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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Transportation
They are talking about this topic: Educational Partnerships
The quotes below are about this issue:
Many request increased efforts in recruiting students into the automotive repair and commercial trucking industries, mostly at the K-12 level, as well as to recruit students with greater aptitudes for IT work (for technician positions). This was often related to the above-mentioned need to promote a more positive image of automotive careers and the variety of skills, both mechanical and technological, to succeed in the industry. Several respondents are already involved in K-12 partnerships in educating students about the industry.
| "Promote it at the younger levels. Right now what we find is we have to recruit our class D drivers and train them up to the class A because I don't have the class A drivers walking in...So trying to get the younger generation to say that trucking is going to be around and it's going to be a career for the future is probably the biggest challenge right now. Somewhere down the line there's got to be a pretty solid sales pitch on why transportation is going to be here. And I think we talked about earlier that nothing gets here without a truck." | Central |
| "Well, if you look at the classification of a truck driver. It's called 'unskilled.' An unskilled classification, which is totally false. That needs to be changed. Because it is definitely a skill and it's definitely a challenge every day. If we're looking it as an unskilled classification, how is anybody going to think that's something they want to go into?" | Central |
| "[One] of the things that's saved our technician programs was that about 12 years ago, we started recruiting at the high school level trying to get them interested. And right now everybody I have everybody is 30 years of age or less." | Central |
| "And if we can have facilities and programs that attract people and promote the careers of drivers, mechanics, and technicians, [that would help]. A lot of kids nowadays just think it's a dead-end job and they don't want to do it. It's not the first choice. It's not glamorous." | Central |