Agriculture & meatpacking
Half the people who keep America's produce moving and meat processed are immigrants. Many have years of agricultural supervision or animal-handling experience that never shows up in a US-style resume. Astris HR surfaces them.
Built around the skills that actually transfer
An Afghan agricultural supervisor has crop-cycle planning, team leadership, equipment maintenance, tractor operation, seasonal hiring experience. Curated skills inference surfaces all of it from the occupation alone.
Critical food-safety credentials are first-class match inputs. Workers with prior HACCP training (anywhere in the world) get credit. Workers without it get a months-to-ready estimate.
Honest signal a candidate can do the physical work. Self-validated by the candidate; never assumed by the employer.
Astris handles seasonal, peak, and rotating shifts as distinct schedule profiles — not a single full-time/part-time toggle. Better matches for harvest, lambing, holiday processing.
DCs near population centers are easy. Rural processing plants are hard. Astris surfaces transportation availability per zip and per shift — including carpool, employer-provided transit, and rideshare.
Critical safety training translated into the worker's language matters more here than almost anywhere else. Astris's translation layer covers Spanish, Haitian Creole, K'iche', Mam, Q'anjob'al, Arabic, Dari, Pashto, and more.
The retention story
Average 90-day retention in meat processing is below 50%. Below 30% in some plants. Astris doesn't fix the underlying conditions, but it stops bad matches before the offer.
| Retention forecast on every match | 30/90/180/365-day probability curve. Plants get to make staffing decisions with eyes open. |
| Termination reason coding | Coded reasons for every separation. Aggregated per plant and per occupation. Employers see whether their own conditions are the issue. |
| Employer quality score | Glassdoor + Indeed + observed retention feed Employer.qualityScore. Candidates favor employers with track records. |
| Caseworker-supported placements | Refugee/immigrant placements through resettlement orgs come with caseworker support for the first 90 days — drives retention measurably higher than direct-hire. |
See Astris HR in your workflow
Run it against your candidate base or a sample JD. We'll set up a tenant in under a day and show you the matches your existing tools are missing.
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