Ready for Action Workforce recruitment, training, hiring in full gear for 2020 by Claire Aiello & Katelyn Sides Baker In our December issue, we explained the findings of an extensive labor study recently conducted by Deloitte. Companies in our three-county region (Madison, Morgan & Limestone) report they plan to hire 14,000 people over the next three years, which will stimulate an additional 11,000 support jobs. We can fill some of these with our local talent pool, but the bottom line is, we must attract more people to the area. “We need to ramp up a moonshot effort to get people interested to move to this region,” said Darin Buelow, global location strategy leader for Deloitte. He was referencing the focus leading up to NASA’s 1969 moonshot. The challenge is issued. Opportunity lies ahead, and the name of the game is recruiting. We must make sure people know that the Tennessee Valley region is a great place to live, work, play, and stay. We’re already doing things to move the needle – here’s what these include: 18
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