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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing
They are talking about this topic: General Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers feel professionalism is lacking in new hires, and they cite generational differences in work ethic. Many employers express concern about issues related to attendance, quality of work, and discipline. They also have difficulty finding employees who are willing to work second and third shifts.
| "It's helping the entry-level high school or college student understand that this is a career versus a job. So many of them are job-jumpers early on, and we spend a lot of our time just teaching them that it's a career and what they could do." | Central |
| "Our company sees less skilled people coming in the door, so we have to do a lot more work on training. Some of that, I believe, should start when they're kids. People don't want to do this type of work anymore. And they lack work ethics. That's a lot of it, to me, just work ethics, period." | Central |
| "I believe, they're getting what they need at school, but the work ethic isn't there. They come in, they try it out, and they just don't want to do it. Maybe the managers and the people running these companies need to do a lot more in the way of making the jobs more lucrative for these children. You know, give them something to look forward to more. I think we've lost some of that." | Central |
| "Yes. I want workers to be on time and stay all day. And then, on the second day, do the same thing again." | Central |
| "Employer 1: Most of the younger engineers still struggle with thinking this is an early retirement program. Employer 2: And with the technicians and people like that, it's just a hit or miss thing. It's just a zoo." |
Central |
| "In our case, if you took five qualified people in terms of skills, two or three would be dropped for not being able to pass the drug test or not having the soft skills to get along with people. Or, as others have mentioned here, things like an ability to show up for work on time—that whole side of a person, which we can't control. We can't fix it, so these people head on down the road. And it's a real shame because they're someone who's gone to school and can demonstrate all of these other skills. But they're not the kind of person that you would want to hire." | Central |
| "I would echo what the other respondent said. We're maybe on the south side of 50 percent in terms of attrition. I think people, during the interview process, understand it when we stress the importance of getting to work on time, the drug-free issue, and other issues. But it's really about the ability of that person to internalize that and to say, 'Okay, I need to behave in this way, and that will allow me to stay employed.' That's where the breakdown occurs. Some of the people, I'm assuming, that don't make the cut, if you ask them why they don't have a job anymore, some of them wouldn't be able to tell you, 'I wasn't able to get to work on time,' or 'I wasn't able to get to work at all.' There's always an excuse. And this is after you think you've hired talented people." | Central |
| "One other thing that is also coming into play is the second and third shifts—the unwillingness in a competitive marketplace to work the second and third shift." | Central |
| "It seems like there's a small population of people who really want to work the second shift, and those people are hard to find because they get snatched up by other places. You see a higher rate of loss on the second shift, too. Someone works for a week, and then figures out that the second shift isn't their favorite thing to do anymore." | Central |