"As I know is true in your industry, the last ten years have proven to be much more difficult to recruit individuals reactively, and hiring managers want candidates yesterday rather than six months down the road. In my current role, I attend many university recruiting events to begin talking to future candidates even years before they graduate. I've put together great materials for them on what a future career looks like with our organization. Following events like this, I add candidates to our CRM and stay in contact with them regularly. These efforts have helped us fill our last three engineering positions in just a few short weeks."