Tag: Machining Career
We have been working on the skills gap issue for a couple of years.
This infographic from MSN careers shows that the issue of finding skilled workers is a global, not just U.S. and Canada problem.
Precision Machining openings are begging across the country- and were even at the peak of the 2009 Recession. Demographics are going to make finding skilled machinists an even more urgent management imperative.
High schools aren’t graduating people with skills that can add value in your shop.
Lorain County Community College is!
From my encounters in retail with recent graduates, just making change without a cash register is a difficult task.
Let alone using the Pythagorean Theorem to control geometry, runout, and cosine error.
Four year college graduates lack the skills we need in our shops more often than not.
Yet we have openings for people with skills.
Last night, 26 Northern Ohio Chapter members of the PMPA attended an open house of the advanced manufacturing labs at Lorain County Community College:
Our attendees were impressed with the equipment; they were quite impressed by the instructors.
They were delighted to sense the confidence, understanding, and capability shown by the students at work in the labs.
We may not know where the entire skilled workforce for our precision industry will come from, but we know some local programs where we can find some skilled technicians.
Ryan at Change The Perception discovered this CNN video about Machining.
Here’s the Video.
Ryan, thanks for sharing this video about the New Blue Collar. About how we make a difference by making things.
Thanks for your work to help our industry Change the Perception.
And a tip of the hat to CNN Edition for this outstanding video.
