Logistics & warehouse
Distribution centers and 3PLs around NJ port + Newark + Elizabeth hire thousands of forklift operators, pallet jack runners, dock workers, and CDL drivers every quarter. Astris HR matches the candidates who can do the work — including immigrants whose foreign warehouse experience traditional keyword search misses.
Built around how warehouse hiring actually works
Skills + safety creds + schedule + transportation — not GPAs, not résumé layouts. Astris's 7-component scorer weights what matters in a DC.
An Afghan agricultural supervisor and a Salvadoran prep cook both have material-handling experience their resumes don't articulate. Astris's curated occupation→skills map surfaces those skills automatically.
Required certifications are first-class match inputs. Candidates missing a credential get a months-to-ready estimate, not a silent rejection.
Day, swing, overnight, weekend — combined with the candidate's childcare and transportation constraints. A great forklift operator who can't do overnight without childcare is filtered before they apply, not after.
Newark Penn rail vs. own-vehicle vs. carpool — surfaced per candidate. Distance to the DC matters less than whether transit actually runs at shift change.
Warehouse retention is brutal — the industry average for new forklift hires at 90 days is ~60%. Astris's retention forecast flags matches that are unlikely to hold so you don't burn referral capital.
Spanish, Dari, Pashto, Arabic, Haitian Creole. The day-1, week-1, month-1 check-ins land in the worker's language. Caseworker gets surfaced any reported issue.
Why NJ + this vertical
The Port of New York and New Jersey moves 8M+ TEUs a year. Newark-Elizabeth is the densest warehouse cluster on the east coast. Refugee + immigrant labor is a quarter of the workforce.
| Population fit | Newark, Elizabeth, Paterson, Jersey City all have established refugee resettlement infrastructure plus large immigrant communities. The candidates exist in your zip codes. |
| Existing partners | Lighthouse Refugee Services + Newark Works are pilot partners — case studies in development. Astris is built from the ground up to serve their candidates. |
| Brutal honesty about turnover | We don't pretend Astris fixes warehouse turnover by itself. We commit to making each placement decision auditable, surfacing the retention forecast before the offer, and learning from every termination reason. |
| Wage transparency | Astris exposes the hourly range the employer set, the comparable open-role range in the same zip, and the candidate's stated minimum. Three numbers, side by side, on every match. |
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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