Manufacturing RPO & talent acquisition
How to manufacture excellence
A crisis of talent
Most manufacturers need more skilled talent, and they need it now. From electronics and chemicals to automotive, energy and more, your organization’s talent pain points are unique to its position in the market and in the world.
This diversity calls for custom manufacturing recruiting strategies. With Cielo, you’ll get talent solutions tailored specifically to your industry’s challenges and goals. Earning you the skilled talent you need.
Who we serve
People will drive your business forward, and we know how to find them with manufacturing recruiting strategies. We serve all parts of the manufacturing industry, including:
- Electronics: For companies that manufacture, design, development and assemble electronic equipment, including manufacturers of photographic and optical equipment.
- Chemicals: For those who transform organic and inorganic raw materials by a chemical process.
- Industrial & building products: Including companies involved in building components, home improvement products and equipment, civil engineering construction, commercial and residential construction, glass and clay production, industrial machinery and equipment and wire and cable production.
- Transportation & automotive manufacturing: For companies that make commercial vehicles, including automobiles, aircrafts, boats, submarines, and trains. Includes vehicle parts plus aerospace and defense manufacturers.
- Energy & Engineering: We help hire those in the production and sales of energy, fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution, oil and gas exploration, and water treatment.
- Semiconductors: Includes organizations that design and/or manufacture computer chips and related products.
- Consumer products manufacturing: Including plastics, packages, containers, pulp, paper, furniture, tires, rubber, hand tools, power tools and lawn-care tools.
- Advanced materials: For companies that development and/or produce high-strength, durable materials engineered for specific high-performance applications.
Our solutions. Your advantage.
Manufacturing solutions
Talent Acquisition
Finding the right talent for the job is more important than ever – and more competitive. At Cielo, we give you the people, processes and technology to get ahead.
- Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) offers a dedicated team to fill roles faster, attract top talent, and boost efficiency.
- TA Optimizers™ augments your strategy where and when you need it – services for every stage, including planning, sourcing, interviewing, offer, and post-offer.
- Contingent Workforce provides expertise and market insights to bring the right people to work whether gig, temporary or retained.
Consulting
Turn talent into your bottom-line advantage. Our consultants put you on the front edge of talent with bold strategies for a noisy world. Get results, not reports.
- TA Strategy & Transformation implements and integrates processes with technology for impact.
- HR Technology resolves issues to improve HR technology vendor selection.
- Employer Branding & Talent Marketing attracts the right candidates and engages employees.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion supports building a diverse workforce and inclusive culture.
Search
Find the visionary leaders you need. Cielo’s search team turns the opaque, costly and time-consuming business of traditional search into a transparent, real-time, cost-efficient service.
- Executive Search identifies and secures the individual with the exact skills and experience needed.
- Executive Search Outsourcing provides a dedicated team of experts to find leaders faster.
- Project Search secures the right talent under tight timelines or temporary surges in hiring.
- Research & Insight delivers actionable reports to better inform your hiring decisions.
- Physician Search finds doctors and healthcare professionals with those difficult-to-source skills.
Digital Accelerators
Don’t just automate talent acquisition, improve. Our Digital Accelerators suite combines AI with human intelligence to power better outcomes and experiences for all.
- Cielo Source & Engage prioritizes the best talent from major platforms while creating better experiences.
- CLO.ai turns time-consuming TA tasks into better results, faster.
- Cielo Insights generates actionable insights to improve your recruitment and retention performance.
Cases in point
At the heart of every solution: expertise
Yvonne Baumgartner-Muckly
Senior Vice President – Strategic Accounts, Cielo
Yvonne Baumgartner-Muckly
Senior Vice President – Strategic Accounts, Cielo
Eric Dunlap
Senior Vice President – Client Services, Manufacturing & Technology, Cielo
Eric Dunlap
Senior Vice President – Client Services, Manufacturing & Technology, Cielo
We’re true talent acquisition partners
Group Strategic HR Director Construction companyIt’s important for us that our partners understand our industry, appreciate the nuances of our culture and are flexible, responsive and accessible.
Director of Global HR Service Delivery Fortune 500 ManufacturerAllowed us to hire the best people, which in turn allows us to meet our business objectives.
Thinking differently
Talent Acquisition LeaderWe wanted a partner that could help us think differently – beyond just reducing cost and time to hire. Someone who could give us the competitive edge that will bring us the quality candidates we need in our niche markets. Cielo has done just that and we now see them as an extension of our business.
It’s our business to know yours
We know the pain points – and the solutions – of every industry we serve, including:
Manufacturing
Revive apprenticeship and eliminate your skills shortage
Life sciences
Find the right specialists by accelerating digital and analytics hiring
Healthcare
Address staffing shortages with financially sustainable tactics
Technology & media
Create new talent, don’t compete for it
Business services
Cultivate a culture of collaboration and turn scarce skills into your new baseline
Retail & consumer
Champion advanced skills by becoming a world-class employer brand
We're frequently asked...
The manufacturing industry includes companies in the following areas:
- Electronics
- Chemicals
- Industrial & building products
- Transportation & automotive manufacturing
- Energy & engineering
- Semiconductors
- Consumer products manufacturing
- Advanced materials
Each of those face unique challenges, as well as a common one: a lack of skilled talent. With Cielo’s talent acquisition experts – who are experienced in manufacturing, RPO, and other recruiting strategies – manufacturing organizations will find the talent needed to close the skills gap and move their business forward.
We customize our talent acquisition solutions to fit your needs. Our strength is versatility. If you’re centralizing your talent acquisition and need to bring consistency to your global recruiting function, we accelerate your journey toward a centralized TA model. If you need to revitalize your talent efforts in a specific country or business area, we’re here to make that possible.
We pride ourselves on our culture of collaboration: Whether RPO, TA Optimizers™ or another one of our Talent Acquisition solutions, we provide the assistance you need to optimize your manufacturing recruitment strategies. Our approach is endlessly flexible because we know that unique talent problems require custom-made solutions.
A manufacturing RPO solution improves a number of hiring metrics, including:
- Reduced time to fill
- Better requisition aging
- Fewer candidate dropouts
- Lower attrition
But RPO delivers more than just better recruitment. Manufacturers that invest in a RPO see better business results overall. Because RPO helps manufacturing companies find the talent needed for a brighter tomorrow.
Best-in-class RPO providers, like Cielo, work collaboratively with clients to address challenges like employee turnover, niche hiring limitations, and global talent strategy.
The energy and engineering industry faces vast change as consumers push for cleaner energy sources. The industry needs strong, skilled talent to facilitate this transition, but they’re hurting for workers, trained engineers and geologists, in particular. The industry must implement innovative measures to confront competition, combat an aging workforce, and foster new skills amid digitalization and sustainability measures.
Chemical industry employers must rely on a multi-pronged strategy to create a strong talent pipeline. To develop talent pools and engage job seekers in the market, employers need to incorporate both short- and long-term efforts such as:
- Educational partnerships with universities and technical schools
- Ongoing learning and development initiatives
- Diversity, equity and inclusion policies that attract a wider range of talent
- Clear career pathways that show talent what’s possible
- Industry branding that shows chemical companies’ positive impact
Technology is deeply ingrained in talent acquisition for manufacturing and engineering. At Cielo, we use technology, people and process to make recruiting faster, easier and more effective. Whether we’re delivering engineering and manufacturing companies an enterprise RPO solution or our modular RPO offering (called TA Optimizers™), technology plays a pivotal role.
According to the latest studies and surveys, trending recruiting strategies in manufacturing stem from three core themes:
- Skills: Many manufacturers say the scarcity and cost of talent with the right skill sets are the greatest risks to their business growth, according to a survey from EY. With that in mind, it follows that 35% of advanced manufacturing companies have plans to increase investment in talent, including workforce well-being and skills development.
- Reentry: As manufacturers struggle for talent, some are finding a new talent pool in job seekers who previously worked in the industry, found an RSM study. As cost-of-living continues to rise, some employees are looking to return to the manufacturing workforce, which comes with higher wages.
- Flexibility: Manufacturers are intent on providing as much flexibility as possible in an industry that relies on in-person talent. According to a study from EY, “27% of advanced manufacturing CEOs say one of their top strategic priorities over the next six months is to adopt new working models and talent strategies to attract and retain employees.” Another study from the National Association of Manufacturers says that “nearly 50% of manufacturing employees cite flexibility as a reason they stay with their employer, with 63.5% reporting that they would look for more flexibility in their next role if they were to leave their current company.”
At Cielo, we pride ourselves on being experts in the industries we serve. We’re experts in manufacturing RPO and manufacturing recruiting strategies. That means we do our research. And that research carries through into the solutions we craft.