If you're running recruiting as a lean team, the qualified candidate shortage hits you harder than anyone. Every unqualified application is time you don't have.
Join hiring leaders from Hirsh Precision Products and Innovative Machine Specialists who both run one-person recruiting operations. They'll share how they manage the gap between what's expected of them and what the labor market actually allows.
Hear firsthand how they're adapting and overcoming in real time.
Each session stands on its own. Register for one, two, or all three. Every registration includes the full 2026 State of Industrial Hiring Report.
For lean hiring teams bearing the brunt of the qualified candidate shortage. Two one-person recruiting operations share how they manage the gap between what's expected and what the labor market allows.
How the best teams balance speed and quality. Where they're compressing timelines, where they stay deliberate, and how defining "qualified" upfront changes everything downstream.
What AI adoption actually looks like inside industrial hiring teams today. Where it's working, where teams have held back, and what it takes to close the trust gap.
We analyzed 1.2 million applications across 15,500 roles, surveyed 83 TA and HR professionals, and published the findings in the FactoryFix 2026 Industrial Hiring Benchmark Report.The data tells you what's happening across the industry. This session puts you in the room with two hiring leaders who are using that same data to make different decisions about where they source, how they prioritize roles, and what they've stopped doing.
Episode 1 is built for the people who are doing recruiting without a full team behind them. If you're a one-person or small TA/HR department at a manufacturing company or staffing firm, you'll hear from two people in the same seat.
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