Talent Traction Guides
Unlock expert insights to transform your recruitment strategy. Our free guides are designed for HR leaders, talent acquisition teams, and industry professionals facing hiring challenges in industrial sectors. Download them to gain actionable advice on talent gaps, compensation trends, and streamlined processes. Each guide is packed with data-driven strategies to help you cut through recruiting noise and build high-performing teams.
Featured Guides
The How to Hire a Sales Rep Blueprint
In the fast-paced world of industrial and manufacturing sales, finding skilled and motivated sales professionals has never been tougher. According to LinkedIn’s 2025 Workforce Report, sales roles are among the top five hardest-to-fill positions, taking 32% longer to hire than most other roles.
Download the full guide to get actionable frameworks, benchmarking insights, and interview structures that help industrial leaders build resilient, high-performing sales teams. Designed for sales directors, HR leaders, and talent acquisition professionals, this guide simplifies complex hiring challenges into a structured, repeatable process.
The Manufacturing Recruiting Kit
Winning the manufacturing talent race means modernizing how you hire.
This practical playbook, built on the Talent Traction 5-Phase Hiring Framework, helps leaders attract, evaluate, and retain top industrial talent with structure and precision.
It includes proven tools mission-driven scorecards, outreach matrices, and onboarding workflows that replace guesswork with measurable recruiting systems built for the modern plant floor.
The Manufacturing Executive’s Guide to Passive Candidate Recruiting
Winning today’s talent war requires reaching beyond job boards. This playbook helps executives engage the 70% of the workforce who are passive candidates, offering frameworks, outreach strategies, and benchmarks to fill critical roles.
Key Highlights: Proven 3-step recruiting framework, outreach templates that boost response rates by 3–4x, and metrics to measure ROI on passive hiring.
Automotive Industry Salary Guide 2026
Navigate the evolving compensation landscape in automotive manufacturing, aftermarket, and mobility sectors. This comprehensive report covers salary benchmarks, market dynamics, and retention strategies for critical roles like EV engineers and software specialists.
Key Highlights: Average salary inflation at 8.2%, geographic variances up to 35%, and tips for retaining technical talent.