Category Archives: Workforce Training
Manufacturers: Where Will You (And the Workforce You Need) Be in Five Years?
By Mary Ann Pacelli, Senior Consultant, The Manufacturing Advocacy & Growth Network (MAGNET) For nearly 30 years, MAGNET has been working with small- and mid-sized manufacturers here in Northeast Ohio. We help companies shore up quality, improve productivity, train their … Continue reading
Addressing the Skills Gap and Improving the Bottom Line
The skills gap in the manufacturing workforce continues to be a challenge. Employers constantly bemoan their inability to get qualified workers, educators convene employers to better understand what they are looking for and develop new programs, and job seekers experience … Continue reading
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Northeast Ohio Winner of White House Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge
September 22, 2011 (CLEVELAND) – Northeast Ohio is one of 20 regions in the country selected as a winner in the Obama administration’s $37 million Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge, a multi-agency competition to support the advancement of high-growth industry … Continue reading
Addressing the Skills Gap in NE Ohio
For the past ten years or more, we have been “warned” about the coming skills gap crisis in our country. Researchers and economists have provided data that indicate that we will have hundreds of jobs going unfilled while hundreds of … Continue reading
Obama embraces the Manufacturing Institute’s NAM-Endorsed Manufacturing Skills Certification System
On June 8, President Obama announced the goal of credentialing 500,000 community college students with skills certifications aligned to manufacturers’ hiring needs. One of the initiatives Obama believes is a pathway to reach this goal is the NAM Endorsed Manufacturing … Continue reading
President Obama highlights industry-led skills training effort
President Barack Obama visited Northern Virginia Community College on Wednesday, June 8, to spotlight the industry-led, public-private effort to create a coordinated training program to prepare workers for advanced manufacturing jobs. The effort, led by the National Association of Manufacturer’s … Continue reading
PD: Timken to open a wind turbine research center, training facility with Stark State College
Published May 23, 2011, 10:50 a.m., by Robert Schoenberger “CLEVELAND, Ohio — Canton bearing maker the Timken Co. and Stark State College plan to open a wind turbine research and development center near the Akron Canton Airport next year that will … Continue reading
NAM’s Manufacturing Institute releases “Roadmap to Education Reform for Manufacturing”
March 31, 2011, Washington, DC—The Manufacturing Institute, the non-profit affiliate of the National Association of Manufacturers, has released a comprehensive blueprint for education reform designed to develop the 21st-century talent critical to U.S. manufacturing and global competitiveness. The Roadmap to … Continue reading
Upgrade your skills, increase your options
This weekend’s article on NPR by Chris Arnold, As Manufacturing Demand Grows, So Do Jobs, reiterates what I mentioned in my February post, that employment in the manufacturing sector is picking up and will continue to rise. For example, … Continue reading
NBC Nightly News captures manufacturing need for skilled workers
NBC’s Tom Brokaw examines the need for manufacturing to acquire skilled workers to remain competitive in this feature report which aired on March 1.
