Posted on 02/09/2012 10:31:52 PM PST by barmag25
16,500.
That’s the number of skilled craft job opportunities expected to open in Georgia over the next year. The number of people trained to fill them? Not nearly enough, according to officials with the Governor’s Office of Workforce Development promoting the Go Build Georgia program.
The program, designed to encourage more people to learn skilled trades, made the first of 13 stops across the state this week at the Northwest Georgia College and Career Academy, formerly the Whitfield Career Academy. Educators, business representatives and others from 14 Northwest Georgia counties attended.
“We know by 2016 we will be in a crisis situation,” said Tricia Pridemore, executive director of the Office of Workforce Development. “For every four that retire, we are producing one replacement.”
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Joe Yarbrough, Mohawk Industries vice president of operations, said society has “created an environment where it’s deemed to be not only undesirable but sometimes shameful” to have a blue collar job.
“That’s wrong,” he said. “What’s really sad though is at my company, we could fill probably 30, 40 or 50 skilled jobs where we can’t find the applicants with the needed skill sets.”
true and sad.
I just tried Mohawk’s link for jobs....doesn’t work.....maybe the first hire is an IT guy.
Asking me to overlook a simple safety violation would be asking me to compromise my entire attitude toward the value of your life.
Depends on what they’re willing to pay; if they’re offering “wetback pay” they shouldn’t be surprised nobody shows up. I don’t buy this crap that Americans won’t work blue-collar jobs; I think they don’t want to do them at minimum wage.
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