Key Takeaways

• Steel and manufacturing employers face a worker shortfall running into the millions over the next decade, and the roles hardest to fill are the exact production, maintenance, and engineering positions a plant cannot run without – but one stage of the hiring and onboarding process quietly drives most of the loss, and it is the cheapest to fix.
• The skills that make a strong steel hire today are not the same as a decade ago, and the most valuable new capability a candidate can bring is one many employers still screen out instead of screening for.
• A short set of practices separates the companies that keep their best people from the ones that train workers only to lose them, and the move with the strongest documented effect on retention is the one most often treated as optional.

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