skills-gap
Jennifer McNelly: It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Manufacturing
A key demographic could help close the skills gap in manufacturing: women. We need to do a better job of attracting and retaining this untapped resource.
U.S. manufacturers today face a tremendous challenge finding quality talent to stay competitive in the global economy. Over the next decade, nearly 3.5 million manufacturing jobs likely will need to be filled, and the skills gap is expected to result in 2 million of those jobs going unfilled.