies, it uses a proprietary database of candidates with varied specializations including commercial, defense, and aerospace industries at large. Aviation Recruiting makes sure that every candidate has the chance to review the compensation package before signing the employment agreement.
There are 33 offices all across the United States and Canada from which Johnson Service Group runs its recruiting operations. Established in 1984, it now hires around 200 internal staff and works with at least 3,000 contractors across its territories. The recruiter specializes in the aerospace and defense sectors, working with both commercial businesses and the military. JSG is known to provide only quality talents to fill job positions in aircraft engineering design, development, maintenance/repair, and project management.
A typical staffing agency’s business operations revolve around transactional services, such as screening and placements, but Murray Resources might be more accurately regarded as workforce consultants rather than recruiters. The focus is not solely on filling job positions with the right candidates because the process is also aimed at decreasing the employment turnover rate in the aerospace sector. The proprietary assessment procedure helps clients reduce labor costs without sacrificing their chances of securing quality candidates.
Many things can be said about how good Aerotek is at what it does. Aerotek is an industrial recruiter and a consistent Best of Staffing Award winner, an honor shared only by a mere 1% of all firms everywhere. The award simply means that the recruiting services from Aerotek receive high praise from both the clients and the candidates involved in the process. A big portion of its business targets in-demand workers such as electricians and plumbers, but it also takes pride in providing recruitment services for FAA-regulated companies, including government contractors.
Among the few recruiting agencies that have tapped into the power of AI technology, Aquent stands out from the crowd with its extensive line of services for a broad range of industries. When most staffing agencies choose to specialize in specific sectors, Aquent opts to improve their core competency in the actual recruiting business – regardless of the industries – while expanding the coverage/marketplace. In the event clients are not satisfied with the talents delivered to their doorsteps, Aquent promises to refund all the cost plus an additional 10%.
Not only does Aviation Personnel International claim to be the longest-running aviation recruiting firm, but it also has the broadest database of vetted candidates, both active and passive job seekers. Most of the candidates are suitable to fill such roles as leaders, pilots, schedulers, dispatchers, and maintenance professionals. Services are available for the Part 91 flight department, too.
Reaction Search International staffing agency has worked with major names in the aviation industry such as Boeing, Airbus, United Technologies, Rolls Royce, Bombardier, and ATR. However, it offers staffing services for individual clients as well. RSI is known for its extensive portfolio of talents for various positions, from C-suite roles and vice presidents to non-executive staff and field leaders.
The staffing services from USTECH Solutions focus on several sectors, including Aerospace, IT, Pharmaceuticals, Retail, and Financial. Each sector has its own separate/specialized team that works solely within the relevant industries. The delivery model is somewhat unique as it promises to reduce the recruiting cost by 15% to 60% on the client’s side, compared to the traditional hiring method. Staffing services are available for both permanent and contractual-based recruitments.
The agency handles end-to-end recruitment processes in the highly specialized fields of aerospace engineering and defense systems for clients nationwide while navigating all the necessary security clearances. All candidates from PEAK intended for placements are security-cleared in compliance with the Department of Defense requirements. PEAK also employs security clearance verification in accordance with the Department of Homeland Security regulations.
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Recruitment process is addressed from two different fronts simultaneously. On the one hand, Butler implements the standard practice of utilizing an extensive database of candidates to meet the current demand for talents. On the other hand, it works by leveraging a proprietary resource development geared toward multi-skill training program for future allocations.
Staffing services from Sterling are employee-owned in its entirety. Sterling also claims to have one of the nation’s largest proprietary databases of engineers and manufacturing companies, compiled since 1969. In the aerospace sector, it offers services mainly for international companies to cover their staffing necessities whether on contract, direct hire, or contract-to-hire basis. Sterling is a Managed Service Provider, which means the agency handles recruitment management and oversees staffing processes on behalf of clients.
Personalized recruitment programs from Gables Search Group are available for both large corporations and small businesses in the aerospace sector. Staffing processes are simplified thanks to the group’s dedicated point of contact, who is tasked with communicating (to the clients) every step of the recruitment program, from the initial screening phase to candidates’ orientation. It does not really specialize in the aerospace sector but claims to have extensive services for every discipline in all industries.
The staffing services from Belcan are done through a Resource & Workforce delivery model, in which the agency provides customer-specific workforce programs for every client. Belcan focuses on candidates to fill positions in the design, engineering, supply chain, quality control, and manufacturing sectors of the aerospace and defense industries. All solutions and procedures are in compliance with the Department of Defense, NASA, and FAA standards.
While there is no one solution fits all in fulfilling recruitment and staffing necessities for every company, CAD Crowd implements all the standard practices that any aerospace and aviation client may expect from a professional staffing agency and then some. By combining meticulous manual reviews with an advanced AI-powered shortlisting system, we make sure that every candidate is carefully selected from a database of pre-vetted talent. This approach guarantees that each candidate meets even the most demanding client requirements. Contact us today for a free quote.
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