The Benefits of Using a Staffing Agency for Your Hiring Needs

Can working with a staffing agency to help with your hiring needs give you a leg up in the industry? Several best practices exist for writing job postings and communicating what’s most important for your company culture. Using a staffing agency can benefit industrial employers when finding talent. Here are the top five benefits. Access […]

How to Ensure Unbiased Hiring

Managers don’t want to admit that they bring biased thinking to hiring decisions. The real problem is that most of this bias is unconscious. Leaders don’t intentionally make these choices, but they can have long-lasting effects on the workplace culture. Unconscious bias is making decisions on factors that don’t appear discriminatory, but it may not […]

How to Protect Your Employees From Injury

Safety is a critical factor in so many companies and especially the shipyard. As people are working around dangerous equipment, water, fire, heights, and large materials, you need to ensure that every member of your staff is safe and sound on the job. But what safety recommendations work? Here are several ways you can protect […]

How to Motivate Your Workforce When Morale is Low

Not everyone can have a great day all the time. Bad days happen, the main concern is when they happen more than good days. Have you noticed that morale is low in your shipyard? How do you counter that? How do you motivate your workforce when they’re just not feeling it? You and your management […]

Should You Be Making Physical Ability Testing Part of Pre-Employment?

Work in a shipyard is difficult. It’s often a lot of heavy work in a hot and unforgiving environment. Sometimes the bulk of the work is done in tight spaces. You need to know the people you’re hiring are capable of performing under these conditions. But how can you know that ahead of their start date? Should […]

Are You Listening to Your Employees’ Concerns?

Do you listen to your employees when they bring up concerns in your shipyard? Some managers choose to dismiss their team when concerns are mentioned, but this can be a fatal mistake. To truly listen to your employees and take their concerns into consideration can be a powerful motivational tool. Here are a few things you can […]