recruiting

  • How Do You Replenish a Decimated Workforce?

    • July 22, 2020
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business, Management
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    Photo of an empty factory. Companies may have a hard time replenishing a decimated workforce.

    With unemployment up and the economy facing some serious difficulties, many companies have furloughed or laid off their workforce, if only to protect their assets and hope for a recovery when they can bring those associates back. In the meantime, one of two things has happened: 1) the furloughed staff have been receiving unemployment for

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  • Developing People Within the Organization to Handle Higher-Qualified Work

    • April 10, 2019
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Leadership, Management
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    Developing people within your organization makes it easier to find the talent you need to run your equipment and use your technology.

    When you’re trying to recruit highly-skilled employees for a highly-skilled job, you have to look everywhere you can. However, those candidates are not always available for you to just pick one out of a pile of résumés, ready to start work at a moment’s notice. In a lot of cases, you can focus on developing

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  • Don’t Poach, Approach: Recruit Talent from Your Vendor Partners

    • April 3, 2019
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Management
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    A young man on a job interview with a mature woman. It's the hiring managers who should focus on talent recruiting, not HR.

    As the American manufacturing industry faces a continued shortage of skilled workers, I remember how we used to find recruit talent for Robroy and its different divisions and subsidiaries: We would recruit employees from our vendor partners and suppliers. By recruiting the talent from our partners, the ones who supplied us with the services or

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  • Managers, not HR, Should Spend Time Doing Talent Recruiting

    • November 28, 2018
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business, Management
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    A young man on a job interview with a mature woman. It's the hiring managers who should focus on talent recruiting, not HR.

    When it comes to finding new talent, the onus shouldn’t be on Human Resources to do all the work. HR can find potential talent by ticking off all the boxes, but it’s ultimately the manager who should be responsible for testing the individual skill sets and determining whether they would be a cultural and talent

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  • Hiring Good People Sometimes Means Ignoring HR

    • January 11, 2017
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Management
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    Hiring good people sometimes means ignoring the HR requirements

    Hiring good people is becoming more and more of an issue for companies as the unemployment rate drops. And it’s becoming more difficult as recruiting services and hiring software have entered into the mix, because the résumés being submitted can be fairly unreliable. Recruiters have a tendency to coach candidates on how to puff up

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