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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Transportation
They are talking about this topic: Educational Partnerships
The quotes below are about this issue:
Other curricular changes include more manufacturer-specific skills and certifications, general continuing education courses, and professional development related to new technology for instructors.
| "You can't hardly expect the schools to provide all the electronics for all the different makes and models. We're asking to give us better technicians, but on the other hand, they can't teach them. There's too many variables. So there needs to be a partnership. Toyota used to have the T10 program, which I think was very successful. Toyota provided the schools with Toyota-specific training. So those things need to be tested." | Central |
| "So they need the manufacturers to also step up with the educators and help provide model-specific training because they do have just the very basics." | Central |
| "But I'd love to see a factory-specific type training for Toyota, Chrysler, or whatever it is, even a heavy truck for those folks as well." | Central |
| "There may be a need to focus more on two different levels of technicians...two different career paths. The product quality is so much better that routine repairs are less and less, and you might need somebody that's semi-skilled for those. And then you need the really smart, skilled technician that can diagnose the computer system and figure out what's going on. We may have somebody that doesn't have aptitude to become a high-level technician, but yet he can service cars, and do a good job of inspections and do things right for us, but he's never going to plateau to [the higher level]. Dealerships probably have always had that where we've always usually just gone with the best guy. Now, it's got to where we go, okay, we need an A Tech, a B Tech, a C Tech, we need two As, two Cs and then one D." | Metro |
| "One comment specific to the higher education: don't overload the instructors at the college level. Some of them really need to evolve and develop themselves so they can set a good example for the students, and some do a wonderful job. Most do a wonderful job, but as an educational institution, you know, taking a hard look and making sure those instructors are up to the level they should be is important." | Metro |
| "Q: So it would help you out if people would have that certification coming in? A: Definitely. Q: And then you'd look at hiring them over someone else, possibly? If they had that certification? A: Oh, definitely. [But] it'd be difficult for any school to prepare a particular student for a particular brand." |
Northwest |
| "I think [problem solving] can be taught. Unfortunately, the people at the top have to understand how it works. Teachers have to be researching this all the time. Theory is great. We can't fix cars without theory." | Northwest |
| "So we're seeing laid-off workers coming in wanting to go into new careers, but I think we need to come together as partners to set up that pipeline it. A truck driver is [a high] demand occupation in South-Central Minnesota and yet we have to send our people to, you know, Dakota County or St. Cloud or Wisconsin to get truck driver training. And then how do we continue that career pathway to get them that experience, because they need that two years? So, we need to all come together as partners and brainstorm and set up that career pathway..." | Southwest |