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Overall, many employers find it difficult to attract quality entry-level applicants; this is particularly true in the areas of welding/fabrication, system automation technology, and machine technology.

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"We're struggling with finding people with automation skills right now. We've got robotic welders, for example, and we've got to train more." Southeast
"We've hiring for a couple jobs. And I either get people from the retired community or people from the older generation that had a job, maybe in some other field, and got laid off. So, now they're looking for another job, but they don't really have the skills we need. And some are looking for very short-term employment because they don't want to work very long. Or we get people from the younger generation, and they don't really want to work. I mean, I offered two of them jobs last week, and both of them said they were going to have to think about if they really wanted to come to work." Southeast
"The biggest issue we have is finding welders. We find most of the other positions take a little while to fill, but it's difficult to find welders. So, we're training and coaxing people to become welders." Southeast
"Question: Okay, so one of the things that we've heard is that people will apply for welding because they're a backyard welder—maybe they can weld a bumper on a car. Are you taking those kinds of individuals and training them? Or is that not what you need?

Employer 1: That's not what we need, but that's what we find. And, in some cases, we're taking them and training them, but a lot of times they wind up not making it. So, you get a person who says, 'Okay, I'm going to try it.' They're pretty desperate, and we have a high fall-out rate with those kinds of folks. The transitions are pretty dramatic to become the kind of welder that we need."		 Southeast