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The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing

They are talking about this topic: Educational Partnerships

 

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Many businesses are already collaborating with MnSCU; for instance, some business representatives are active on advisory boards and in associations. Employers emphasize the importance of continuing these collaborations, enhancing communication, and partnering more frequently to develop curriculum and other solutions.

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"That's something I'm very interested in—joining partnerships and understanding the different programs. And I think we could have a very powerful local strategy on how we improve and enhance the workers that we already have, and then to also have some kind of curriculum that we can hand-off to the local schools.

Question: To help develop them?

Employer: So that when we receive the workforce, we're not starting from zero."		 Southeast
"The kinds of things that are going to impact the bottom-line are just what you mentioned: the Kaizen, the Lean Six, the Lean Principal—those kinds of things. And I don't know that MnSCU or higher education can effectively teach those because they're not dealing with the stuff that we deal with every day. And when you talk about partnering up, nothing would be more awesome than for MnSCU to send people to participate in one of our events so that they learn how we do it.

Question: So, more cooperation?

Employer: Yes. Those are the kinds of skills that are going to produce a bottom-line impact and make people more valuable on our force."		 Southeast
"Yes. Promoting together, working together. Quit fighting each other for the available workforce. That's what we're trying to promote in the southeastern area of Minnesota—to start working together as a community for what we all need because it's going to affect all of us long-term. If we don't start working together as a group, none of us are going to experience the kind of growth that we have the opportunity to experience in this current market." Southeast
"It's the regions that figure this out. If you wait for someone to figure this out for you, it will never happen. So, if you think about the healthcare industry—you remember that several years ago there were no nurses, no nurses, no nurses. But we're good on nurses now, for the most part. I think it's regions that come together and figure this out for their own region as opposed to waiting for the state or DEED or someone else to do it for you." Southeast
"MnSCU's not going to ride in on some horse and solve this. That ain't going to happen. Although I think they would be great partners moving forward and we need them. And I don't know what goes on at the National Association of Manufacturers, but I'd take a look at that, too. I agree that we have to look at these issues locally." Southeast
"Come to the table and discuss these issues because that's where we're going to keep figuring this out. All of us, regionally or locally, need to address these issues because I think it's very clear that there's not a silver bullet coming from somewhere else to save us. There are 600,000 unfilled manufacturing jobs in this country today. So, this is not necessarily unique to us. And there's a tremendous amount of competition. Anyway, come to the table as you hear about these things, so we can look at our own region and decide what we're going to do to drive people into these jobs." Southeast
"I think that in businesses, we get tied up with our everyday jobs, so I encourage more of an ongoing conversation with schools. And I encourage you to come back and challenge us because, as companies, we do have resources, we do have people. And maybe it should be more of a partnership in a continuing conversation, rather than just a periodic conversation with regard to these types of issues. Challenge us. Ask us, 'How can we get our students into your company to actually talk to the people who work there and have experience there?' And invite people from our company into your classroom. I think that would open up a lot of doors, and it would help us to have a more continuous conversation." Southeast