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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing
They are talking about this topic: Educational Partnerships
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers suggest opening or re-opening programs in welding, mining, and electronic technology.
| "Given that indication that the demand for people working in the iron ore industry is going to be great for the next decade or so, it seems to me that the problem is that you hire people to work in the production jobs, and they have no understanding of the industry other than what they've heard from their grandpa or their mom or their dad. They don't understand what they're doing out there. We may be able to teach them to drive a truck or teach them whatever immediate skills they need to learn, but if they don't understand the basics of how a mining company works with drilling and blasting—sort of every stage of the industry—it's problematic. So, I think it would be a good idea if someone were to offer a certificate program to give the kids an understanding of what the mining industry—or the paper industry or whatever industry—does." | Northeast |
| "My son is an industrial technologist, and he always wanted to take a welding course. But he never could get one because he was in a four-year college where they didn't have it. So there is a gap there, too. So, you know, you're talking about this welding simulator and stuff, part of that maybe should get into [MnSCU college] there. Although I think you may have welding, don't you? So, some places might have a little cross-over, but not all of these four-year colleges do. So, you have people possibly out of [MnSCU college] that can't schedule a welding short course or things like that." | Northwest |
| "Then when we get to MnSCU, the technical college, they need to become as nimble as we are to survive this thing. If there's a need for welders, then a program ought to exist to train welders. And, if next year we need machinists, have the machine trades program. If they can't get as dynamic—it's like it's a giant ship that you can't turn even though it's going to hit an iceberg. It's got to be as nimble and as agile as we manufacturers are." | Southeast |
| "Employer 1: There's no feeder here for welders, and that's a major problem. And we also have a need for draftsmen, but we're not hiring those as much as we're hiring welders. But there's no program for that at [MnSCU college]. Employer 2: So, there's demand for the jobs, but there's no program. And then MnSCU decided there was no program because no one enrolls." |
Southwest |