Addressing Absenteeism – The Road to Happier Employees You’ve seen it before. Interviews go well and an offer is made. Your new employee shows up ready to jump in. They are throwing out ideas, absorbing onboarding material, and genuinely excited to be part of the team. But then something shifts. They start arriving late with less enthusiasm than before. Callouts [...]
Millennials have been shaking up the workplace since the mid 90s and are now the largest generation in the American labor force, making up 35%. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that millennials will represent 75% of the workforce by 2030. Yes, you read that correctly. And while millennials haven’t always been the poster child for manufacturing jobs, they [...]
Talent management is such an important concept, but sometimes businesses don’t focus the time, energy, and resources to ensure that the entire cycle is easy on both the business and the talent (aka employees). A holistic approach to hiring, retaining, and growing talent can help businesses grow and gain a leg up on their competition. But before you can develop [...]
The skills gap in manufacturing has affected hiring and retention across the industry for a few years now. Anyone who has looked to hire people into organizations can tell you that it’s been no small or easy feat to fill jobs the last few years. There is added pressure to find talent so that the retiring workforce of Boomers are [...]
Businesses who focus on adding diversity to their workforce by attracting and hiring a variety of different people find that their businesses succeed year after year. Hiring a diverse workforce includes hiring people with diverse ethnic, racial, and religious backgrounds (to name a few). Diverse teams that include many people with a wide array of backgrounds helps a business produce [...]
Retention Strategies to Keep Top Talent Post-COVID While hiring has ebbs and flows, the “Great Resignation” we are facing now just keeps continuing to make it extremely difficult for businesses to hire top talent. But there is hope! There is a way to minimize turnover and work on your retention strategy. Looking to fill open positions is necessary for businesses, [...]
Manufacturers are looking to hire not only a new wave of workers into the ranks of the industry, but are also looking for the right kind of skilled talent. And it is proving to be more difficult than before. There has been a clear employment gap for years now as the baby boomer generation is phasing out, but it’s now [...]
The first weeks at a new job are critical for both the employee and the employer. The employee has to transition to a new environment and team, and the employer has to make sure the new hire has the resources necessary to make their transition as smooth as possible. Onboarding is an opportunity to make an impactful first [...]
Keeping employees safe and healthy has always been a focus for businesses. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown a lot of employers that it’s time to step up their game and create a work environment that reduces the risk of transmission of COVID-19. The manufacturing industry isn’t an industry that can “work from home.” A jet, automobile, electronic device, or [...]
We all see now that times are changing, and changing quickly. COVID-19 has upended our lives (no matter where we are in the country or what industry we work in). Businesses still need to continue, and many manufacturing companies are considered essential, rightly so. Manufacturing is the backbone of our country and businesses remain open during this time to make [...]
