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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Transportation
They are talking about this topic: Workforce Trends & Challenges
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers describe various hiring practices, including higher scrutiny of applicants during the interview process. Employers also express a willingness to promote and sponsor the education of promising new employees.
| "[Another employer] and I have been interviewing for some diesel technology positions. [The other employer] is service tech manager, and as we're going through we're finding really kind of two completely people. We're getting some applicants...they have a good experience level. They have a tech college degree, they have a good experience level, and they definitely know what they want to get paid. Then we have some other folks that we throw away their application and we don't respond. We don't have no idea why they applied for the job." | Central |
| "Hiring and training in-house has been our focus. That's a process and it's so somebody can kind of hit the ground running?right now in my store, my best diesel technician came from that. He was a graduate of [a college] and started in my quick lane and moved on up. And he's been fantastic. But those people are few and far between. He's a specialist." | Central |