Hoops HR

10/18/2026

Happy Birthday to Nicole Houston, our Marketing & Business Administration Lead! 🎂

We’re grateful for everything Nicole does for Hoops and for our clients. She’s also about to start an exciting new chapter as a mom, and she’ll begin maternity leave next month. We’re thrilled for her and her family.

Nicole, thank you for all you do. Wishing you a wonderful birthday and a happy, healthy start to this new chapter! 💙

10/15/2026

If a candidate looked up your company right now, would you like what they found?

Plenty of leaders have never checked. And now candidates are asking ChatGPT and Gemini what it’s like to work at your company too, so an old review or an outdated profile can end up telling the whole story.

Our latest blog, “What Candidates (and AI) Find When They Look You Up,” covers where people look, why reviews matter so much, and a 30-minute test you can run this week to see exactly what they see.

Read it here: https://hubs.la/Q04B5kTV0

10/14/2026

Vea recently got back from the trip of a lifetime in Australia, and today we get to celebrate her birthday too! 🎂🎉

Vea has been an integral part of the Hoops family. Her clients love her, her teammates love her, and the feedback we hear about her is always great. She’s a bright light around here, positive, always ready to jump in and help, and exactly who you’d want working alongside you.

Vea, we’re so grateful you’re on this team. Hope your birthday celebration is every bit as good as your trip! 💙

10/13/2026

Before you post a skilled trades job, do you know how many other companies are hiring for the same role, and what they’re paying?

With reshoring pulling more work back to North America, skilled trades talent is only getting harder to win. Knowing the right package to offer (not too high or too low) is a big part of that.

Our latest blog covers how to define the role, build your pipeline early, and hire faster than the bigger companies you’re up against:
https://hubs.la/Q04zZrhZ0

Hiring for skilled or hard-to-fill roles? We’re happy to help!

Get in touch and ask for our FREE custom hiring insights report to help give you a head start.
👉 https://hubs.la/Q04zZrgW0

10/11/2026

🎉 Happy Birthday to our President & COO, Mike Dixon! 🎉

Mike, we are so grateful to have you leading Hoops. What we appreciate most is how much you care about this team and the people we serve.

Thank you for the direction you give us, the standard you set, and the way you show up for all of us. We are better because you are here!

Hope you have a great birthday, Mike. Cheers to the year ahead! 🥂

10/11/2026

🎉 Happy Birthday to our Head of Sales and Business Development, Gregg Fowler! 🎉

We are so lucky to have Gregg in our corner. He leads with relationships, he’s one of the most down to earth people you’ll meet, and everyone who works with him loves him.

He’s been part of the Hoops story for years, and the way he’s helped us grow has taken Hoops to new heights.

He’s celebrating in Thailand right now, and we hope he’s enjoying every minute of it!

Happy Birthday, Gregg! Here’s to another great year. 🥂

10/08/2026

Reshoring is bringing work back to North America, and it's going to take a lot of skilled trades talent to do it. As many as 1.9 million manufacturing jobs could go unfilled by 2033.

Our latest blog covers how to get ahead of it: define the role, build your pipeline early, hire faster, and keep the people you land.

Read it here: https://hubs.la/Q04zymr20

Reshoring is outpacing the supply of skilled trades talent. Here’s how to build your pipeline early and hire faster than bigger competitors.

10/07/2026

"Stuff is coming back that we haven't done on this continent, at least in the U.S. and Canada, in decades."

Mike Dixon shared that with Ali Manki (CEO of Hypergrowth Consulting) on the upcoming People Tech Talk podcast, talking about what we're seeing firsthand in manufacturing, industrial services, and defense.

Real reindustrialization is happening, and the demand we're seeing on the ground backs it up.

Last week's blog gets into where the defense industry's skilled-trade gap could be headed over the next decade, and six steps to get ahead of the competition for talent:

👉 https://bit.ly/4ycUflH

The full podcast episode drops in early November. We'll share it as soon as it's live!

10/01/2026

The defense industry has about 400,000 skilled-trade jobs open right now. That number could reach 2.5 million within a decade.

At Hoops, we're seeing real reindustrialization with our own clients, especially in defense. As our President & COO Mike Dixon put it, "stuff is coming back that we haven't done on this continent, at least in the US and Canada in decades."

So is what we're seeing firsthand happening nationwide?

Yes. Manufacturing job openings are up about 25% in a year. Reshoring is happening too, just slower than the headlines suggest.

And every source pointed back to the same gap: people.

Whether you're in manufacturing, industrial services, construction, defense or almost any other industry, expect more competition for frontline workers and middle managers.

Here's what the latest data shows, plus six steps to get ahead of the race for talent:
👉 https://bit.ly/46QiM4X

Is North America's reindustrialization real? We checked BLS, McKinsey and Deloitte data on reshoring and defense growth, and what it means for hiring and leaders.

09/29/2026

"Lower turnover isn't just about retention. It's a competitive differentiator."
— Mike Dixon, President & COO at Hoops HR

James May opened his podcast conversation with Mike by asking why Hoops doesn't just charge more for hiring. Plenty of firms bill $15k-25k+ a head, place someone, and move on to the next search.

Mike's answer was pretty simple: We're not trying to put people in seats and call it done. We're trying to help build something that actually lasts.

And that usually means looking past the open role itself, at how a company is hiring, how they're onboarding people, how they're developing the team already there, and more. We'd rather fix what's actually broken than slap a new label on the same process and watch it run.

We're motivated by clients winning long after the placement happens, not by closing a search and moving to the next one. That's genuinely the part of this work we care most about.

And the most satisfying part? Our clients end up with real ROI and results that hold up over time, not just a filled seat.

👉 Schedule a free discovery call with Hoops
https://hubs.la/Q04ybm8c0

🎙️ Watch the full podcast
https://hubs.la/Q04ybm250