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The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing

They are talking about this topic: Current Continuing Education

 

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Employers use a variety of modalities for incumbent training. The majority use vendors or outside consultants for on-site training; others use online tools. A fair number of organizations have worked with local technical schools and community colleges to develop customized certificate programs that are taught on-site.

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"To speak to the issue of specializing and customizing some of the training, I was part of the group that focused on [MnSCU college's] re-do of their machine technology in advanced aviation. It was focused on the aviation industry in this region. And it included more quality control, programming, and set-up of large production runs versus job shop. But that's available to anyone that has sufficient demand of numbers for the customized training—that they can focus on one company to develop a program to serve the needs of your employees. So, I think if there's enough numbers they're certainly open to listening, to including your needs in their training programs. And, too, you could look at a customized training program specifically for your company or your industry—if participants would be prepared when they completed the training." Northeast
"You had that at the beginning of the recession—we had customized training. Trainers came to our facility on multiple shifts to train in skill sets that we needed. And when some of those students were laid off because of the recession, they continued to go to the training. So, they're eager to participate in upgrading their skills even when they don't have a job." Northeast
"Question: In terms of assessment testing, it seems a lot of employers do that to get a baseline to see where basic skills—like math skills—are. And it sounds like you do some assessment testing. So, for math, do you send them to a higher education institution for remedial math or do you handle that internally?

Employer: We actually use the workforce education for that. They have some particularly good testing assessments that can do some of that for us."		 Northeast
"When 'Company X' opened, I conducted the customized training for the company through the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board (IRRRB) and [MnSCU college]. And it was a great program because we trained all their new hires. We continue to do training, a form of basic training, through customized training, utilizing that and it's worked out real well. We also have very open communications. We pair our employees with others to try to help build morale and everything, but there are still some issues of—and I'll go back to the previous topic—customized training to improve our employees." Northeast
"We have a team of technical communicators at our organization and we use them—not only to work with our customers, but also to train our technicians. This includes the new ones and it includes the ones that we've had around a while as well. So, we have our own internal structure." Northeast
"We actually have an online company tool. There are more than 700 courses in a variety of categories, and all of our employees have an ID to get into the system. Typically, they take about 35 to 45 minutes per session and then, following that, there's a test and you're required to reach a 70 percentile. Once you do that, it gets logged into your training record. So, there's a lot of that available. On our management end, you're required to complete 'X' number of those credits every year.

When it comes to hazardous materials and things like that, they have to use that system for training. A lot of the topics cover the environmental type things and safety. So, all of our employees are trained on that. And, in the mining industry, we use the service industry a lot to provide the training for the equipment we have on-property, as well as to customize training at the colleges. We've actually trained up people on the payroll, and we call it Train the Trainer. They go to customized trainer training. They become the trainer, and then they can do a lot of the internal training throughout the year, on property."		 Northeast
"There are two other really good online training pieces that are helpful to us. One is, if you haven't looked at it, you should look at it, it's Tooling U. It offers a number of online courses, including quality, engaging, CNC, safety, etcetera. What it does—it gives a very good opportunity to train you and then it does a brief post-test. But, once again, you really need to follow that up with allocation. It's one thing to see how something is done, how will the machiner engage, but to apply it is mission critical. Another one that we're just now getting involved with—our local college is using it, so they told us about it—is Amatrol. They offer curriculum and allocation and online training." Northeast