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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing
They are talking about this topic: Current Continuing Education
The quotes below are about this issue:
Employers use a variety of modalities for incumbent training. The majority use vendors or outside consultants for on-site training; others use online tools. A fair number of organizations have worked with local technical schools and community colleges to develop customized certificate programs that are taught on-site.
| "The education system helps us, so everything is internal training. It's all on the job. It's all internal." | Southeast |
| "They're all selling stuff. They'll just come in, like our cutting tool people come in, and do seminars on tool life and different things like that. Machinery people will come in and do training with my engineers, but they're not coming in and training my shop employees. We don't have the time or the money for that because that's not free." | Southeast |
| "We send our mechanics to schooling, and then we do a week-long canning school. They have them all across the country, and they're typically down at universities. And then we also have vendors. I would say it's a Multi-Vac machine and they have a school, you know, and we'll send them there for a couple of days or whatever to learn more about the equipment that we use. So, yeah, we do invest in our current employees by sending them off to school." | Southeast |
| "It's mostly direct contract with vendors. You wouldn't send them to [MnSCU college] for something necessarily." | Southeast |
| "We would send them to training at [a MnSCU college] if they showed interest. I don't think that's something we would suggest. Well, maybe in their situation, maybe we could send them to a welding course at CTC because we really need welders. We do have tuition reimbursement programs." | Southeast |
| "A few years ago we partnered with [MnSCU college]. And, we actually started two programs. One where the instructors come to our campus to teach the general education associate's degree program, and then another one specifically for supervisor management. It all takes place after shift hours, but they do still come on-site. We've got enough team members through at least the rest of this year, and then we'll have to recruit to see if there's going to be more people interested internally. And most of that is tuition reimbursement." | Southeast |
| "So you encourage people to—this is like a step up. They'll take these classes, and then they'll have additional responsibility." | Southeast |
| "We bring in leadership training for people to accept roles—manufacturing roles of higher pay and supervision." | Southeast |
| "We have continuous improvement. We get workers together and we work on problem-solving skills, and we do that internally. And the solution/benefits ends two points directed to improvement and a specific activity. You learn a skill, if you will, and problem-solving that is related to an issue in the business, and that's where we wind up training. We're working on getting a hundred people involved in the process this year." | Southeast |
| "We do a lot of stuff in-house, as far as the variety of work that they're working on. And then we've brought in outside consultants." | Southeast |