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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing
They are talking about this topic: Workforce Trends & Challenges
The quotes below are about this issue:
As in other industries, leaders in the manufacturing industry are concerned about a high percentage of the workforce retiring over the next decade; this is particularly true as they continue to struggle to fill entry-level positions.
| "Within the next five years, 40 percent of our workforce is going to be retiring. That equates to almost 500 positions." | Northeast |
| "We've done quite a bit of extensive research on workforce demographics. We've been going out and identifying who we have and what they do. So, for every job that we have on the property, by classification, we've identified from zero to four years out and from four to ten, who potentially could be leaving. And we are very proactive at our company. Even when we don't have jobs, we are interviewing and we are recruiting. There are 20 major engineering schools across the country that we actively recruit at. We're on the campus all the time. We try to get to the Northeast Higher Education District schools, to find out who the talented students are. We're in there helping with trainings, providing guest lecturers, etcetera. The key is to be proactive—to identify where the deficiencies may be in the future—and have those people lined up before the brain drain goes out the door." | Northeast |