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ManufacturingWorks ManufacturingWorks is a collaborative between Instituto and the City of Chicago’s Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development. ManufacturingWorks is a centralized service center for employers that responds to the growing concern over the insufficient number of skilled workers in the Chicago manufacturing industry. Instituto serves as the fiscal agent and lead managing and operational organization for ManufacturingWorks. Instituto also chairs the steering committee and the human resources development committee for the program. ManufacturingWorks works with companies to:
Last year, ManufacturingWorks successfully helped employ 530 individuals at nearly 130 Chicagoland companies. “ManufacturingWorks has done an outstanding job of placing people at our facility. They sent us 9 candidates for recent openings and we hired 7 of them. We couldn’t achieve that kind of interview-to-hire ratio without them. Dottie Pigozzo, Vice President of Human Resources “The time, dedication and focus that ManufacturingWorks put into identifying the right candidates has helped Kraft hire 145 new workers. Their ability to expedite and streamline the selection process has resulted in significant dollar savings in advertising costs and the time of the Kraft Management group.” Amy Wood, Human Resources Manager ManufacturingWorks was a featured as a best-practice case study in the Summer 2007 issue of “Sectoral Strategies for Low-Income Workers: Lessons from the Field,” published by The Aspen Institute Workforce Strategies Initiative. For more information on ManufacturingWorks visit www.chicagomfgworks.com
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