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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing
They are talking about this topic: Occupation-Specific Skills
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers emphasize the need for new hires that have strong mathematical abilities; levels of skill needed vary by position, but range from algebra to trigonometry. Many employers need to send new employees to remedial math courses. Similarly, although mentioned less frequently, some employers feel that reading and writing skills are lacking in new hires as well.
| "I would say 'able' is a big portion of it, whether they don't read or write English and if can't understand English—we're getting a very diverse crew." | Southeast |
| "We always require math and welding blueprint testing as they come in. They have to pass with 80 percent. If they don't, then we sit down with them in a little training session and go over that. For the most part, they do pass, but for the particular group that is under that percentage, we have to re-teach those math skills and blueprint skills. We do that internally." | Southeast |
| "I think, getting back to the basic English and basic writing skills—it's really having writing skills, so that you can write an articulate letter. I think we're losing a lot of basic communication skills that, quite frankly, take a little more time and take a little more thinking. They can be very technical." | Southeast |