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Hi Todd,
Welcome to the latest edition of the Great Ideas blog newsletter from Arrow Staffing.
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Jeff Thalmayer
Arrow Staffing Services
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Training Unskilled Workers
Many skilled labor jobs (skilled machinists, electricians, welders or mechanics) are going unfilled today due to the fact that there aren't enough workers who have the training needed to take on these well-paying and much-needed positions.
As a result, more and more companies throughout the country, as well as in the Inland Empire, are taking it upon themselves to train unskilled workers in the skills employers need.
Click here to read what the San Bernardino County Workforce Investment Board and the Manufacturers' Council of the Inland Empire have done to address this problem.
Recruitment Tips for 2012
It may be March, but there's plenty of time to fine-tune and improve this "recruiting thing" in 2012.
Click here for several great tips we found at the Forum of Private Business (FPB.org) on February 6.
U.S. Manufacturing Sees
Growth in 2012
Earlier this year we wrote about the potential job market for the Inland Empire in 2012. San Bernardino and Riverside counties are full of distribution centers and manufacturers, so we thought it would be interesting to see where manufacturing in the country as a whole is headed.
Bloomberg.com reported Dec. 6 that a survey by the Institute for Supply Management forecasted that "purchasing managers at factories anticipate sales will grow 5.5 percent next year [2012] and capital investment will increase 1.9 percent... Revenue and spending will increase at a slower pace among service providers, which account for about 90 percent of the economy."
When it comes to employment, hiring is projected to "increase 1.3 percent in 2012, compared with a 1.1 percent projected rise at non-manufacturing companies" (read, distribution centers among other "non-manufacturing" firms), the article continued. Meanwhile, sales "in the services industry will increase 3.1 percent next year and investment spending will rise 0.1 percent."
What's fueling this growth? Emerging markets, according to the article:
Such growth is "helping sustain demand for U.S.-produced goods. Deere & Co., the world's largest farm-equipment maker, on Nov. 23 reported fiscal fourth-quarter profit and forecast 2012 earnings that topped analysts' estimates."
Click here to see what this could mean for the Inland Empire.
Motivating Temporary Workers
If you bring in temporary workers--and almost every business does at some point--here are some tips to help you keep them motivated and productive. |
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