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Employer Quotes
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.
| "We find that additional math—through customized training—works for us. A real common one is geometric dimensioning and tolerancing. That's another area that needs constant refreshing to keep people in tune to what's being explained on a drawing or print. So, we've used customized training in both of those areas pretty successfully, and it's an ongoing thing for us. We may do GDTs one year, and then the next year we may do some level of math, and the next year a higher level of GDT, and then a different level of math. We alternate some of that." | Northwest |
| "Internal training. We do a lot of internal training." | Northwest |
| "Question: Is there a role for the educational institutions to help ensure candidates are better prepared for these positions? Employer 1: Math, calipers, measuring equipment. Employer 2: There are some high schools with machine trades that would help us in that area, but we're pretty reliant on our own internal training. I don't really know what a two-year school could do for us in that area." |
Northwest |
| "We work with the college on some welding testing. We had some issues with quality welds on our metal framework around the mold, breaking and things like that. So, we help the college do some on-the-floor training with the welders, and we set up a welding testing program here. So, we've used the college for that and now we're working with the College of Welding. So, we've dealt with it a little bit with our CNC molds, and they're doing some testing on some of that specialized welding." | Northwest |
| "We have a continuous improvement certificate. We offer semester-based classes on-site at our company. This leads to a 16-credit certificate." | Northwest |
| "We've had on-site college programs for twelve years now, associate degrees and bachelor degrees. But, over the last few years, we've really looked at more of the certificate pieces—those kinds of programs that you can bring in. And we worked with [MnSCU college] and brought in a program last year that we developed with them. A diploma program they did in a year. They did credits to really target those areas." | Northwest |
| "We found a need for blueprint reading classes, and we didn't have the time or resources to pull that together and teach it on-site. So, we worked with a welding instructor from [MnSCU college]. And we co-developed a curriculum where he came on-site, and helped train for a couple of sessions. And we grabbed that—it was kind of 'train the trainer' as we were getting our people up to speed. And now some of our supervisors and some of our technicians do help train on-site. So, that was a collaborative effort for a need that we had, and we developed that together, and now we use that on our own." | Northwest |
| "We currently go through the Employer's Association of the Cities. I've been through several of their training groups. And if, locally, we could get that skill here, it would be a benefit to all of us." | Northwest |