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What are common challenges to attracting people to grain industry jobs, and how can you overcome them?

What information needs to be included in a job description?

How can you know which applicants are right for your company?

What can you do to help a new employee feel at home?

And what factors make an employee stay with a company year after year?

Get the answers to these questions and more with "GEAPS 580: Hiring and Retaining Good Employees in the Grain Industry," the newest course offered by GEAPS-KSU.

GEAPS 580 was developed by Barb Quandt, human resources manager for West Central, and tackles the fundamentals of finding, hiring and keeping great employees in just five weeks.

The course has been specifically designed to give students the tools needed to strengthen their companies' workforces, one employee at a time.

For more information and to register, click here.

PLUS: GEAPS-KSU is reoffering "GEAPS 542: Electrical Safety for Grain and Processing Facilities." Dedicated to the memory of David Brown, who died in 1975 in a grain facility explosion, GEAPS 542 provides a basic understanding of electrical safety requirements for grain elevators and grain-processing facilities.

To learn more, click here.

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• GEAPS / KSU Distance Learning Program

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