Case Study: How Eastridge Helped One Medtech Startup Optimize Its Workforce
Michelle Rios, Branch Manager at Eastridge San Diego, and Joe Bueno, Senior Recruiter at Eastridge Manufacturing and Distribution Division, explain how Eastridge supports startups by providing tailored workforce solutions, particularly for companies navigating the FDA approval process. With extensive experience in biotech and medtech, Eastridge helps clients accurately determine staffing needs, ensuring they meet production targets efficiently. Acting as a strategic partner, Eastridge guides startups through workforce planning, optimizing production, and reducing costs.
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Case Study: How Eastridge Helped One Medtech Startup Optimize Its Workforce An interview with Michelle Rios, Branch Manager at Eastridge San Diego, and Joe Bueno, Senior Recruiter at Eastridge Manufacturing and Distribution Division.
Case Study: How Eastridge Helped One Medtech Startup Optimize Its Workforce Michelle Rios, Branch Manager at Eastridge San Diego, and Joe Bueno, Senior Recruiter at Eastridge Manufacturing and Distribution Division, explain how Eastridge supports medtech startups by providing tailored workforce solutions, particularly for companies navigating the FDA approval process. With extensive experience in biotech and medtech, Eastridge helps clients accurately determine staffing needs, ensuring they meet production targets efficiently. Acting as a strategic partner, Eastridge guides startups through workforce planning, optimizing production, and reducing costs.
Table of Contents A Strategic Workforce Partnership for Startups Growth and Success (4:58) Navigating Workplace Culture and Cost Management Challenges (1:33) Efficient Staffing Solutions for Rapid Production Needs (1:19) Strategic Recruiting and Data Analysis for Industrial Companies (1:28) Bridging Skills Gap for Manufacturing Candidates Through the GATE Program (3:20) Achieving Production and Revenue Goals Success (1:02) Tracking MedTech KPIs to Achieve Optimal Staffing Solutions (0:30) MedTech Staffing Pitfalls: Fast Recruitment vs. Quality Outcomes (0:43) Setting Clear Expectations: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Team Dynamics (0:44) Building Sustainable Relationships Beyond Temporary Staffing Solutions (1:55) Building Trust and Creating Balance in Company Culture (1:26)
A Strategic Workforce Partnership for Startups Growth and Success “Eastridge is a strategic partner in helping companies set up operations when they start. We’ve worked with many startup companies that have their production lines successfully by analyzing and adding workforce to hit production levels effectively. ” 4
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Navigating Workplace Culture and Cost Management Challenges “We do our best to understand what the hiring manager is looking for. That way, we can appropriately deliver to expectations. We can work quickly and save everyone time.”
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Efficient Staffing Solutions for Rapid Production Needs “We’re a great solution for companies that have to get up to speed very quickly and add up headcount and then off board when production levels decrease.” 6
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Strategic Recruiting and Data Analysis for Industrial Companies Our team of recruiters are the absolute experts in the industry when it comes to understanding the data, talking with our clients, understanding their business, and then coming together to put that plan together.
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Bridging Skills Gap for Manufacturing Candidates Through the GATE Program “Our GATE program has helped us and our clients build a bridge between the gap between experienced and not experienced candidates.” 8 8
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Achieving Production and Revenue Goals Success “We help clients grow by providing the right people to meet their production levels and achieve their revenue goals.” 9
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Tracking MedTech KPIs to Achieve Optimal Staffing Solutions “In our quarterly reviews, we analyze turnover, fill time, and ratios to pinpoint issues and optimize future staffing, ensuring we’re prepared to meet client needs efficiently.” 10
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MedTech Staffing Pitfalls: Fast Recruitment vs. Quality Outcomes “While quality in staffing is subjective, speed is not. We balance swift recruitment with creating the right culture, ensuring objective insights and addressing pitfalls effectively.”
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Setting Clear Expectations: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Team Dynamics “Startups should first focus on building a strong team and identifying individual strengths and weaknesses. Effective communication of these insights should be prompt, rather than letting needs drag on over time.”
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Building Sustainable Relationships Beyond Temporary Staffing Solutions “I tell every candidate that the expectations are the same: I'm working with you, and the client's expectations are also aligned with yours. This means we all aim for a sustainable, growth-oriented relationship.”
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Building Trust and Creating Balance in Company Culture "I’m proud of the relationship we’ve built with our clients and the fact that they’ve allowed us to understand their business so that we can be a strategic partner." 14 14
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About Eastridge Established in 1972, Eastridge Workforce Solutions is an employee-owned provider of full-service talent acquisition and management solutions for companies globally. Eastridge provides a full range of solutions including professional / technical and industrial staffing. We also provide workforce management solutions such as employer of record, recruitment process outsourcing, as well as managed service provider programs. Our services are backed with Talient, a proprietary workforce technology that streamlines every step of managing your extended workforce. Eastridge proudly helps over 20,000 associates find jobs annually across the globe.
Michelle Rios Michelle Rios is the Branch Manager at Eastridge's Industrial Division in San Diego, with 17 years of staffing experience. She oversees a skilled recruiting team focused on light industrial roles, particularly in the biotech and med tech sectors.
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Joe Bueno Joe Bueno, Senior Recruiter at Eastridge's Manufacturing and Distribution Division, has been with Eastridge for nine years. He previously developed an industrial department in the staffing industry and has corporate experience in high-paced, people-driven environments. Joe's extensive recruitment and business development background makes him a key asset to the team.
