How Good Job Descriptions Help Manufacturers Attract Skilled Employees

When seeking out a new job, potential employees want to understand what will be expected of them and how they will be evaluated if brought onboard; on the other hand, employers ...

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The Impact of Manufacturing Day—and How to Get Involved

Dark, dirty, dangerous. Unfortunately, this outdated perception of manufacturing persists to this day, and it can keep away new talent. By 2025, nearly 25 percent of the United ...

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Tax Reform Has Manufacturers Investing in Their Future

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, most manufacturers understand the importance of investing in their business. But, investing means spending money, something many ...

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Promoting Training to Revitalize California Manufacturing Jobs

The California manufacturing sector is showing signs for a huge revival—a fourth industrial revolution, if you will. Rapid technological changes are creating a fresh dynamic that ...

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Community Colleges: Training the Next Generation of Manufacturers

Training skilled workers is critical to strengthening the U.S. manufacturing sector, especially at a time when about 2 million manufacturing jobs are projected to remain unfilled, ...

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How to Overcome Common HR Challenges in Manufacturing

The evolution from manual methods to advanced techniques (i.e. the creation of goods and services) has become a complex process, giving rise to a host of HR challenges in ...

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8 Manufacturing Workforce Development Tips to Help Your Business Grow

Over the past several decades, major shifts in the manufacturing environment have occurred that have proven beneficial for domestic manufacturers. Industry statistics show that ...

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How to Increase Employee Productivity on the Shop Floor

Low productivity can be an insidious problem. For line workers, performing repetitive tasks day-to-day, everyday, year after year, can sometimes have a lulling effect. After all, ...

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Helping Veterans Find a New Career in Manufacturing

As our veterans return home and are discharged from their military service, many are thinking “Now what do I do? I am leaving a structure that provided me a purpose, a goal, and ...

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How to Improve Your Team Leadership and Supervisory Skills

There are many challenges that your manufacturing organization faces on a day to day basis. Those challenges may range from government regulation compliance to ensuring that your ...

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Integrate Your Workforce Using Community College Graduates

Hiring, developing and retaining your workforce can be a challenging task with the increasing demand for a more technological mindset in the workplace.

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