One good thing about looking outside HI is that every potential employer understands why you want to leave. For you over 50 types out there there are much better places to be that appreciate you for your experience and don't require constant sacrifice.
Took this post by @ZfDXaCV-2yis as some good advice
I had a phone interview with an HR manager at a company a few years ago just after getting layed off from HON. It turned out, she also had worked at HON herself, and was very sympathetic to the situation there. Like you said, she didn't even have to ask about why I was layed off, or any other questions like "did you like it there?".
In the end, I didn't get a further interview or job offer from that company anyway, but after reading reviews of them on Glassdoor and Indeed, it was likely a blessing. I use the word "blessing" because what I read was, the privately-family-owned company was completely into Jeebus and nobody did well there unless you drank the kool-aid, Jim-Jones-style.
Yep, after many years at Honeywell, I just bailed recently as well. There is a fairly serious level of mass exodus from the company right now due to the horrible corporate culture and high levels of upper management incompetence. I just couldn't stand it anymore and had to leave for my own sanity. Maybe if they get rid of multiple layers of bad decision makers and actually start caring about the employees, then I might go back. I'm guessing that they will go the way of GE with the current "leaders" continuing to abuse the employees and the lack of caring about the brain drain that it is pushing.
This is correct. I just talked with a HR person about an open position and they said there are a lot of Honeywell resumes flooding in.