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Executive Summary · 13 pages · 15 min read

Quality hires, quality output: Smart talent strategies for
industrial hiring

Prioritizing time to hire over quality of hire in industries where employee performance directly impacts safety, productivity, and efficiency can be a costly misstep.

63% of industrial professionals surveyed experienced decreased productivity because of a bad hire.

Finding and retaining talent continues to be a challenge across industrial sectors like automotive, distribution and manufacturing. The competition for entry-level, physically demanding industrial talent is high and increasing as technology advances and skills gaps grow.

In a review of our latest industrial research, we explore:

  • Top industrial hiring challenges
  • Why industrial organizations can’t afford bad hires
  • Proven, data-driven methods to improve quality of hire
Discover strategies that will help make better industrial hires more consistently to build a more reliable and productive workforce.
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