It's a New Year with New Opportunities for Career Growth!

It is a New Year, loaded with New Opportunities for Career Growth!

Harlan Companies is hiring a talented and dynamic visual arts professional. While you might not have heard of Harlan or any of our companies, we are a well established leader in a number of industries from commercial development to environmental restoration.

Not familiar with environmental restoration? It is our job to ensure that large energy projects remain environmentally responsible and friendly. We ensure that the natural habitats pipelines and transmission lines travel through do not negatively impact the delicate natural habitats of the plants and animals which reside there.

Harlan Companies also operates in a number of other business niches which will allow you to use your creative abilities in new ways every single day! You will also have the opportunity to assist with a wide variety of digital and visual projects for our sister company, Harlan Foods. Harlan Foods is a North American leader in food manufacturing. Today, we feed 2 in 10 Americans every week. It is pretty likely that you have had a product we make! You can learn more about Harlan Foods by visiting harlanfoods.com.

Interested? Start the New Year with a new career opportunity by applying for this position today.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!

When you love what you do, it isn't work. And, we here at Harlan Foods LOVE breakfast and snack time. We make some of the most delicious muffins and Gluten-Free organic granola you will find-and finding it is easy.

Our muffins are available at a variety of retailers and club stores-and coming soon to a major quick serve restaurant chain! Our granola is available under many of your favorite brands found at your local grocery.

You don't always know Harlan Foods makes the products you love, but we do. Each week, we provide delicious food choices to 2 in 10 Americans like these mouth-watering items!

If you are interested in applying and joining us as a Certified Food Professional, you can apply today by clicking here on this link!

Helping to guarantee the success of every new employee is what we do here at Harlan

New jobs can be hard. When you take a new job, it is often because you are looking to improve. More money, better opportunities, better benefits. Maybe you are looking to get promoted and move up faster. There are lots of reasons to take a new job.

But do you know the number one reason people leave new jobs in the first month?

It is because they don't feel welcome. That is why 4 out of 5 new employees leave. They don't feel welcome, they feel excluded, they don't feel safe and they feel alone and frustrated.

This is usually because the culture of the organization doesn't value how employees feel and what is important to them.

That is not the case at Harlan. Not only do we value our employees, we work hard as a team to ensure that our new employees thrive and succeed right out of the gate.

Our Harlan Food Manufacturing Professionals all receive specialized certifications under our S.A.F.E. program, which stands for Standards Based, Accountability Driven, Food Excellence.

These employees aren't just incentivized to work with new employees. They WANT to! Team members work together to support new employees, helping them over their first 90 days learn their job, make friends and learn what they need to know in order to pass their S.A.F.E. AFP certification.

When new employees achieve their AFP, their graduation is a small celebration for everyone. The employee who just passed their AFP at that 90 day period gets a raise and a promotion. Their mentors also receive a bonus for their work in helping the new employee getting their AFP certification.

Mentoring has rapidly become part of Harlan Food's culture. We love the feeling of helping our team members succeed. In fact mentoring is part of our company mission. We have 3 Mission Pillars: Integrity, Quality & Customer Service. 'HELP OTHERS SUCCEED' is part of our Integrity Pillar. We have learned that when we do this, everyone succeeds.

Take a look at a small example of some of our mentoring activities. This is what we do to help each other succeed, remain safe and have fun at work every single day.

If this is something you'd like to learn more about, just click here to get to our Fast Track Application.

Does Workplace Culture Matter?

Does a positive workplace culture matter?

It's pretty simple really. Yes.

You can determine if your workplace has a good culture by asking yourself a few simple questions.

Do you like going to work?
Do you feel valued or part of a team?
Do you feel like what you do matters, or is it just a job?
Does management communicate where the business is heading, how it is doing and importantly, give you the 'why' behind any of this?
Are you provided with clear opportunities for professional and personal growth that can help to make you better?
Do people in your workplace smile, joke, laugh or have fun on the job?
Do you look forward to leaving more than you don't?
Is diversity encouraged and supported in your workplace?

If you answered 'no' to any of these questions, then your workplace might not have the best culture. And, if any of these things are important to you, you might want to look for a new job.

Why? Today, you can find a job pretty much anywhere you want. You can always find a place to make money. You can't get the time you waste in a dead end job back though. Never waste your time in a dead end job with an employer that doesn't care about you. Never. You are worth more.

Building a positive culture takes time and isn't easy, especially when there are a lot of employees who are from diverse backgrounds. The thing you want to look for in an employer is are they committed to constantly improving culture along with business performance?

The team at Harlan Foods realizes how important a positive culture and workplace is. We have launched a number of programs designed to grow and expand the well-being of our team of Food Professionals. Yes, we call our employees 'Food Professional' because that is what they are. Each week, we feed 1 in 10 Americans with safe, nutritious and delicious food. Only professionals can do that.

For 2023, our mission is to link our mission of feeding American families with our S.A.F.E. program and a positive, healthy culture which fosters personal growth and team unity.

Here are some of the programs we have launched for our team's well-being and success:

Mentorship support program for new employees
Mentor success bonuses that are directly tied to the success and happiness of new employees
Safety bonuses
Pay for Performance
Company paid healthcare clinic available for our Food Professionals, which is also accessible by spouses and children
Job/Interest/Skills matching
2023 Base pay increases
Specialty role bonuses
Industry-leading professional training and certifications

In the first half of 2023, we are launching even more programs designed to improve the welfare, happiness and satisfaction of our team. They are our greatest asset. As a family run company, our commitment to this cause is in part why 20% of our workforce has been with us ten years or more.

We'd thought we would share a few pictures of a day at Harlan. If you like what you see and are looking for a better opportunity, then give us an opportunity to share with you what Harlan is all about.

It pays to be S.A.F.E.

Meet Destiny. Destiny has been with Harlan for over 5 years and works at our Irvington, Indiana facility. Destiny recently was promoted to a Champion Level Mentor where she works with new employees, who are called 'Apprentices' to ensure they are successful during their 90 day food manufacturing internship.

After the first two weeks of paid, on the job training, every single Apprentice is assigned their own Mentor, like Destiny. The Mentor's primary role is to help Apprentices be successful and find happiness in what they are doing as they learn their new roles.

After successfully completing the Mentorship program, Apprentices are able to earn their AFP certification as soon as 90 days from when they are hired. When an Apprentice achieves their AFP certification, they receive an IMMEDIATE pay increase!

How does this make our employees feel? Here is Johnson after he received his AFP certification. He looks pretty happy!

As a Mentor, Destiny can earn $500 for each Apprentice she works during their 90-day Mentorship program. That can add up to a $6,000 in bonus pay each year!

Destiny recently shared, "I love helping my Apprentice team mates become happy and successful here. It's very rewarding to me to be able to work with them each day and see them grow in their new roles. When I am able to help them graduate and achieve their AFP Certification, it is so worth it. They get a very important industry certification for free and a pay increase to go along with it! What's not to love about that?!"

Click on Destiny's picture or click here to hear more about Destiny's role as a Harlan Mentor and how making more money doing that has made her even happier here at Harlan.

Being a mentor is open to all Harlan employees who have been with the company for a year and have passed both their AFP Certification as well as their Champion Mentor Certification.

What would you do this holiday season if you knew you'd be making up to an additional $6,000 per year just by helping others?