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The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing

They are talking about this topic: Needs & Challenges in Continuing Education

 

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Employers are interested in more extensive partnering with MnSCU on incumbent training programs. They are in need of training and certificate programs that are customized, on-site, and flexible. Ideally, this type of training could be offered without interrupting the production process.

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"Employer 1: Your two-year grads, you've got to get them some continuing education for the project management skills and all the other soft skills that they're not getting in school.

Employer 2: Yeah. That's a good point."		 Central
"I think the biggest issue is motivating them to want to get more training and education. We'll support it, but they're like, 'Well, I've already got this job. But, yeah, I want to do better and everything.' Well, it's like, 'Are you willing to make a commitment of another five, six hours a week of your own time to develop your skills?'

Question: When you said you support it, what does your company do?

Employer: You try to negotiate. If they say that they'd really like to take a course, we'll figure out how to give them time off to do that. But, it's like it starts to mess with their personal life, and so I don't know that they really want to invest in the classes—and what I'm saying is for technicians. The people that are in engineering have got four years or more of advanced education, and most of those people understand about career development. For the majority of them, they'll make that investment to move along."		 Central
"For our folks, even math classes would be a big help. Sometimes, if you're talking to a technician and somebody pulls out some numbers that are fractions—one day, when this happened—a technician said to me, 'No, I was never very good with fractions.'" Central