The floor at the VisABILITY Center is no different than what you might see on the floor of any other local business – employees busy packaging product, some operating light and heavy machinery.
 
There’s one distinct difference, however. The facility, a recently converted Sam’s Club now run by local non-profit Beyond Vision, is the workplace for dozens of blind and visually impaired individuals from throughout the region.
 
Beyond Vision offers a variety of services and products to both private sector organizations and government customers. While one employee might be packaging kits for the U.S. Department of Defense in one corner of the floor, a colleague might be busy with contract work for Harley Davidson in another.

In a competitive job market, attracting and retaining talent can be a huge challenge for area companies. Today, recruiters aren’t only selling salary and benefits, but the location as well.
 
To give recruiters and other stakeholders an edge when selling the Milwaukee region, MMAC and VISIT Milwaukee are hosting a half-day event – the Talent Recruitment Summit – from 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 30, at Potawatomi Casino Hotel.

MMAC coalition of companies significantly outpaces metro average for diverse hiring

MILWAUKEE – A group of 125-plus Milwaukee Region employers engaged in the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) Region of Choice consortium remain on track to meet five-year goals for recruiting, retaining and advancing Black and Brown employees – and are significantly outpacing the overall region’s rate of diverse hiring.

In today’s marketplace, attracting employees is just as critical as attracting new customers. Many businesses in our region are limited in their ability to grow because they’re not able to attract the employees they need. Successful companies realize that they need to apply the same marketing efforts they deploy to grow sales and revenue to attract the employees they need.