More than 2.6 million workers will retire by 2025. It is projected that 2.4 millions jobs will go unfilled. This gap will mean lower production…
Read MoreBaby boomers are ready to retire, leaving behing a void of skills, learned in trade schools and practiced for a generation. How do we fill this "Middle-Skills" gap?
Read MoreManufacturing still suffers from the stereotype of a dirty environment leading to lack of enrollment in vocational programs or pursuit of trade skills. The jobs are there, the people are hard to find! As one executive said: "With the positive turn in the economy, we don’t have enough job candidates with the right skills and work ethic to fill our openings, and this is making it difficult for us to accept the orders our vendors are asking us to complete.”
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