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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Transportation
They are talking about this topic: Educational Partnerships
The quotes below are about this issue:
Many request increased efforts in recruiting students into the automotive repair and commercial trucking industries, mostly at the K-12 level, as well as to recruit students with greater aptitudes for IT work (for technician positions). This was often related to the above-mentioned need to promote a more positive image of automotive careers and the variety of skills, both mechanical and technological, to succeed in the industry. Several respondents are already involved in K-12 partnerships in educating students about the industry.
| "We need support. The programs are necessary. About two or three weeks ago we hosted a Skills USA contest at our school, and we had 44 contestants participate from around the state in auto body and collision. Those are some of the best in the state from all the schools around the state. There's a winner who will go to Kansas City on the national level so on and so forth. We had a lot of public participation and it was very positive." | Southwest |
| "[We are] in a rural area and we have to work to recruit new students...how do we get those business people reaching into the high schools, and maybe even younger, and getting that spark of interest going?" | Southwest |
| "How do you identify future prospects? I always thought it was interesting how the Geek Squad got their employees. They rented a theater in London and showed sci-fi movies and the people that came were the type of people that wanted to work for them. They said it was cheaper than being on Monster.com or any of those. Similar, Northern Minnesota did it, a lot of companies advertise in Field and Stream, and in snowmobiler or rifle magazines, all these sports and field magazines for their professionals because those are people that want what's there." | Southwest |
| "[T]he pay is a lot better than maybe four years as a lab technician. It's a great opportunity. We just started recruiting at the eighth grade level trying to get into the schools, maybe job shadowing and things like that, and I've talked to a lot of parents over the years." | Southwest |
| "Nobody wants to be a truck driver anymore, you know. Most people get into it now, especially over the last couple of years, because of all these layoffs and so forth." | Southwest |