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Beyond Filling Roles: How Are You Closing the Skills Gap?

Why filling roles won’t solve the manufacturing skills shortage Manufacturers have long supplemented their workforces with temporary labor, but as a result of the current skills shortage, they are relying even more heavily on contract workers. While any company can find a staffing provider who can fill roles, it’s much more difficult to find a…

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Why a Mock Interview is your Best Defense in the Job Search Process

Practice makes perfect for job seekers Back in July we joined forces with the Freestore Foodbank, one of Ohio’s largest food banks, to launch LIFT the TriState. This free, 12-week program helps unemployed and underemployed adults obtain the hard and soft skills needed to find work in the warehouse and transportation industries. One of the…

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BelFlex Beliefs: Sharing our Success

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Making success contagious is part of our DNA In this blog series, we share how each of our core beliefs drives our business and influences the way we interact with our clients and temporary workers. They serve as the foundation for achieving our mission of providing flexible staffing solutions that help people, organizations and…

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BelFlex Beliefs: Client Relationships, Not Transactions, Drive Success

The power of a customer-first mentality In this blog series, we share how each of our core beliefs drives our business and influence the way we interact with our clients and temporary workers. They serve as the foundation for achieving our mission of providing flexible staffing solutions that help people, organizations and communities succeed. Don’t…

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Improving Retention in the Manufacturing Industry

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Seven Ways to Beat the Talent Shortage By 2025, the skills gap in the manufacturing industry is expected to grow to two million, according to Deloitte, and 82 percent of executives believe that it will affect their ability to meet their customers’ needs. For a shortage this significant, simply paying higher rates will only…

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How Technology is Changing Recruiting for the Manufacturing Industry

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The impact of social, mobile and video technologies on recruitment The manufacturing industry is in the midst of a significant transformation, as those in the field work to change the perception to match the current reality. To find and attract workers, recruiters are turning to technology for two main reasons. First, it allows them…

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Solving the Manufacturing Talent Shortage One Misconception at a Time

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Coming Together to Find Talent & Teach Skills Talent shortage. Skills gap. While these two phrases may be just buzzwords to some, they combine to pose a very significant threat to the future of the manufacturing industry. Consider the statistics: in just three short years, there will be roughly 3.5 million unfilled manufacturing jobs….

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Who is BelFlex: Meet John Murlin, Our Business Development Expert

Meet John Murlin [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](It’s no secret that a company’s greatest asset is its team, and here at BelFlex we are lucky to call some really great folks our employees. For this blog series, we sat down with a handful of our staff to hear what it’s like to work at BelFlex from their corners of…