For workers at the beginning of a career in the skilled trades, getting your foot in the door can be daunting, and partnering with a staffing agency can provide advantages to your process that you won’t have on your own. There are a lot of benefits a staffing agency can provide workers getting started in a new industry.
“Only about half of the staffing and recruiting agencies offer legitimate benefits to their workers. At LEAD, we are proud to offer referral bonuses and eligibility for health benefits to purchase, including medical, dental, vision, term life, and short-term disability,” says Jason Stephens, the Managing Partner at LEAD Tampa Bay.
Do you struggle to find the right candidate for hard-to-fill skilled trade positions such as electricians, millwright mechanics with welding experience, commissioning technicians, or conveyor installers?
More than 19 million US workers quit their jobs between April and September 2021. In a McKinsey & Company survey, 36 percent who had quit in the past six months did so without having a new job in hand. The question that remains is why are they leaving?
When you sign up to work with LEAD Pacific Northwest, you will be joining a staffing agency that is constantly receiving requests to fill positions for skilled trade workers, and your labor will be in high demand.
The U.S. construction industry is set to grow by 3% this year, according to a report by GlobalData, a data analytics and consulting company, and staffing agencies like LEAD Dallas, Ft. Worth have been gearing up to meet the rising demand in the commercial construction business.
One of the major economic legacies of the pandemic era is the staffing shortages faced by employers across the country; qualified, skilled trade workers are still hard to come by, but LEAD Pacific Northwest has the mechanisms for bringing the perfect candidates onboard.
A recent Glassdoor survey found that 70% of job seekers use social media to find their next gig and hiring companies use Twitter, Facebook and other social sites to announce jobs to their followers. “Social media has become a large part of our personal and professional lives, especially since the coronavirus pandemic forced social distancing,” says Dick McLaughlin, managing partner of LEAD New England, a skilled trade staffing company.
A national movement is underway and gaining traction to change the minds of Americans when considering their career path. In 2019, to combat the negative perception of blue-collar skilled-trades, Lowe’s, the American retail company specializing in home improvement, launched Generation T. “The movement’s main objective is to rebuild the trades in America.
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