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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing
They are talking about this topic: Needs & Challenges in Continuing Education
The quotes below are about this issue:
The occupation-specific skills in which employers frequently train incumbents include computer skills, math and reading skills, electronic and automated controls, safety awareness, backing technology, mold builders, and welding.
| "Employer 1: We were lucky enough to develop a customized training program, so we do have basic math that we can teach people here if we need to do that. So, we do have some customized training. Employer 2: And if we hire someone that has the skills, shows up for work, and has potential—well, if we need to teach them basic math, then we teach them basic math." |
Central |
| "A large number of our associates are lacking in computer skills. We deal a lot with computers. Everything from things as simple as starting up the computer, and signing on as a user, things like that. And I'm talking about some of the longer-term people, the people who've been here for 30-plus years. They don't have the computer skills that someone's six-year-old kid might have. This is particularly true of the assemblers." | 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 |