Recruiting top performers is even more important in business than in the Olympics, because in business they have many options, not just one national team.

Lots of short stints at many companies is not a good thing in the plastics industry but, most of the time, neither is spending decades at the same company.

Today’s labor market is the tightest in our nation’s history — you need to streamline your hiring process or job candidates will lose interest and consider other opportunities.

Westminster Tool’s Ray Coombs received the Mold Builder of the Year award for his mentorship and Wepco Plastics was recognized for promoting careers in manufacturing.

Don’t wait until there’s a job opening to recruit talent. A continuous recruitment process may sound futuristic, but it is, in fact, an emerging best practice.

The core of the hiring process has largely been stuck in idle for decades, while the technology surrounding it has advanced at lightning speed. We need radical change to keep pace with other countries that do not have the same employment headwinds...

To build the “pyramid of knowledge,” STEM is inadequate. You also need “art” and “language.”

According to a new study by Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute, as many as 2.1 million manufacturing jobs could be left unfilled by 2030. The study puts the price tag of that at around $1 trillion.

Once reserved for executive-level positions, sign-on bonuses are becoming almost standard in the plastics industry for highly sought-after candidates.