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The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Manufacturing

They are talking about this topic: Current Continuing Education

 

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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.

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"We've done custom training. Now, once again, [MnSCU college] put together a PLC class for us—and pneumatics and hydraulics classes for us. Also, you get a lot of vendors that sell you a lot of things, and they're happy to come and put on seminars for you. You've got to screen through those a little bit because they can be more of a sales presentation than anything else, but we do glean a lot of technical information from them. And another thing that we do is—it's a sharing thing we do once a month. Because we've got 650 employees, we have a lot of different pieces of equipment, and we have guys focused in different areas. Well, this month, the two guys that focus in a certain area are going to put on a seminar for everybody else, so they learn some things about this area of the plant." Southwest
"We use Universal Class which is an online group of courses. You go in, and you buy credits. So, if somebody needs to have an update—whether it's an Excel update or something else—you can go in and purchase that class. And they take it online while at work. They can work through it at their own pace." Southwest
"We're going to use company-specific training programs, which are online. It's just easy to revisit with the group and stop as you need to." Southwest
"Employer: We've done some Tooling U, although we haven't done that for a while.

Question: So, it's a class?

Employer: Yeah, but it is online. I mean, it's purchased. So, engineers can do continued education with it."		 Southwest
"I think you should look at what Tooling U has to offer because that's an online course, and it's not going to take a whole day of production out of your schedule. It may take you an hour to watch a class, but you visit one piece of something." Southwest
"I don't know if it's something that they could simply watch online and learn." Southwest
"I said the same thing—you can't teach some of these skills online. But, it's pretty amazing to see it work, too." Southwest
"Employer 1: I'd like to give a shout out to the respondent over here who helped develop a program called Fit. It's a maintenance training program; it's a certificate. 180 hours?

Employer 2: Oh, it's more than that.

Employer 1: It's about a year, nine months to a year. And 'Company X' helped build it. We've spent a lot of time working on it. It's a wonderful program, and if I could get 30 people into that Fit class every year, I'd interview every single one of them. Most of my current maintenance technicians have gone through it, and the ones that have are my best maintenance technicians."		 Southwest