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Craig Klug, an extrusion press operator, works at Alexandria Industries in Alexandria, Minnesota. The component manufacturer, with about 550 employees, is facing a shortage of workers to fill skilled and unskilled positions. (Jenn Ackerman / The New York Times)
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Manufacturers increase efforts to woo workers to rural areas

Some recruiting methods: Higher wages, tax incentives for those relocating and the forgiveness of student loans, as well as enhanced training for students, new recruits and current employees.
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Craig Klug, an extrusion press operator, works at Alexandria Industries in Alexandria, Minnesota. The component manufacturer, with about 550 employees, is facing a shortage of workers to fill skilled and unskilled positions. (Jenn Ackerman / The New York Times)

Manufacturers increase efforts to woo workers to rural areas

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When to ask for a consulting fee

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Steve Haas, a senior engagement leader at World Vision in Federal Way, gives a talk to athletes at the Hood to Coast Relay in Oregon in 2017. He says this year, Team World Vision athletes went over the $3 million fundraising mark for clean water to South Sudan in six years of competing. (Courtesy of Steve Haas)

Helping the world from Federal Way

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Nora Flanagan, chair of the English department at Northside College Prep High School in Chicago, shows her tattoos, which include references to her favorite books. (Chris Walker / Chicago Tribune via TNS)

Go ahead, get a tattoo. Your boss shouldn’t mind.

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Plagued by thought that boss could have done more for sick employee

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The 10 jobs with the biggest gender-pay gap

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Careers is produced by the Advertising Publications Department of The Seattle Times. Editor: Michelle Archer.