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FREE 30-MIN HIRING AUDIT
Why are your finalists going elsewhere?
A free 30-minute hiring audit with Robert Meeker, TYGES Managing Director, manufacturing practice. Robert hears the unfiltered version every day: what manufacturing candidates actually say after they turn companies down. You'll walk away with your blind spots, your specific fixes, and a market read on your sector.
No sales pitch. No catch.
3,000+ Manufacturing Placements • 23 years • 3:1 Interview-to-placement ratio
IF ANY OF THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR
Manufacturing hiring is harder than it should be.
The talent market shifted in 2023 and never shifted back. Comp ranges that worked two years ago miss by 15-20%. Top candidates are off the market in 14 days. And the offers that used to close cleanly are coming back countered, declined, or ghosted.
Losing finalists you should be winning
Candidates you spent 6 weeks recruiting are taking competing offers — or worse, going to companies you didn't even know were in the running.
Time-to-fill creeping past 60 days
Roles that used to close in 30-45 days are stretching into the second quarter. Each extra week costs you in productivity, agency fees, and team morale.
Offers getting countered or quietly declined
Verbal yeses turning into "I need to think about it" turning into a polite no. Your comp is competitive on paper — so what's the actual issue?
Paying for searches you're still not closing
You've worked with two or three agencies. The candidates are fine. You're still not getting offers accepted. Something upstream isn't working.
MEET ROBERT
Robert Meeker
Managing Director · TYGES Manufacturing Practice
Robert leads the manufacturing practice at TYGES. Over the last 8 years he’s placed operations, engineering, supply chain, and corporate leaders at manufacturers ranging from $50M plants to multi-billion-dollar global operators. More importantly, he’s spoken with thousands of candidates who said no to good offers — and he can tell you, with specifics, why.
When you book a hiring audit with Robert, you’re not getting a sales pitch. You’re getting the direct read of someone who is in market with manufacturing candidates every single week — and who is willing to tell you what your hiring process looks like from the other side of the table.
Robert was very personable, gave great insight, spent time with me giving advice, coaching, and kept in close contact during the journey.
WHAT YOU'LL GET
A diagnostic conversation. Not a sales pitch.
Every audit is a 30-minute Teams or phone call with Robert. Tightly run, hard stop at 30 minutes. Three things he’ll cover:
NOT READY TO BOOK A CALL?
Take the 6-question hiring audit first.
Self-paced, 5 minutes, no salesperson involved. Six questions across three categories — offer competitiveness, process speed, and candidate experience. You’ll get a personalized scored report (PDF) you can share with your team and a clear picture of where your gaps are before deciding if a 30-minute call with Robert is worth your time.
- A 4-page personalized report with your scores, your gaps, your fixes
- A 0–12 score across 3 categories so you can benchmark against your team's intuition
- The highest-leverage fixes for your specific answers, not generic advice
WHO THIS IS FOR
You’ll get the most out of this if…
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You're a hiring manager, HR leader, or executive at a manufacturer
Operations, engineering, supply chain, corporate, plant or HQ — all good. -
You've lost at least one finalist in the last
12 months If everything's closing cleanly, you don't need this. If even one good candidate slipped, the diagnostic is worth 30 minutes. -
You're hiring above $100K
And treating the role as a strategic decision, not a transaction. -
You're open to direct, specific feedback
Even if some of it is uncomfortable. Robert isn't going to tell you what you want to hear. -
You're solving the problem, not just shopping for the lowest fee
If you're collecting agency proposals to pressure your incumbent, this isn't that.