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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing
They are talking about this topic: Workforce Trends & Challenges
The quotes below are about this issue:
Overall, many employers find it difficult to attract quality entry-level applicants; this is particularly true in the areas of welding/fabrication, system automation technology, and machine technology.
| "Welding is one of our needs, very much." | Central |
| "Welding is what we need, too." | Central |
| "I have talked to smaller companies that have less than 50 employees. And, over the last year or year-and-a-half, they can't find anybody to hire—not temp-wise and not out of the school. There's also a lot of pond-jumping—moving from job to job. That's starting to happen. We're starting to see that with increased wages." | Central |
| "You would love to hire people with experience, but the companies that we're talking to are willing to—with CNC and with welding—are looking for people in school right now in the feeder programs. And would be more than happy to take people right out of school if they could get them." | Central |
| "We can't find anybody. We go through a temp agency and the skills are varied, but they are never very high. In 2008 and 2009, we were getting some good people as some places were laying-off. But, now, I've got people that you show them how to take something apart, and they will scrap a hundred parts before we end up going back and looking at them thinking that they just don't have the function, the abilities, the fundamentals, at all. The best we do is through word-of-mouth. And we see old friends from other companies, and they've got the same problem." | Central |
| "In fabricating, it's really tough for us to find somebody that understands what they're doing. It's hard to even find an instructor that knows about it." | Central |
| "The problem is that we can't find as many people with an educational background. You don't know what to do. It's too big of a gap to cover. And there was an article about a company. The person interviewed said that they were looking for talented people and they reviewed over 500 applications, interviewed 100, hired 25, and then six months later there were only12 guys." | Central |
| "We have employers who have already put up the white flag to surrender. That really bothers me. And they're right in this neighborhood, by the way, they're not so far away. There is a great company that provides us with parts, and we can count on them for quality, for delivery, and for cost. So, it's a beautiful relationship. And we get a letter from them saying that they have to cut back on a part that they supply to us because they can't find people to do it. And that the people they hired recently, broke their machines. So, basically, this company is telling us that they can't take our money anymore. They're saying, 'We have to give up this business.' That just scares us. And we say, 'Please, please, please, let's work together to find a way to continue to do this, because you're too good and important to us as a partner company. We want to give you money. Take our money. We want you to survive.' And they're saying, 'We have to let that go.' That bothers me." | Central |