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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing
They are talking about this topic: Occupation-Specific Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Respondents who represent welding and fabrication occupations say it is difficult to find qualified welders; this is due, in part, to the lack of welding programs at high schools and junior colleges. Several employers hire workers with minimal experience and then train them on-site. Employers would like to see the creation of new welding programs.
| "Welding is what we need, very much." | Central |
| "Welding is what we need, too." | Central |
| "You would love to have candidates with experience, but the companies that we're talking to are willing to—with CNC, with welding—are looking for people in school right now, people in the feeder programs that we talked about. They'd be more than happy to take people right out of school if they could get them." | Central |