manufacturing jobs

  • Hire Older Workers on a Contract Basis

    • August 17, 2022
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business
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    Older worker at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City.

    Even during the Great Resignation, there are certain groups of workers who are having trouble finding work: People 50 and older. People who have been in the workplace for two to three decades. People who are a few years away from retirement, but still have plenty to offer. I can’t tell you the number of

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  • Don’t Overlook Older Workers In Your Hiring

    • August 11, 2021
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Leadership, Management
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    Hiring older workers is a way to shore up the labor shortage

    We’re in a hiring crunch in the United States, especially in the manufacturing industry. Yes, there are issues in the fast food and service-related industry, as people aren’t going back to work even as states end their unemployment support of $300 per week. Many people blame the low salaries fast-food workers are getting (which is

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  • The Importance of Cross-training and Succession Planning in the Days of COVID

    • May 5, 2021
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Leadership, Management
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    Two workers discussing a building that's being built. It's an illustration for cross-training workers to create positive redundancies in the factory.

    When companies are running short of employees and can’t find people to fill the vacancies they do have, they run into all kinds of problems. In the everyday world, we can see it in fast food restaurants that can’t find enough people to fill their openings. They’re closing their stores an extra day per week

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  • How Have the Challenges of Manufacturing Remained the Same Over the Years?

    • February 17, 2021
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Manufacturing
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    An old manufacturing facility, A.R. Williams Machinery, Co.

    Over the last several years — decades, in fact — certain aspects of manufacturing have stayed the same. I could say the attitudes about change and disruption, but that would be a bit mean. And also untrue. If you’ve paid attention to the automotive manufacturing industry, you already know the massive changes they’ve gone through

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  • Manufacturers, Focus on Recovery and Grooming the Workforce for 2021

    • December 9, 2020
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business, Management
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    A woman holding a mop or broom wearing safety gear and a medical face mask. Manufacturers should focus on grooming their workforce in 2021.

    I recently read an article in the Hartford (Connecticut) Business Journal (as one does, when you live in Central Texas) recommending that manufacturers should focus on recovery, technology, and grooming the workforce in 2021. While the numbers are specific to Connecticut, they represent a larger trend in the United States. Their big concern in January

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  • Making a Case for Technology Skill Schools

    • March 13, 2019
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Management, Manufacturing
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    Airmen and local nationals practice tungsten inert gas and oxyacetylene welding June 4 at Kadena Air Base, Japan. This is a type of trade skill school for members of the military.

    In Indiana, there’s a rather unusual vocational school called Driver Solutions, a truck driving school where students learn how to properly drive a tractor-trailer rig in three weeks. Students who qualify, and can pass the different drug and health tests, will not only get a job immediately after they graduate, their schooling is paid for.

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