The Sucking Black Hole of the AECOM Careers website

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    landplanner
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    Has anyone out there ever actually received a credible response from AECOM regarding any of the landscape architecture/urban design/environmental planning job listings they have ? Upon first viewing, this firm, the biggest of the big international superstar outfits, has a multitude of jobs available. Less here in the States and far more internationally. My own personal and professional experience so far has been this.

    IMHO, I have strong and attractive credentials, project accomplishments and so on and so forth….

    And so far, as one other Land8Lounge contributor has noted before “crickets” as to the silence I have received after submitting on several AECOM positions. The only useful input I have received so far was, after some data mining, finding an actual email address of an actual AECOM human resources person. I wrote her about this quandry and her response (and she just dealt with Asia alone) was something like “we receive hundreds of resumes a day….”.

    If you have had an experience that has led anywhere with this colossal firm, has is led anywhere other than an automated reply and then nothing after  ?

    Yeah, sure thing, I’m currently in China and want to return to the States….. foolhardly proposition, right ?

    Supportive or scathing comments encouraged and expected by the usual suspects found here.

     

     

    #158845
    nca
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    It seems they rely heavily on personal recommendations. I applied via the website back in 2009 to no avail.

    #158844
    Jason T. Radice
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    Apparently, even some within AECOM don’t like the website. I’ve seen and applied to a few positions directly to a person in that specific office hiring, without going through the AECOM stuff at all. They sometimes post on ASLA like that. I can only imagine the HR at that place, being the tens of thousands that work there, and the world wide reach of their business. They probably get thousands of resumes a day. Any large or prominent firm is is a similar position.

    #158843
    mauiBob
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    You need to send them a singing telegram to get noticed. Yes, really.

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