Recruitment News and Hiring Advice

Manufacturing hiring trends are shifting. The Q4 2025 Employment Benchmark Report from Top Quality Recruitment explores how employers in packaging, life sciences, and food & beverage are managing retention, stabilizing headcount, and attracting skilled talent in a cooling labor market.

Hiring is never one-size-fits-all. The strategy that works in one market can completely fail in another. That’s because the balance of power in hiring shifts constantly between two dynamics: an employer-driven market and a candidate-driven market.

Step-by-step advice for operators who want to move into supervisory roles, including mastering their role, leadership skills, and problem-solving.

A candidate-focused guide to the key certifications for food plant jobs, including HACCP, GMP, SQF, forklift licenses, and workplace safety training.

Quality Assurance and Quality Control are not the same, and understanding the difference is crucial whether you’re applying for a role, managing a plant, or trying to improve production performance.

GMP, HACCP, SQF and more. Here are a few of the most common and valuable certifications across food and beverage manufacturing environments — especially for production, quality, and safety-focused jobs.

Food safety is non-negotiable — not just for consumer protection, but for regulatory compliance, brand reputation, and operational success.

A safety-first culture starts at the top. If plant leadership treats safety as a compliance requirement instead of a shared value, your team will too.

As a Plant Manager, your role goes far beyond ensuring daily operations run smoothly. To do your job effectively, you need to focus on the right key performance indicators (KPIs).

Hiring and keeping top-tier line leads is one of the toughest challenges in food manufacturing but you don’t need to increase base pay to win. Here's a data-driven, strategic approach that gets results.