Good morning everyone,
Let me lay down the situation...
I'm a Mechanical Design Engineer at Boeing in Everett, WA and been here a little over 4 years. I've read through this topic many times and unfortunately could never contribute... until now!
I'm neither a hiring manager nor going to bend over backwards for someone I don't personally know, but I am willing to read a resume and cover letter that were written for a particular job requisition and possibly critique it and drop it off with the hiring manager.
Let me be clear when I say "...for a particular job requisition...,"
What I have been told multiple times by managers looking for employees is that they want to see that the applicant read the job description and incorporated key characteristics of the description into the resume and cover letter. The Managers don't really want to see what you've done the last twelve years; they want to see how you can fill the open position. What can you bring to the job responsibilities listed that no one else can? Set yourself apart by reading the description and responding to the needs mentioned.
Everyone knows that Boeing is hiring like crazy and everyone should be aware that the commercial airplane business is cyclic; this means there are high ups and low downs, which we saw after 9/11. The current outlook seems stable until 2009 or better with multiple projects in the pipeline, but nothing is guaranteed.
I regularly receive emails asking if I know someone that would be interested or qualified for certain positions, but no one in particular comes to mind so I thought I would get a feel for how many engineer/scientists are currently looking for employment here on Anandtech and try to help a colleague out, since the same was done for me. Here is an example of a recent email that came across my inbox:
Fyi...Structures in general has a large call for Design/Analysis.
Here is a link and file for Structures Design/Analyst job requisitions. Pass this information on to nonBoeing field hires, too. If you want the Referral Bonus ($4000), make sure that you enter the person's contact information within the Boeing Jobs Referral link prior to the applicant actually submitting a resume to Boeing. Otherwise, the bonus won't happen (I think).
Howdy all
The "Structures" function is looking to hire more designers and stress analysts. If you know of any people who are interested in becoming a stress analyst (that is to say, contract employees that wish to become direct employees, current Boeing employees that work for other functions, or people outside the company), please let them know that several "requisitions" have opened. A list of the requisition numbers is below.
Any interested person can apply to these requisitions in the BESS system.
Edit: deleted non working link and added a shortcut to input field
here.
Boeing Employment
I don't know if the links will work, but there are some starting points. Also I'm not out to get rich off this by any means, I'm just trying to help people out. Also the "referral bonus" has many stipulations on it as the job has to be in great need and the participant is not in the system already.
Here are some job requisition numbers in the current email dated 6-29-05 to search on:
05-1016788
05-1046787
05-1016775
05-1016772
05-1016771
05-1016764
05-1016763
05-1016760
05-1016758
05-1016756
05-1016753
05-1016750
05-1016748
05-1015955
For those interested I will try to help out with regards to my field (Job Classification 6AJA)
And I will try to keep this updated with the new information I get.
For those with other questions (related to this post you smart asses) just send me a PM.