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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Transportation
They are talking about this topic: Needs & Challenges in Continuing Education
The quotes below are about this issue:
Several employers indicate a need for more continuing educational opportunities in various specialized areas, such as welding, new emissions policies for the commercial trucking industry and the effects of social media and quality customer service.
| "Well, I guess, the term is, it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. A lot of them don't want to absorb that new knowledge. They don't have that motivational drive to learn the new technology. And those are the ones that just kind of?when you're in the industry for a long time and you're successful at it, you get worn out quick." | Northwest |
| "New hires are pretty close to being set to start out with...but there's still further training that goes on. And if the state can offer some sort of way at their colleges or whatever, that'd be great." | Northwest |
| "I got the school to train for a multiple-day thing...that's very valuable. That's where your real growth comes in for your technicians. And so maybe through the schools...maybe we can bring some of those aftermarket specialists in to teach little seminars within the units to help get these way specialized types of training...and net worth to the employee. In aftermarket repair there's all kinds of conventions. Whether it's in the transmission business, which is [a training institute], and they have an under-car show through [another training institute], all these people have training that is just phenomenal. It puts tools into these people's [hands]...and the students and the young techs...[things] that they can't get anywhere else, and gives them ideas to make them move forward." | Northwest |
| "The problem is our location. It's hard to get anyone to fly to Fargo. You can get them to fly to Minneapolis to do a training. We go to Minneapolis a lot to do the training. We can drive, and they drive from seven states to Minneapolis when we go there. But it's certainly a doable thing. How much easier does it get, if you can get someone to fly to Fargo and talk to you? It has to be training on fixing, not training on what's coming out today that you're not going to see for five years." | Northwest |
| "You're always shorthanded, because somebody's always training someplace." | Northwest |
| "You try to run the business, but training is a huge expense. But if you're going to want to keep the people that you have with you, it's a requirement." | Northwest |