4 Tips to Hire a Manufacturing Professional
The market for manufacturing professionals is waning, but you can still recruit quality employees for your business by changing your strategy.
Setting and forgetting a job application online to attract candidates doesn’t work the way it used to. There is a flooded job market, and yet manufacturing professionals are becoming sparser.
With NRTC Automation’s Engineering Services, you can get quality technicians and other employees for your business. We also offer a few tips on how to recruit applicants on your own.
Learn more about hiring manufacturing professionals below!
Hiring Manufacturing Professionals for Your Business
Hiring employees in manufacturing is becoming more difficult.
Not only are there fewer people looking for jobs in manufacturing, particularly people with robotics degrees, but there are even fewer people who are qualified for the jobs they are applying for.
This can be problematic for companies looking to hire manufacturing professionals to run and lead their businesses. A lack of workers means manufacturing businesses can’t grow to the extent that they may be able to otherwise.
NRTC Automation’s Robotic Engineering Services
A shortage of manufacturing workers doesn’t mean you have to suffer, though. You can find companies, like NRTC Automation’s Robotic Engineering Services, to recruit employees for you. NRTC uses specialized databases and applications to find qualified and dependable technicians and other professionals for your business.
If you want to recruit manufacturing professionals yourself, then consider our tips for recruiting and what to look for in applicants below.
How to Recruit Manufacturing Professionals
Use these tips to hire manufacturing professionals and make it easier to recruit the qualified people you need for your company.
Build your pipeline by offering training to young workers. Hiring younger people, and giving them industry training, is worth the frontload investment. By training new graduates and other young people, you can keep employees long-term that will be able to train new employees hired after them.
Use social media to recruit professionals. While it may not seem like it at first glance, social media is an excellent way to attract potential employees. Most people are on social media and use their phones daily to scroll and find new content. You can post your hiring advertisement on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, and any other platform you use. With social media, you can broaden your audience and engage the right people for your company.
Expand your pool. Until recently, the majority of people working in manufacturing have been men. However, in recent years, women have been encouraged to apply themselves to STEM jobs like industrial automation and manufacturing. Seek out women in the field, as well as other minorities such as veterans and people of color, to expand your hiring pool and get qualified professionals into your company.
Share your employees’ stories. To make your company more appealing to applicants, try crafting a story out of your employees’ experiences. You can show your company culture while displaying the day-to-day activities of an employee in your business. Storytelling humanizes the job application and makes it more enticing to your audience.
The hiring process requires more creativity now more than ever due to increasing competition between companies. The tips above will allow your company to eclipse other applications and get the qualified professionals you need to succeed.
What to Look for When Hiring a Manufacturing Professional
When looking through applications and interviewing, you should consider what qualities your ideal candidate should have.
Along with technical skills, we suggest that your candidate has all these attributes to benefit your company:
Timeliness: Being punctual is necessary in manufacturing. The ideal candidate will be committed to timeliness to ensure that your production line is working as it should at all times.
Attention to detail: Working on products and with machines requires attention to detail to complete the task properly. Overlooking tasks or forgetting a necessary step in the process is not only dangerous, but it compromises the quality of your product. That’s why your candidate should be detail-oriented.
A penchant for safety: As mentioned above, overlooking tasks can be dangerous. Your manufacturing team relies on each individual to practice safety precautions so the work can be done properly and without accidents. When interviewing your candidate, see how they feel about safety standards and ask how they have upheld them in the past.
Experience: Look for candidates who not only have experience in the job you are interviewing for, but try to get applicants who have broader experience in similar fields. You can utilize a well-rounded employee in more than one area of your business.
Soft skills: Last but not least, you should always look for candidates who have soft skills on top of the other attributes we mentioned. Soft skills are the key to communication between teams, good leadership, and better customer relations. Observe how your candidate interacts with you during the interview and ask several situational questions to see how they may react.
While this is by no means an exhaustive list of traits your candidate should have, these are the major qualities your candidate should have to bring the most value to your company.
GET HELP WITH HIRING WITH NRTC AUTOMATION.
NRTC Automation can help you find skillful and experienced technicians for your manufacturing company with our Robotic Engineering Services. We’ll do the recruiting work for you and find the best candidate to fit your needs.
We also offer automation services like industrial robot refurbishing, robotic training, and service parts manufacturing so you can build your manufacturing company.
Contact NRTC Automation today to learn more about how we can transform your business.
