Episode 2 · May 14
The State of Industrial Hiring: Live

Hiring Faster Without Lowering the Bar

For staffing firms and RPOs filling industrial roles, speed decides who wins the placement. The bar decides who keeps the client. Doing both at once is the hardest and most important skill your team has.

Join leaders from Express Employment Professionals and Advanced RPO who run this math every week. They'll share how they compress time-to-submit, hold quality standards under client pressure, and protect the stages of their process where slowing down actually wins them more placements.

12:00 PM CT - 30 minutes
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Thursday, May 14

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Episode 2 Panelists

How two different staffing businesses hire fast without sacrificing quality.

Hear how a staffing franchise co-owner and an RPO recruitment strategist each navigate the speed-versus-quality pressure from different sides of the industry.

Maria Abeal
Senior Global TA Partner
Grupo Tigre
Mark Herbst
Co-Owner - Baton Rouge, LA
Express Employment Professionals
Mark co-owns the Baton Rouge franchise of Express Employment Professionals, bringing labor market data directly into client conversations to set realistic expectations before a role is ever posted. Recent fills include an industrial sewer and a CAD designer, both in under two weeks.
Michelle Lucero
Recruitment Strategist
Advanced RPO
Michelle has spent a decade at Advanced RPO designing the front end of recruitment delivery for industrial and manufacturing clients. Her team moves sourced candidates to a scheduled conversation in 24 to 48 hours. built on upstream work with hiring managers to define what "qualified" actually means.
Virginia Aylesworth
Talent Acquisition Manager
Senior Global TA Partner
Halle Miroglatta
Head of Customer Onboarding · Facilitator
FactoryFix
Halle leads customer onboarding at FactoryFix, working with staffing firms and industrial hiring teams every day to turn recruiting challenges into repeatable results.
3-Part Webinar Series

Three episodes. One shared challenge.

Each session stands on its own. Register for one, two, or all three. Every registration includes the full 2026 State of Industrial Hiring Report.

EPISODE 1
AIRED APRIL 16
Thursday, April 16 · 12:00 PM CT
Why Qualified Candidates Are Harder to Find Than Ever (And How to Adapt)

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.

Maria Abeal
Senior Global TA Partner
Grupo Tigre
UP NEXT
Thursday, May 14 · 12:00 PM CT
Hiring Faster Without Lowering the Bar

How the best teams balance speed and quality. Where they're compressing timelines, where they stay deliberate, and how defining "qualified" upfront changes everything downstream.

EPISODE 3
Wednesday, June 11 · 12:00 PM CT
Putting AI to Work in Your Hiring Process

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.

Virginia Aylesworth
Talent Acquisition Manager
Senior Global TA Partner
The Report Behind the Conversation

The report gives you the numbers. These practitioners give you the playbook.

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.

The Starting Point

The data behind the conversation

2-3 Days

Median time from application to first interview. Anything slower and you are already behind the field.

75%

of successful hires reach interview stage by day 8. Miss the window, miss the hire.

47.6%

of hiring leaders rank candidate quality as their #1 priority for 2026, ahead of speed and cost.

55%

of pipeline friction comes from hiring manager alignment and excess screening. Both are fixable.
Based on 37,902 interviews and 1,626 hires analyzed on the FactoryFix platform in 2025, plus survey responses from 83 TA and HR professionals at manufacturing companies and industrial staffing firms · FactoryFix 2026
The Report Behind the Conversation

Built for staffing and RPO leaders who live this tension.

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.

Branch managers and agency owners
Account managers and client services leaders
Staffing coordinators and recruiters placing industrial talent
RPO recruitment strategists and delivery leads
VP and Director-level staffing leadership
It is really hard to balance quality, but balancing speed to market with that quality is essential. Even when a client values our standards, whoever gets to the candidate fastest is what truly matters.
Staffing leader, FactoryFix 2026 Benchmark Report

Hear how two staffing leaders are winning placements in this market

30 minutes with practitioners running the speed-versus-quality math every week. Walk away with a clearer picture of where to compress your funnel and where to hold the line.
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