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Aug 20, 2025 hireCNC

You Have to Be Everywhere to Recruit CNC Machinists

Hiring CNC machinists today isn’t about posting a job and waiting. If it were that easy, every shop would be fully staffed. The reality is that simply throwing a job post on a board—or even announcing it on LinkedIn—rarely lands you the machinist you need. There isn’t one silver bullet.

What we’ve learned at hireCNC is simple: you have to be everywhere.

Why “Post and Pray” Doesn’t Work

The days of posting one job ad and watching qualified machinists roll in are over. Machinists aren’t hanging out in just one place online. They’re in Facebook groups. They’re on LinkedIn. They’re checking texts and emails. They’re following machining influencers. They’re buried in industry forums.

If your hiring strategy only hits one of those channels, you’re missing out on 80% of the market.

What Works: A Multi-Channel Approach

At hireCNC, recruiting machinists is our full-time job. We exhaust every angle:

  • The hireCNC Job Board – optimized for machinists only
  • LinkedIn Posts & InMails – connecting with both active and passive talent
  • Direct Emails & Texts – right into a machinist’s inbox or phone
  • Facebook Groups – including MACHINIST (the #1 community, owned and operated by hireCNC)
  • Industry Forums – where conversations about tooling, programming, and career moves happen
  • Machining Influencers – trusted voices with real reach
  • The Morning Machinist Newsletter – ads and job spotlights in front of a loyal machining subscriber base

It’s not one thing that works repeatedly—it’s all of them, layered together.

The Reality of Recruiting

Yes, your boss might want you to spend $100 on a single job post and expect two hires from it. But that’s not how it works. Recruiting skilled CNC machinists requires persistence, reach, and industry know-how.

That’s what we do every day at hireCNC. We live and breathe machining, and we’ve built the channels and community to connect shops with the right talent.

There is no easy button. But if you want to land the CNC talent your shop needs, you have to be everywhere—and that’s exactly where hireCNC is.

👉 Want to learn more? Contact hireCNC today and let’s talk about how we can help fill your machinist roles.

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