Jessica Zucker: Addressing the Industrial Talent Gap: Challenges and Solutions
Jessica Zucker, Senior Vice President of the Industrial Recruitment Division at Eastridge, discusses her role in staffing and Eastridge’s mission to enrich lives by providing work opportunities. She emphasizes unique ways to find and match the right candidates with clients to ensure timely production. Jessica's passion and expertise in industrial recruitment highlight her contributions to finding unique solutions to overcoming the industrial talent gap.
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Addressing the Industrial Talent Gap: Challenges and Solutions An interview with Jessica Zucker, Senior Vice President, Industrial Recruitment Division. 1
Addressing the Industrial Talent Gap: Challenges and Solutions Jessica Zucker, Senior Vice President of the Industrial Recruitment Division at Eastridge, discusses strategies for addressing the industrial skills gap. She outlines the proven tactics that Eastridge is deploying today to help close that gap helping manufacturing operations maximize their talent pool and gain a competitive advantage. 2
Table of Contents Customized Recruitment: Matching Skills to Industry Demands (1:15) Addressing the Manufacturing Workforce Skills Gap (2:41) Training Investments: Vital to Address Skilled Worker Shortage (2:56) Bridging the Skills Gap: Eastridge’s Proprietary GATE Program (5:47) Expanding the Candidate Pool: Harnessing Transferable Skills (3:58) The Importance of Transformative Staffing Solutions (2:00) Consultative Recruiting: The Key to Successful Staffing Solutions (2:20) Eastridge's Innovative Staffing Strategy: Talent, Technology, Partnership (4:05) Optimizing Workforce Flexibility: Balancing Full-time and Contingent Staff (3:23) Price vs. Value: Redefining Cost-Saving Partnerships (2:48) 3
Customized Recruitment: Matching Skills to Industry Demands "We can identify people with transferable skills that will lead to a greater longevity at a company." 4
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Addressing the Manufacturing Workforce Skills Gap "There is a real opportunity in focusing on getting more people at a younger age interested in manufacturing as a career path." 5
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Training Investments: Vital to Address Skilled Worker Shortage "We need to find ways to create continuous development that gives people an opportunity for career growth or transferable skills that they could grow into." 6
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Bridging the Skills Gap: Eastridge’s Proprietary GATE Program "With the GATE Program, we have a proven method that delivers more candidates that will do extremely well in a manufacturing environment." 7
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Expanding the Candidate Pool: Harnessing Transferable Skills “We have to be open to candidates who don’t always have the documented experience for a position by evaluating transferable skill sets that allow them to perform extremely well” 8 8
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The Importance of Transformative Staffing Solutions “Knowing that we’re impacting our customers, candidates, and communities in a positive way by expanding opportunities for growth makes me proud.” 9
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Consultative Recruiting: The Key to Successful Sta昀케ng Solutions "It’s not easy, but sometimes you have to tell a client that what they are doing will not get the results they need and then propose a solution based on proven experience." 10
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Eastridge's Innovative Staffing Strategy: Talent, Technology, Partnership "Armed with our testing and technologies, our client success managers act as a neutral party, advocating for the customer and identifying opportunities for improvement and additional resources." 11
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12 Optimizing Workforce Flexibility: Balancing Full-time and Contingent Staff "Leveraging staffing partner like Eastridge gives you flexibility, agility, and also offers the opportunity to truly assess the type of talent you want to bring into your organization" 12
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Price vs. Value: Redefining Cost-Saving Partnerships "Ultimately, we'll help you save money on your P&L by providing a positive impact in filling your positions, reducing turnover, improving quality, and decreasing time to fill." 13
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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.
Jessica Zucker Jessica Zucker, Senior Vice President of the Industrial Recruitment Division at Eastridge, highlights the power of workforce solutions in enriching lives, fulfilling positions, and driving success. With over 16 years of experience in the staffing industry, Jessica oversees Eastridge’s industrial recruitment division across the U.S.
