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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing
They are talking about this topic: General Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers need new hires that possess strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills; these skills are needed in order for employees to fulfill their role within the manufacturing process and to be able to quickly adapt to new technology.
| "So, in college and with these training programs—fine, you got the 'A'—but it seems that the vast majority is studying hard to get the 'A,' but they're not learning how to learn. They're not creative problem-solvers on the job. They have to be micro-managed. In our company, you've got to be a Swiss Army knife. We're going to put you on something; you figure it out. We'll give you some parameters, but you have to be a problem-solver. How much of that is happening in the education process with these community colleges?" | Southeast |
| "I think there's danger in putting too much focus on particular things though. You want someone to be the guy to put the screw in the back of the whatever—that's boring. You got to cross-train people on the job, and make them more valuable to your company. The same thing on overly-focusing on education, you're only trained to do this and you're not going to—some of the best ideas come from the most divergent things that you can think of, you know? I think there's a danger in saying that you should just train in one particular area and that's it. That's one thing a college education is good for—to get exposed to a lot of different ideas that they can then bring in, and be a problem-solver on the job." | Southeast |