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  • Manufacturers, Focus on Recovery and Grooming the Workforce for 2021

    • December 9, 2020
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business, Management
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    A woman holding a mop or broom wearing safety gear and a medical face mask. Manufacturers should focus on grooming their workforce in 2021.

    I recently read an article in the Hartford (Connecticut) Business Journal (as one does, when you live in Central Texas) recommending that manufacturers should focus on recovery, technology, and grooming the workforce in 2021. While the numbers are specific to Connecticut, they represent a larger trend in the United States. Their big concern in January

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  • Making a Case for Technology Skill Schools

    • March 13, 2019
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Management, Manufacturing
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    Airmen and local nationals practice tungsten inert gas and oxyacetylene welding June 4 at Kadena Air Base, Japan. This is a type of trade skill school for members of the military.

    In Indiana, there’s a rather unusual vocational school called Driver Solutions, a truck driving school where students learn how to properly drive a tractor-trailer rig in three weeks. Students who qualify, and can pass the different drug and health tests, will not only get a job immediately after they graduate, their schooling is paid for.

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