Doesn’t it make sense to hire a recruiter who’s actually done the job?

30+ Years of Engineering Leadership and 30+ Years of Recruiting — Working for You.

Why GRN Columbus is Unique Among Recruiters

Let’s look at engineering.

Let’s look at engineering.

Let’s look at engineering.

5.6 million people in the U.S. hold engineering degrees — about 1.7% of the population.
Of those, about 2 million work as engineers in today’s workforce of 170 million.
Roughly 36% of engineers work in the manufacturing sector — narrowing the field to 720,000.
An estimated 5% of us rise to the level of engineering executive. That’s just 36,000 people nationwidewith real leadership experience in manufacturing engineering.

Now consider recruiting:

Let’s look at engineering.

Let’s look at engineering.

There are 264,153 recruiters in the U.S.
Only about 4% (≈10,566) have recruited for more than 11 years.
I’ve been recruiting engineers since 1989, trained at Ford Motor Company in 1990 in campus and professional recruiting (including NSBE and other technical fairs).
When you combine both worlds — proven engineering executive leadership in manufacturing and 35+ years recruiting engineers — the overlap is vanishingly rare.