The Human Resources and Training Coordinator with Manitoba Pork says a new Hiring Handbook, developed for pork producers, will help them meet the challenges of finding, hiring and retaining workers.
Last month Manitoba Pork officially unveiled a new Hiring Handbook to help pork producers with the hiring process and a new Employee Manual to be used by workers as a reference.
The new resources are being made available both electronically and in hard copy through Manitoba Pork.
Janice Goldsborough, the Human Resources and Training Coordinator with Manitoba Pork, says, in an increasingly competitive market for labor, finding and hiring people to work in swine barns has become increasingly challenging.
I did a survey of a lot of the independent producers last year. It came out that a lot of them were unsure about the hiring process, what was involved, what they could do to make it better. They were unsure about what kind of questions that they can and can not ask in an interview so this will help them in that regard.
Most of our independent producers want to hire locally but that’s a big challenge so it provides them with a few suggestions of where else they could look outside of the own little local area but still stay within the province or within Canada before having to look at other resources from outside.
I’m hoping that this manual will help them be more confident in their hiring decisions and guide them along the way to hire locally before they have to look globally.
~ Janice Goldsborough, Manitoba Pork
Goldsborough says the Hiring Handbook contains information on where to look for candidates and where to advertise available jobs and includes sample job ads. She says it also explains the recruitment process, provides tips on conducting the interview including what kinds of questions can and can not be asked and offers advice on doing reference checks and preparing offer letters.
