Manage the revolving door of seasonal temporary workers amid labor shortages and short-notice staffing demands in logistics with Express Employment Professionals.
As the logistics industry reaches peak season, maintaining the correct level of staff becomes more challenging, especially as demand shifts and temporary seasonal workers enter many companies. This can lead to hiring chaos for leaders responsible for finding qualified workers and ensuring sufficient staff to match production demands. When you team with Express, your local employment experts take on recruiting, screening, and matching temporary workers to your company.
What’s Shaping Logistics and Impacting Hiring?
Having the right workers in the right roles is crucial to creating positive outcomes and results for customers. Retaining sufficient staff of qualified workers is complicated and made even more difficult by the factors shaping the logistics industry, including:
- Labor Shortages—Persistent labor shortages may already be making it difficult to hire full-time workers, let alone temporary workers for peak seasons. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported over 308,000 open positions in transportation, warehousing, and utilities. Canada recently recorded 12,615 vacant transport‑truck‑driver positions, highlighting ongoing shortages.
- Disruptions—From regulations to fuel costs, geopolitics, severe weather, and more, numerous disruptions are causing delays, increasing costs, and requiring a new level of agility.
- Automation and AI—Evolving technology will continually impact logistics with new systems that reduce costs and processing time, but bring additional challenges like requiring new skills or training.
As logistics evolves, working with a staffing agency who knows the industry has never been more important. Express understands the unique skills, work ethic, and attention to detail needed for success in logistics.
Effective Strategies to Hire Temporary Workers
Seasonal temporary hiring is beneficial to both workers and companies. For workers, it provides experience, a paycheck, and networking at a new company. For businesses, it helps meet critical production needs without increasing the headcount of permanent employees. Seasonal temporary jobs are often an opportunity for companies to identify potential candidates for future full-time positions.
Hiring managers can source, recruit, and screen seasonal temporary workers on their own. But when worrying about rising costs, delivery deadlines, and industry disruptions, recruiting can fall to the wayside.
Having Express on your side allows you to focus on the most critical parts of business, instead of recruiting. Your local employment experts at Express take care of the recruiting process from verifying applicants’ information to skills evaluation and matching candidates with open roles at your company.
Through our network of connections in the community, we can place workers throughout your company, from entry-level general labor jobs to highly skilled and experienced professional roles. As one of the largest industrial staffing providers, our team is ready to take the pressure of hiring off your shoulders.
Logistics Jobs Available Through Express Employment Professionals, include:
- Call Center Associate
- CDL Driver
- Forklift Driver
- Freight Forwarding Agent
- Import/Export Clerk
- Inventory Coordinator
- Maintenance Technician
- Purchasing Assistant
- Shipping and Receiving Associate
- Supply Technician
- Warehouse Associate
How Express Hires Temporary Workers
Temporary workers are an asset to businesses and a valuable part of workforce management. Temporary workers may be employed through a staffing agency like Express or as an independent contractor on a temporary, short- or long-term basis. Whether it’s for a few days, several months, or longer, you get the workers you need when you need them.
Express handles the recruiting process, including past employment verification, interviews, initial safety training, and more. This saves time and money so you can focus on the most important work instead of hiring.
When you need temporary workers, contact the Express office near you to get started.
Support Beyond Staffing
Keeping up with employment law, regulatory changes, and the latest trends impacting the workforce is tough, especially when added to the disruptions and challenges influencing logistics. Companies that build a relationship with Express receive support and resources to stay up to date on changing trends and regulations impacting the workforce, including:
- Support for changing employment laws
- Development resources
- Insights on the latest workforce trends
- A partnership where Express is committed to your business’ staffing success
When seasonal temporary hiring feels like a revolving door, rely on the employment experts at Express to bring order to the process and streamline recruiting and hiring.
About Express Employment Professionals
At Express Employment Professionals, we’re in the business of people. From job seekers to client companies, Express helps people thrive and businesses grow. Our international network of franchises offers localized staffing solutions to the communities they serve across the U.S., Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, employing more than 11 million since its inception. For more information, visit ExpressPros.com/Employers or ExpressPros.ca/Employers.
