 The Right Career Path | |
As of Right now I'm going to school at a state college under Automated Manufacturing in the hopes of getting a job in a decent CNC shop. I've got one semester left after this summer and then I'm relocating 200 miles away in a place where I don't have many contacts with those in the manufacturing industry. There are however a handfull of small CNC shops which you have to dig to find. Right now, I'm working as a machinist in an all manual machine shop. The thing that I'm worried about is that I don't have the CNC experance that a lot of people are looking for, I mean I get a decent amount at school but not that much due to a limited budget.
So my main question is what are prospective employers looking for when they want to hire on a new operator/programmer? I've got a good 5 years work experance but only about a year in the Machining and manufacturing department.
Any advice would be greatly appreicated due to the fact that the area I want to go has a fairly narrow job market and at 21 I don't have that much experance in the field.
Carl  |