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Recruiting, hiring, training, and maintaining a strong workforce is important in a craft brewery. The best practices in this section are intended to help you find the right people for your business, train them to be the best employees they can be, and keep them for the long run.
For the September/October 2021 The New Brewer, we present our Workforce Challenges issue. In November 2021, 4.5 million employees quit their jobs, and the Great Resignation has had reverberating effects on the craft brewing industry in the form of labor shortages and other challenges.Read More
This issue is brought to you by Craft Brewers Conference® & Brew Expo America®
Between April and June 2021, 11.5 million workers quit their jobs, the U.S. Department of Labor reported. Craft breweries were not immune to the Great Resignation.
Just as we invest in equipment, it is essential to invest in the people who make packaging happen. Packaging deserves to be treated as a legitimate career path.
Learn practical pipeline development strategies to increase the breadth, depth, and diversity of your pool of qualified job applicants.Read More
Keeping your staff interested and involved with the training process can be a challenge, so refreshing frequently with new training concepts can be the key to success.
It’s not just good beer and food that makes a brewpub successful; it’s the people who work there, too. The beer may sell itself, but somebody’s got to serve it—and do it well.
Your bartenders and servers are on the front lines of communication and interaction with customers. They need the tools, information, and education to be your “beer liaisons.”
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