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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing
They are talking about this topic: Occupation-Specific Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers emphasize the need for new hires that have strong mathematical abilities; levels of skill needed vary by position, but range from algebra to trigonometry. Many employers need to send new employees to remedial math courses. Similarly, although mentioned less frequently, some employers feel that reading and writing skills are lacking in new hires as well.
| "The soft skills are such a critical area, before you even get to the technical level. We have to have somebody that can do the basic reading and writing. Someone who can understand and follow directions. Someone who has team skills, team-working skills, ethical skills, and an understanding of ethical practices. All of those are so critical, and those are areas we constantly spend time training on." | Northeast |
| "One problem is that some folks don't perform. Secondarily, they come into our places of employment with rudimentary math skills, things like that. So, we have to turn to a batch of assessments to find out what the candidates' baseline skills are. Should we have to do that? Probably not, but the need is there." | Northeast |