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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:
Employers need new hires that possess strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills; these skills are needed in order for employees to fulfill their role within the manufacturing process and to be able to quickly adapt to new technology.
| "As I think about what our needs are, for the most part, we're preparing machinists off of a tech school program. So, they've got the basic technical skills, and we haven't really found a lot of gap there—other than maybe some lean manufacturing training. But we're also looking for them to have analytical skills, to be able to communicate, to be able to work as a team member, and to be able to make decisions right at the machine. We're not necessarily finding a lot of those skills now with the programs they're coming from." | Metro |
| "Talking about problem-solving skills, a lot of times you do get people that understand how to run a piece of equipment, but then—how to fix a problem? That really is the issue. At least have a means of problem-solving, a thought pattern of problem-solving. And, typically, even the trained ones, they end up coming back as soon as something goes wrong. They go to the next person up, the next person up, and the next person up to finally get resolution—where most things could just be fixed right on the floor, if they just had that concept of problem-solving." | Metro |
| "You've got to keep being productive, keep moving along. You can't just stop and let somebody else solve the problem for you. It's just part of it." | Metro |