Background:
In early 2024, our client, an aerospace manufacturing company based in Hebron, KY, was struggling with staffing challenges and high employee turnover. Part of a large network of affiliate companies under a multibillion-dollar parent company, they faced significant hiring and retention issues. With a headcount of 85 employees supporting major clients such as SpaceX, Boeing, Rolls Royce, and GE Aerospace, they needed immediate recruitment support to stabilize their workforce and continue their critical operations in aerospace engines, space technology, alternative energy, medical devices, power generation, and military applications.
The Pain:
Our client was experiencing an unsustainable workforce loss rate of 62% over the previous 12 months as of Q1 2024. The high attrition was creating instability in operations, increasing hiring costs, and threatening production timelines. Their recruitment expenses had reached approximately $22,000 per month, yet they struggled to attract and retain the right talent. Leadership was under pressure to turn things around quickly to ensure business continuity and long-term success.
Warriors' Mission:
1) Fill 15-17 new hires within 45 days while ensuring cultural and skillset alignment.
2) Improve retention by ensuring Warriors recruited talent that fit both the company’s culture and technical requirements.
3) Reduce overall hiring costs by increasing hiring efficiency and minimizing turnover.
4) Partner with our client’s internal HR team to ensure seamless onboarding and integration of new hires.
Objective & Deadline:
45-days to achieve measurable improvements in hiring and employee retention
Our Results:
• Warriors increased our client’s workforce by 30% within 6-months, growing from 85 to 110 employees.
• Warriors reduced our client’s workforce loss rate from 62% to 35% for the rolling 12 months by the end of Q4 2024.
• After engaging our Recruiting services, Warriors achieved an even stronger retention improvement in the last two quarters of 2024 dropping the workforce loss rate down to 3-5%.
• Warriors submitted 158 qualified candidates, exceeding expectations for qualified talent.
• Warriors coordinated and scheduled 126 interviews to ensure the best candidates moved forward.
• Warriors successfully collected 35 signed offers of employment, demonstrating strong hiring efficiency.
• Our client currently has 31 new, FTEs supporting their operations identified through Warriors.
• Warriors’ consistent on-site presence ensured seamless candidate integration, from walking them into interviews to supporting them through the onboarding process.
• Warriors operated as both a recruiting partner and HR assistant, working closely with our client’s HR team to ensure a smooth and painless onboarding experience for new hires.
• Warriors successfully reduced monthly recruiting expenses by 48%.
Conclusion:
Through a strategic partnership with Warriors Recruiting, our client was able to transform its workforce stability within six months. By implementing a targeted hiring and retention strategy, Warriors helped achieve a dramatic reduction in turnover while expanding their team to meet growing business demands. Our seamless integration into our client’s business practices enabled smoother hiring processes, better retention, and stronger company-wide morale.
The Warriors Recruiting Engine delivered results that not only stabilized the company but also set them on a path for sustained growth and efficiency. Our success in this partnership led to exclusive recruiting rights, solidifying Warriors as our client’s trusted and sole recruiting partner for ongoing hiring needs.
