Plugging the Skills Gap: Recruiting, Training, and Developing Multi-Craft Talent
The webinar "Plugging the Skills Gap: Recruiting, Training, and Developing Multi-Craft Talent" features industry experts Tim McDaniel and Dan Clapper sharing strategies to address the shortage of skilled multi-craft technicians in industrial maintenance by refining hiring processes, using data-driven assessments, and implementing effective training to build a productive workforce that reduces downtime and improves business outcomes.
In This Webinar
In today’s industrial maintenance industry, companies face a growing challenge: finding and retaining skilled multi-craft technicians. With a shortage of qualified professionals, organizations must rethink their approach to recruiting, training, and developing talent.
Join us for an insightful webinar where industry experts Tim McDaniel and Dan Clapper share strategies to bridge the skills gap and build a workforce that enhances productivity, reduces downtime, and improves business outcomes. Learn how to refine your hiring process, leverage data-driven assessments, and cultivate multi-craft talent to ensure long-term success.
You will learn:
- Best practices for evaluating your most-critical hiring needs
- How to use metrics to better inform strategic hiring decisions
- Proven ways to build strong multi-craft technicians
- Tips to accelerate employee development
- Insights into how training connects to improving bottom line
Meet The Speakers
Dan Clapper
Head of Learner and Business Outcomes
With over 25 years of experience in a variety of roles across the HVAC market, Dan has developed a passion for helping trade professionals grow their businesses and their people. From installing boilers and HVAC equipment with his father as a teenager to training thousands of HVAC professionals across the country at the manufacturing level, Dan has a unique perspective on best practices for developing and maintaining a strong team. At Interplay, Dan helps business owners and leaders leverage 3D simulation-based training to help attract new talent to the industry and upskill them faster and more efficiently than ever before.
Tim McDaniel
Solutions Consultant, SME
Tim draws from his 35-plus years of field and engineering experience to provide consultation on quality engineering solutions, maintenance training and support, and designs for training for the existing and future workforce. Prior to joining Interplay, Tim served as Executive Vice President of TPC iSchematic, where he not only led a team that provided products and services to various industrial and commercial clientele but also supported online and instructor-led training across various divisions. Over the course of his career, Tim has been responsible for engineering and consulting services, new product development and support, and curriculum development for various companies, including American Trainco, National Technology Transfer, and Industrial Trainers of America.
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