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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:
Employers need new hires that have a variety of occupation-specific and soft skills; without these skills, new hires are unlikely to advance.
| "I've been in manufacturing engineering for over 30 years, and what I've seen is that my two-year degree people can only get to a certain level because they don't have soft skills. So, I could go to [MnSCU college] and pick up a manufacturer engineer. They've got all those soft skills. They can do project management. They can plan safe innovative thinking and everything else, but they don't know the technical side. They've only skimmed it in school. And they don't know how to square block. They don't know how to make a lathe tool out of a high speed steel block like I learned when I was maybe in middle school. So, what we did at our company, which was good, is that anybody who started—and they all had their two-year degrees on the floor—if anybody jumped into a four-year degree, we'd bring them in the office and say, 'Good!' That was their chance for promotion, getting that four-year degree. But you couldn't get that two-year degree to advance. They needed the soft skills. They just don't have them." | Central |