Anyone in an HR or hiring role has faced a wide range of workforce planning issues. The balancing act of supply and demand, employee schedules, budgets, and more can be overwhelming. Whether you manage a small department or hire for a large organization, listen up!
Are you looking for a career within a booming industry? Are you a stand out sales professional with proven results? We have your career waiting!
Recent improvements in the economy have made skilled tradespeople increasingly difficult to recruit. This is something the state of North Dakota is all to aware of. While most of the country is still experiencing moderate unemployment rates, the state of North Dakota has had unemployment rates as low as 1-3% this year. Sounds like a good thing right? Not if you ask the employers and contractors seeking talent.
With annual budgets just around the corner, are you looking for ways to improve spending? Could saving your organization thousands of dollars with little time and resources be of benefit to you? Listen up, we have a solution!
Is your struggle to locate skilled industrial staff affecting your ability to complete projects? Have the burden of turnover, unemployment rates, and locating staff for off site work become a hardship on your ability to do business? Were you aware that industrial and skilled trades workers accounted for almost a quarter of the workplace deaths in 2010? One of the greatest ways to prevent workplace injuries and death is to hire experienced and trained personnel. Trillium, with over a quarter of a century of experience in the heavy industrial recruiting industry understands the work you do and the people you need to get the job done right!
With the recent devastation on the East coast as a result of Hurricane Sandy, many agricultural equipment manufacturing companies have seen an increased production need in what is normally a slower season. How could this late season spike in sales affect you?
You’ve landed the project and then the inevitable hits…your project’s location and specialized requirements are not a good fit for the area’s workforce pool. Obviously the best solution for any job site is to have local tradespeople on site. Unfortunately some areas do not have the talent available for specific trades.
That’s where we come in!
Did you know that every hour, the sun produces enough energy to meet the global energy needs for an entire year? Solar energy is a relatively low risk fuel source that is most often free of pollution and noise as well as being almost in endless supply. Sounds like a simple solution to our energy needs right? While the technology and fuel supply are readily available, a trained solar workforce is in high demand. It is essential that solar construction personnel maintain a high level of expertise and safe practices, which makes locating experienced talent a difficult task.
While hiring contingent or temporary staff has been a common practice among hiring managers for decades, the skill sets needed for many of these contingent positions has continued to escalate. While unemployment increased with the downturn of the economy in 2009, most organizations held on to many of their top performers leaving a shortage of skilled workers and professionals included in the unemployment figures. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has ranked contingent work in their top five industries of employment growth. There is a unique talent pool that has become a growing part of the contingent workforce, have you incorporated them in to your workforce yet?
Have you changed your procedures to accomodate the passing of MAP-21 this past July? Do you know what these changes mean to you? Here are a few of the highlights!