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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 need new hires that have a variety of occupation-specific and soft skills; without these skills, new hires are unlikely to advance.
| "We only have CNCs and our manual equipment, and that's the thing, if you can just change parts on a CNC that's one thing, but to be able to take a drawing, program it, set it up, run it, and inspect it, that's useful." | Northeast |
| "We hire driller helpers, and then it is on-the-job training. And, while you may have good skills as a driller helper and you may understand the drill, to advance to a driller, the soft skills come into play. Being a team leader and being able to stretch goals and being versatile. And sometimes people are demoted because those skills aren't there." | Northeast |