Inside the playbook one of the nation’s leading staffing firms uses to balance speed, quality, and AI in today’s labor market.
In this session, leaders from ExpressPros Baton Rouge–a franchise owner and skilled trades specialist–share how they’re using AI and market data to improve placements while strengthening client relationships, without cutting corners.
What one staffing team has learned about putting AI to work in their hiring
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 a staffing team adopts AI without losing the human side. Mark Herbst and Cameron Hidalgo from Express Baton Rouge walk through the strategy and the day-to-day. Plus a first look at a new feature built specifically for staffing teams.
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 2 is for the people who measure their week in time-to-submit, fill rate, and client retention. If you run a staffing firm or RPO team placing industrial and skilled-trades talent, this hour was built for you.
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