Labor-starved restaurants, bars add bonuses, increased wages to the menu
Local restaurant owners battling a nationwide labor shortage are using alternative recruiting techniques and financial incentives to try to staff a returning dinner rush.
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Indy-area tech community still wrestling with diversity, equity, inclusion
Discussion and debate at Friday’s IBJ Tech Power Panel event focused largely on how companies can do a better job recruiting and hiring diverse employees, as well as the ability of diverse entrepreneurs to raise venture and growth capital from a cadre of investors who largely remain white and male.
First Internet Bank beefs up small-business lending division with new hires
Fishers-based First Internet Bank began assembling its Small Business Administration lending division in late 2018.
Indianapolis Public Schools struggles to recruit racially diverse staff, review shows
IPS is not alone in the struggle to hire and retain staff of color. School districts in Indianapolis, throughout the state, and nationwide also have labored over trying to recruit teachers and other staff of color.
Anticipation building for boom in U.S. hiring this year
After a year of epic job losses, waves of coronavirus infections, and small business closures, numerous trends are brightening the outlook.
Indianapolis-based Bastian Solutions on 400-employee hiring spree
Bastian Solutions, which makes conveyor systems, robotics and other automated materials-handling items often used by the retail industry, has seen growth accelerate because of the pandemic.
Allegion hires new Carmel-based exec to lead Americas business
Luis Orbegoso, 50, joins Allegion from American Residential Services. He’ll be based in Allegion’s Carmel office and oversee the security-products company’s operations in the Americas.
WTHR, WRTV add morning news anchors
WTHR-TV Channel 13 has hired a weekend morning anchor and weekday morning reporter, and WRTV-TV Channel 6 has added a morning anchor.
Indy Chamber announces leadership change at Develop Indy
Indy Chamber executive Ian Nicolini has moved into the organization’s long-vacant role of chief operating officer, and Portia Bailey-Bernard has taken over Nicolini’s former position as the chamber’s economic development leader.
Pandemic reinvents holiday hiring for retailers
The push to hire temporary workers has begun in earnest this holiday season—in some cases, weeks earlier than last year. But the pandemic has reshaped the kinds of jobs retailers are trying to fill.
Indianapolis-based IMH Products acquires Brownsburg manufacturer
IMH said it plans to move Mainstay’s equipment and its 38 employees to its Indianapolis facilities by year’s end. Both companies are in the metal fabrication business.
U.S. hiring slows for 3rd straight month, but jobless rate falls to 7.9%
The September jobs report coincides with other data that suggests that while the economic picture may be improving, the gains have slowed since summer.
Hotels at Pan Am Plaza to create 600 jobs paying at least $14 an hour
The project, which includes plans for a $125 million expansion of the Indiana Convention Center, would also create 2,500 construction jobs before completion in 2025.
IBJ Podcast: Advice for hiring and nurturing a diverse workforce
Attorney Angela Freeman, who has spent six years on the board of Women & Hi Tech, recommends using diverse committees—rather than leaving the job to one individual—for hiring and then assigning new employees, especially minority hires, to mentors who are invested in their success.
Companies touting Black Lives Matter face workforce scrutiny
Some of the biggest companies pledging solidarity with their black employees and the black community often fall short in their efforts to recruit, maintain and promote minorities within their own ranks.
STAR Bank names new Indianapolis market president
The Fort Wayne-based bank’s new Indianapolis market president, Tim Oliver, will primarily work from the bank’s new Monument Circle location, which opened earlier this year.
U.S. gains whopping 266,000 jobs; unemployment rate hits 50-year low
In Friday’s hiring data, besides reporting the healthy November gain, the government revised up its estimate of job growth for September and October by a combined 41,000.
Former WISH-TV journalist returns to station as multicultural reporter
Katiera Winfrey, who grew up in Indianapolis, will be “the state’s first-ever television journalist dedicated exclusively to covering stories affecting Indiana’s diverse population,” according to station officials.
U.S. posts better-than-expected October jobs numbers despite GM strike
U.S. employers added a solid 128,000 jobs in October, a figure that was held down by a now-settled strike against General Motors that caused several thousand workers to be temporarily counted as unemployed.
Employers say they’re up for challenge of hiring seasonal help
With the unemployment rate at 3.2% and competition growing as multiple companies ramp up hiring, finding seasonal employees will be tough.