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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing
They are talking about this topic: Experience & Credentials
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers provide a great deal of on-the-job training to new hires. Even new hires who have graduated with a certificate or a degree must be trained on the specific equipment used by that particular facility.
| "Even with trained engineering staff that we bring in from college, it's like, 'Great, you've learned something that is ten years old. That is not relevant.' With these programs these days, sometimes it's better to get the kid straight out of high school than it is to get someone with four years of education, so that you can train them on relevant things and in your way." | Southeast |
| "We find that a lot with people coming in from the professional ranks—they have three, five, or seven years of experience—what we do specifically, and I'll have to go through remedial skills training in that profession.' So, even though people have experience, they don't necessarily have relevant experience when they walk in the door, which is interesting, to think you've been paying for somebody with five years of experience, but they've needed to start at the ground level with what you're trying to do." | Southeast |
| "We're looking for people that have an interest in manufacturing. Even if we hire somebody out of a two-year program at a technical college, if they're going to build dies and do things like that, it takes another four or five years in the shop to learn those skills. They don't get those skills in the tech college. All they get is CNC operating and [?] so now, it takes even longer to train them." | Southeast |
| "Once we've hired a person, we do on-the-job training. And the time it takes to get them up to speed depends on the skill set they currently have, their mechanical aptitude, and those kinds of things. Some catch on pretty quickly, and some don't. You can really size them up pretty quickly and—one of the things that we want is for everyone to have seven to eight core competencies—and you can pick up quickly that maybe that guy and that gal get it, and we're going to teach those particular employees these core competencies. This other employee can probably maintain three or four competencies, and then you work with the ones that you know can really move forward. The ones that can't, you just live with it." | Southeast |