Mexico’s maquiladora industry is experiencing some significant recovery evidenced by a substantial increase in new Greenfield projects going into Monterrey, Saltillo, Reynosa and further south in such areas as Queretaro and Toluca. While many of these start-ups are additional manufacturing plant expansions, many others are the company’s first entry into Mexico. Unemployed job seekers in these markets are now being re-employed at an increasingly faster pace. Higher levels of security and a greater abundance of well educated talent is cited as contrubuting factors.
Other border regions such as Sonora and Baja California are also experiencing a recovery, however at a much slower pace. The security situation in Cd Juarez appears to be pushing some companies to consider moving their maquiladora operations to more secure locations.
Warren Carter is an Executive Recruiter in Qualifind, Inc. You can share your responses with Warren by e-mail at: wcarter@quali-find.com
Qualifind, Inc. provides professional and executive search services for specific disciplines and industries throughout the U.S. and Mexico. We are a U.S. based firm with our corporate offices in San Diego, California. We have branch offices and recruiting staff in the U.S. (i.e Chicago, Austin) and Mexico (i.e. Monterrey, Mexico City).
This is fairly typical of what happens in a job market as the economy begins to emerge from a recession. What appears to be different now, is that many employers are looking to stay flexible in the long term by using contingent talent to manage everything from projects to entire functional departments. That also means the traditional definition of a “temp” is now expanding from clerical and manual labor roles to engineers, accountants, doctors, lawyers and other professions at all ranks and payscales.
