Recruiting, Retention & Turnover
[Infographic] Planning for Your Peak Season
Low unemployment rates and high competition from other workplaces are two factors that make it pretty challenging to recruit warehouse workers. Follow these tips to recruit new workers for your distribution or fulfillment center.
Read More3 Ways To Ramp Up Your Workforce For Peak Season
The manufacturing skills gap and low unemployment is making it challenging for companies to meet their workforce needs when gearing up for peak season. Follow these three tips to help your recruiting efforts and find enough staff for your busy season.
Read MoreRecruit Warehouse Workers Like a Pro
Low unemployment rates and high competition from other workplaces are two factors that make it pretty challenging to recruit warehouse workers. Follow these tips to recruit new workers for your distribution or fulfillment center.
Read MoreThe Hardest Manufacturing Jobs to Fill & How to Find Skilled Workers
As the manufacturing skills gap widens, skilled production positions are increasingly difficult to fill. Take a look at these tips for hiring machinists, operators and technicians.
Read MoreOutsmart, Outstrip, Outsource: Solve Distribution and Fulfillment Recruiting Challenges
The geographic concentration of ecommerce warehouses leads to hiring difficulties, but you can solve three key distribution and fulfillment recruiting challenges by employing an outsmart, outstrip and outsource strategy.
Read MoreRecruiting: 5 Steps to Reduce Turnover in Manufacturing
Five steps you can implement at your facility to reduce turnover in manufacturing and ensure your company is one that people want to work for.
Read More5 Best Practices to Balance Your Manufacturing Procurement Strategy
While securing talent and technology at the lowest price are key, a winning manufacturing procurement strategy should be balanced between value and cost.
Read MoreThe Shrinking Manufacturing Skills Gap: Is it Real?
While there’s evidence that the manufacturing skills gap may be shrinking, it’s still causing headaches for many companies that operate in remote areas or tough labor markets. If you’re one of these companies that’s still feeling the negative effects of the skills gap, here are three things you can do to attract and retain skilled workers.
Read MoreTop Areas Talent Solution Providers Fall Short
A recent report found that companies believe goal alignment with their talent solution provider is good at first, but goes downhill as the relationship progresses. If you’re looking for a new staffing partner, here are three things they should offer to ensure ongoing performance success and alignment with your business objectives.
Read MoreFlexible Work Arrangements: Strategies for Retention
In a tight labor market, getting the best people for the job is a big enough challenge on its own. But how do you keep them invested in your company?
Flexible work arrangements, like alternative scheduling, have long been popular options, but they carry challenges too. Here are our tips for efficiently implementing flexible solutions.
Distribution Centers, Recruiting & Retention: 3 Tips for Keeping Quality Workers
With lower unemployment rates and greater technological sophistication in distribution centers, it can be a challenge to find and retain quality talent. Here are three tips to help you secure high-quality workers and keep them on board.
Read MorePreparing for Gen Z in the Workplace
Millennials entered the workplace with high expectations and the next cohort, Generation Z, is doing the same. As the oldest members join the workforce with a different professional outlook than their predecessors, companies will need to adapt if they want to attract this young talent.
Read More5 Decisions Your Talent Acquisition Partner Needs to Know
Working with a recruiter can broaden the pool of talent from which hiring managers source candidates. But whenever the search team expands, it’s important to verify that everybody’s on the same page. To make sure that you’re headed for success, share these five key decisions with your talent acquisition partner.
Read MoreBridging the Skills Gap: The New Age of Manufacturing
Businesses throughout the U.S. are struggling to fill positions in advanced manufacturing. What’s at the heart of the skills gap, and how can industry leaders bridge the divide to maximize efficiency?
Read MoreHow Advanced Manufacturing is Bridging the Interest Gap
Advanced manufacturing is growing increasingly complex, and careers in the sector are too often left unfilled for prolonged periods of time. Part of the reason for this skills gap is a lack of interest among young people.
To remain competitive, manufacturers are going to need to get tomorrow’s innovators interested. Here’s how industry leaders are getting kids on board.
Read More5 Commonly Overlooked Factors to Include in Your Recruitment Market Analysis
Searching for top talent in today’s competitive recruitment market takes more than an attractive job description and a strong sense of company culture. With unemployment rates near pre-recession numbers, targeting quality job seekers requires an in-depth understanding of your market – an area that many employers often overlook. So, what information do you need to be successful in your search?
Read MoreThe Multigenerational Workforce: How Communication Styles Impact Office Culture
Today’s workforce can include colleagues from as many as five different generations. How can you ensure that positive communication strategies forward cross-generational collaboration inside your organization? We have tips and advice.
Read More5 Key Practices to Expect from Your Recruiter
Outsourcing your hiring needs can be a great way to free up time and resources for your organization, but what makes for an exceptional third-party recruiter? Look for these key practices.
Read MoreTalent Acquisition in the Industrial Evolution
The manufacturing industry is undergoing major changes. Driven by an improved economic climate and advancements in engineering and technology systems, these developments are paving the way for a technical-centric industrial evolution – more often referred to as the fourth Industrial revolution.
Read More4 Things You Should Never Withhold From Your Recruiter
When you’re looking to source exceptional candidates for specialized positions, you could wind up spending too much time or too many resources that you just don’t have. You might also risk hiring a bad fit. When you already have a lot on your plate, contracting a third-party recruitment agency may be the way to go.
Read MoreShorten Your Time-to-Fill Rates by Cultivating a Referral Culture
Considering referred candidates for vacant positions can be highly beneficial for your organization. How do you best tap this pool of largely passive talent? Here are some tips and tools for developing an employee referral program at your organization.
Read MoreWhy Open Communication with Your Recruiter is Critical for Success
When it comes to working with a third-party recruiter, your delay or lack of communication can be detrimental to their success in finding you quality candidates. Here are some reasons why.
Read MoreRecruiting Trends: Are Your Wages Competitive?
If you’re struggling to attract or retain quality talent, the first factor you should consider is wage rate. Do you know if your offer is competitive in the current marketplace? If your analysis finds it’s not, there are a few changes you can make.
Read MoreRecruiting Trends: Introducing the Modern Candidate
Recruiters everywhere are becoming familiar with a new type of candidate in the talent pool. This candidate’s resume may look different than their counterparts. They might place value on aspects of the employment offer that may not have received a lot of attention in years past.
Read More5 Last-Minute Tips to Avoid an Understaffed Workforce During Your Ramp Up
Struggling to determine the number of employees you’ll need to get you through busy season? Or, do you know how many you need but just can’t find them? An understaffed or poorly planned workforce can have a significant impact on productivity and your bottom line. Overtime payroll can increase, employee motivation can decrease and quality may suffer.
Read MoreAre Your Turnover Rates Hurting Your Cost Containment Strategy?
High employee turnover rates can increase spend and lower productivity. To improve your cost containment strategy and create sustainable savings, start by using these three tactics to reduce turnover.
Read MoreWhy Should You Consider Direct Hire Support?
Hiring a new employee involves a degree of uncertainty and risk. Carrying out this process internally amplifies that risk even more because of the extensive time, money and resources you need to allocate to it. Learn how partnering with a direct hire firm can benefit your organization.
Read MoreThe Greatest Face-off in Staffing: Temp-to-Hire vs. Direct Hire
Gather ’round for the match that everyone’s been waiting for – the face-off between temp-to-hire and direct hire staffing solutions!
Read More5 Tactics for Recruiting Top Talent
It’s a job-seeker’s market; we’re all just recruiting talent in it. Or at least we’re trying to, but it isn’t easy. In order to help you quickly find top talent, Staff Management | SMX has identified five simple recruiting tactics to solve some not so simple problems.
Read MoreWhat is Turnover Costing You? [Infographic]
Turnover is inevitable but also costly. The cost of losing an employee can range from 16 percent of their salary for hourly employees to 213 percent for highly-trained employees. Check out our infographic to learn more.
Read MorePerils of the Talent Shortage – The Biggest Villain in Town! [Infographic]
Experiencing a talent shortage? You’re not alone. A third of employers say it’s why they can’t fill jobs. Check out our infographic for more details on the talent shortage and read how savvy employers are surviving the shortage.
Read MoreWho Do You Hire When There’s No One Left?
Over the next 13 years, 10,000 Baby Boomers are expected to retire each day. That’s over 50 million people, and the following generations, Gen X and Millennials, are taking their positions in your workforce. These younger generations have different expectations for their employer and company culture and companies that don’t adapt risk high turnover rates.
Read MoreDetermining the Most Effective Recruiting Channels
There are various recruiting channels to boost your techniques if you’re struggling to see a ROI from the more traditional methods. We’re breaking down these other approaches that are proven to bring results.
Read MoreEvaluating Your Employer Brand
Your employer brand reveals a lot and it’s important to maintain a strong and positive image, especially when you’re trying to attract top talent. Corporate Responsibility Magazine reports that 69 percent of people wouldn’t take a job with a company that had a bad reputation so here things to consider when evaluating your employer brand.
Read MoreDo You Have the Right Employment Offer?
Candidates value more than just a paycheck and can afford to shop around to find the best employment offer. Companies need to reevaluate their culture and offerings if they want to stay competitive and recruit top talent.
Read MoreSocial Media Recruiting [Infographic]
Not using social media to source candidates? Check out our Social Media Recruiting Infographic to learn why you’re missing out!
Read MoreHow a Staffing Provider Can Maximize Your Holiday Hiring
Fulfilling holiday hiring needs? Read how one company hired 16,000 associates in just nine weeks by partnering with Staff Management | SMX.
Read MoreLight Industrial Labor’s Shrinking Candidate Pool
If your offer isn’t competitive, you won’t attract talent. Read about all the factors creating a talent shortage in light industrial labor.
Read MoreLeave It to the Pros: Why Contingent Labor Is Better Managed Through an MSP
Increase efficiency, lower costs and broaden your talent pool by managing a highly specialized contingent workforce through an MSP.
Read MoreSeasonal Recruiting Best Practices [Infographic]
Learn all the stats, tips, tricks, hacks and best practices for seasonal and holiday recruiting.
Read MoreSocial Recruiting Video Helps Job Seekers Find Entry Level Work
Watch Staff Management | SMX’s Latest Social Recruiting Video – Modern Recruitment Strategies.
Read MoreKnow Your Millennials
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Read MoreSocial Media Recruiting
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Read MoreOrder Fulfillment for Your MSP Program – Basic Blocking and Tackling
A managed service provider (MSP) needs to have the ability to fill orders quickly and be responsive to fluctuating labor demand. With this in mind, there are other key considerations that should be thought about when discussing order fulfillment.
Read MoreSupplier Diversity – Your Competitive Advantage
A diverse supplier base can give you a competitive advantage by strengthening offers and helping customers compete in the global marketplace.
Read MoreHow to Improve the Candidate Experience
Ensuring a positive candidate experience for temporary positions means understanding how candidates feel about recruitment and selection.
Read More8 Tactics for Retaining Your Temporary Workforce During a Staffing Supplier Transition
One big concern during a supplier transition is temporary workforce continuity. Retain your workforce by following these 8 simple tactics.
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