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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:
Location plays a significant role in employers' hiring practices as well as their ability to attract and retain the necessary workforce. Several employers say that they prefer to hire local workers since they are more likely to stay long term; however, it is often difficult to attract those with specialized knowledge to rural areas, particularly when specialized training programs are not located in the area.
| "So we've had [new hires] from rural western Minnesota. But they have come from these institutions. Q: So they come here for school and then they stay here? A: Definitely depends on whether they grew up with, either corn fields or concrete." |
Central |
| "We always see the younger generation coming in much more advanced than other generations. Our issue obviously is there is no parts course in the state of Minnesota, so we don't have that to draw from. We also have 14 machine shops so we do utilize the machine shop course for automotive. The only issue is that there's one course remaining left in Minnesota and they specialize in performance, which is probably only 10 percent of our business. So we're real limited on what we can draw from the system." | Central |
| "We've tried some people who were from the [college] program in the Twin Cities. But when they got done with their training, they went to work in their home town and not here. So we don't have a local guy here that wants to go to training for it..." | Central |
| "In our case we seem to have a lot of people from western Minnesota. They seem to migrate to either Ridgewater or St. Cloud. They don't want to go to a big city." | Central |