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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing
They are talking about this topic: General Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Interpersonal communication and teamwork are frequently cited as crucial skills for new hires; these skills are often lacking.
| "What we're seeing, too, is that perhaps people may be technically very good on with the machines, but they are needier in the soft skills area." | Metro |
| "We're preparing machinists from a tech school program. They've got the basic technical skills, so we haven't really found a lot of gap there—other than maybe some lean manufacturing training—but we're looking for them to have other skills: analytical skills, being able to communicate, being able to work as a team member, being able to make decisions about the machine. We're not necessarily finding a lot of candidates with those skills coming from the programs." | Metro |