Manpower Addresses the Future of the Manufacturing Workforce and Solutions to Talent Mismatch Challenges at Strategy Session

MILWAUKEE, Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Manpower, the global leader in contingent and permanent recruitment workforce solutions, today hosts its first Industry Challenge Council, an exclusive gathering of industry leaders focused on the future of the manufacturing workforce. The day-long event includes closed-door strategy sessions where employers, trade groups and educators are working together to identify solutions to skills gap challenges of contemporary manufacturing. Manpower also releases a research paper, "The Future of the Manufacturing Workforce", sharing insights from manufacturing experts and solutions needed to navigate through the transformation of the manufacturing industry.

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"For more than 60 years, Manpower has had its finger on the pulse of the manufacturing workforce, and we fully recognize the dramatic changes the industry is facing today," said Jorge Perez, Manpower senior vice president. "In the wake of technology advances, the bar has been raised when it comes to the skills manufacturers are seeking in employees. As a result, people with the right skill set are increasingly hard to find."

Manpower's Industry Challenge Council event incorporates a mix of learning and strategy sessions aimed at manufacturing industry challenges in the areas of talent, technology and education.

"We've created the Manpower Industry Challenge Council to provide an exclusive venue for industry leaders to share ideas and work together to create solutions and initiate change that benefits both job seekers and manufacturers," said Perez. "Today's event will help manufacturers of all sizes succeed in the Human Age, where the skills of individuals are the drivers of economic growth."

During the event, the findings of Manpower's research paper, "The Future of the Manufacturing Workforce", will be shared by writer Tom Davenport, business strategist and author. The paper is organized in a series of reports focused on:

• The dramatically changing manufacturing environment and the emerging technologies
• The rise of the "tech," or manufacturing technical worker, in a contemporary manufacturing industry
• Contemporary manufacturing technologies and the talent to use them
• Approaches to educating the manufacturing workforce on technology
• Policy prescriptions for the manufacturing talent gap

Visit www.manpower.us/manufacturing for more information or to download the paper.

About Manpower
Manpower is the global leader in contingent and permanent recruitment workforce solutions, providing the personal flexibility and agility businesses need with a continuum of staffing solutions. Manpower is part of the ManpowerGroup family of companies, which also includes Experis, ManpowerGroup Solutions and Right Management. More information is available at www.manpower.us.

About ManpowerGroup – United States
ManpowerGroup^™ is an innovative workforce solutions company specializing in temporary and permanent recruitment, career management, outsourcing and HR consulting. Founded in 1948, Milwaukee-based ManpowerGroup is a $22 billion company with offices in more than 80 countries and territories around the world.  Each day, ManpowerGroup connects more than 500,000 people to meaningful work through its relationships with 400,000 clients worldwide. In the United States, ManpowerGroup operates more than 500 offices through its family of companies, including Manpower^®, Experis^™, ManpowerGroup^™ Solutions and Right Management^®. To learn more, visit www.manpowergroup.us and press.manpower.com.

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