Is Engineering Drying up in Huntsville, AL?

[YugoGVX]

I've been casually looking for employment in the Huntsville, AL area for a while. I used to search usajobs.gov for electrical engineering positions in Huntsville and get pages of jobs. I searched today and found exactly one job. Has it really gotten this bad even in Huntsville, which boasts the highest concentration of engineers in the country? Are private sector jobs also this hard to come by in Huntsville? A quick search of Indeed.com returns mixed quality results.

See for yourself:

http://jobsearch.usajobs.gov/search...e,+al&x=0&y=0&brd=3876&vw=b&FedEmp=N&FedPub=Y

 

[Ron]

Maybe it actually has the highest concentration of engineers and that's why there are no jobs available. Huntsville is a relatively small, limited scope market....NASA and automotive.

 

[IRstuff]

And MICOM.

Certainly, the job market everywhere is on the cool side.

TTFN

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[jgailla]

A friend who works at Army Corps told me they have a hiring freeze until the budget mess gets worked out. I go to usajobs frequently and it has also dried up completely in my area.

 

[brandonbw]

Does anyone else hear from their non engineering friends how easy it is to find a public job now that Obama has given some sort of magical funds to start work on infrastructure?

I feel like the opposite is happening out here in California. Caltrans job posting for the entire state is like 10 jobs at some points. A lot of cities are on hiring freezes with furloughed days and getting rid of people left and right. Of course this is California where everything is going down the drain right now.

B+W Engineering and Design
Los Angeles Civil and Structural Engineering

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[msquared48]

I thought that one arm of Boeing was at least in the vicinity of Huntsville...?

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
Motto: KISS
Motivation: Don't ask

 

[thruthefence]

"magical funds"

Not Magic, just good old printing presses.
Or more correctly in this day & age, credits from the 'Fed'.

In any case, the results are the same.

 

[brandonbw]

thruthefence: Your whole paragraph to me still said magic with Unicorns watching the show.

I have some good buddies working at some govt positions and they are mentioning how layoffs are about to happen. Oddly enough some of these positions might keep the younger guys and lay off the older guys completely with none of the crazy benefits that the older guys were getting about 5 years ago. I have to assume that Cali is on the cutting edge of how to not run a state properly, so this may be coming to every town next.

I have to bite my tongue and lips and everything right now.

B+W Engineering and Design
Los Angeles Civil and Structural Engineering

http://bwengr.com

 

[plasgears]

It was during a similar climate that I made the transition from defense industry to private industry. I went from jet engines to chem plant equipment to plant engineering. You need to decide to move to large job and labor markets like Chicago, but not for when you retire.