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Navigating Talent Recruitment Needs in Manufacturing and Skilled Labor Industries: A Guide for HR Leaders

Blu Ivy Group

From the headlines: Over 700,000 skilled tradespeople are expected to retire by 2028. We’ve been reading the headlines and economic reports over the last few years and now is the time for organizations to refresh, relook, and invest in their employer brand strategy and recruitment marketing strategies.

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Navigating Life Pivots: Olympics Edition

Thrive Global

In our conversation together, we talked about when he needed to hang up his ice skates and retire at the young age of 28. Then, at the age of twenty-eight, he found himself too old to compete in his profession any longer and had to retire. . Apolo won 8 Olympic medals in speed skating during his historic career.

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How to Handle the Growing Labor Shortage in Manufacturing

Workforce Opportunity Services

million positions unfilled between 2018 and 2028—a potential economic impact of 2.5 Blue-collar jobs are currently the hardest to fill because more and more Americans are going to college and taking professional jobs while working-class baby boomers are retiring. trillion, according to a recent Deloitte study. Why the shortage?

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Organizational Silos and Growing Skills Gap: Most Common Challenges in Manufacturing

Quickbase

million positions unfilled by 2028. Additionally, a significant amount of the manufacturing workforce is nearing retirement age. Complacent Competency. Employers are facing a new challenge of a growing skills gap with not enough prospective employees having the skills necessary for the jobs.

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Talent Acquisition

Analytics in HR

Build As organizations struggle to source highly skilled and specialist talent, they might choose to build competencies in-house. In this strategy, organizations leverage learning and development programs to increase existing employees’ range of competencies and potentially offer training in adjacent areas. annually by 2028.

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Supercharge and Simplify Candidate Management with Technology

Manatal

Acquiring the right talent mix can provide a significant advantage for companies competing for customers and market share. This is because professionals with the skills employers need are not graduating in large enough numbers to fill the talent gap, or replace Boomers who are beginning to retire. billion by 2028.

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Manufacturing Hiring: New Challenges and Opportunities

ApplicantStack

million manufacturing positions will go unfilled between 2018 and 2028. You have to compete with many other industries. Boomers are retiring. Despite outdated stereotypes, today the manufacturing sector is booming. In 2018, the industry added 300,000 new jobs. A study by Deloitte predicted an estimated 2.4