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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management 6th Edition by Raymond Noe, John Hollenbeck, Barry Gerhart,Patrick Wright
Edition 6ISBN: 978-0077718367Fundamentals of Human Resource Management 6th Edition by Raymond Noe, John Hollenbeck, Barry Gerhart,Patrick Wright
Edition 6ISBN: 978-0077718367 Exercise 24
Sources of Talent for Advanced Technology Services
In providing its clients with hard-to-find skills, Advanced Technology Services (ATS) helps them with a recruiting problem -and also has to tackle the problem itself. Based in Peoria, Illinois, ATS provides machinery repair and maintenance services to clients' factories. Clients can focus on designing, making, and selling products, while ATS keeps the factories humming.
This service is valuable because skilled and reliable machinists and maintenance technicians have become hard to find. The offshoring trend of the past few decades scared many young people away from manufacturing careers, and people with math and technical skills were urged to pursue college degrees instead of vocational training. Many of the skilled workers who remain are nearing retirement. Manufacturers complain they cannot find qualified workers and lack the resources to train employees who might learn the necessary skills.
Instead, addressing that need for labor is the main focus of ATS. The company fills its demand for labor by recruiting from several sources. First, the company is committed to hiring military veterans. The company finds many who have done mechanical and maintenance work and who have good self-discipline. These qualities enable them to learn the skills for maintaining particular kinds of civilian machinery.
ATS also watches for factory closings. When these operations shut down, ATS recruiters move in with an opportunity to apply. This effort can provide experienced workers.
Finally, ATS collaborates with high schools and community colleges where it operates. It identifies needed skills, such as the ability to use computer controls, and it encourages the schools to teach these skills. When it finds candidates with technical interests and factory experience but without the specific skills needed, it brings them aboard at an entry level and connects them to training at area schools.
This combination of recruiting methods is positioning ATS for growth at a time when manufacturers are moving operations back to the United States.
How does ATS's approach to recruitment make it valuable to its clients
In providing its clients with hard-to-find skills, Advanced Technology Services (ATS) helps them with a recruiting problem -and also has to tackle the problem itself. Based in Peoria, Illinois, ATS provides machinery repair and maintenance services to clients' factories. Clients can focus on designing, making, and selling products, while ATS keeps the factories humming.
This service is valuable because skilled and reliable machinists and maintenance technicians have become hard to find. The offshoring trend of the past few decades scared many young people away from manufacturing careers, and people with math and technical skills were urged to pursue college degrees instead of vocational training. Many of the skilled workers who remain are nearing retirement. Manufacturers complain they cannot find qualified workers and lack the resources to train employees who might learn the necessary skills.
Instead, addressing that need for labor is the main focus of ATS. The company fills its demand for labor by recruiting from several sources. First, the company is committed to hiring military veterans. The company finds many who have done mechanical and maintenance work and who have good self-discipline. These qualities enable them to learn the skills for maintaining particular kinds of civilian machinery.
ATS also watches for factory closings. When these operations shut down, ATS recruiters move in with an opportunity to apply. This effort can provide experienced workers.
Finally, ATS collaborates with high schools and community colleges where it operates. It identifies needed skills, such as the ability to use computer controls, and it encourages the schools to teach these skills. When it finds candidates with technical interests and factory experience but without the specific skills needed, it brings them aboard at an entry level and connects them to training at area schools.
This combination of recruiting methods is positioning ATS for growth at a time when manufacturers are moving operations back to the United States.
How does ATS's approach to recruitment make it valuable to its clients
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