Filling Jobs Amid New Expectations

Jamie Clark recalls predicting 10 years ago while presenting at a company meeting that the biggest constraint to the company’s growth eventually would be its ability to hire and retain workers. “There were lots of people who looked at me like I had two heads,” says Clark, senior vice president and chief human resources officer (CHRO) at Printpack. “But it was not a hard prediction to make. You just saw it clearly in the historical birth rate demographics.” As time passed, he adds, his prediction came true. “And that is where we are today, primarily in the hourly workforce,” says Clark, who has been the top human resources (HR) executive at the Atlanta-based company for 12 years. “Recruiting people to work in our production facilities and then retaining them is the biggest people challenge we have.”

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