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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Transportation
They are talking about this topic: Workforce Trends & Challenges
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers believe that the younger generation has less experience with (and therefore perhaps less interest in) auto mechanics from an early age. Young people are now less likely to have grown up working on cars with their parents, and many automotive programs have been cut from high schools.
| "The people that are in the 40-year-old age bracket now are work-hard people, they've worked on cars themselves, enjoyed cars, lived and breathed them. And that is changing. Now it's video games. It's a different world out there. It really is." | Northwest |
| "So I always wonder about kids growing up...like my aged kids, there's a good likelihood that a lot of these guys in the industry, their parents were in the vehicles and they had worked on them themselves, and they had muscle cars and fun things, and they have a passion for automobiles because of that. And I think it's going to become more difficult to find someone who grows up with a deep understanding of automobiles, other than mom took them around in the minivan when they were little. You know what I mean? The parents aren't going to know about the vehicles. And so they're probably not going to have a passion for cars." | Northwest |
| "You need that additional [automotive] training right from high school. They're not getting that in high school." | Northwest |