By Doug Backinger, Caster Concepts
The US manufacturing sector has a labor issue: there are too few workers to meet the growing demand for manufacturing jobs across the country.
Reshoring efforts, a wave of Boomer retirements, and advancements requiring new skill sets have coalesced to create labor shortages throughout the manufacturing sector, prompting 65 percent of manufactuers to say that attracting and retaining talent is their primary business challenge.
Over the next decade, US manufacturers are projected to create 3.8 million jobs. However, it’s expected that only half of these positions will be filled, as the difficulty in attracting and retaining talent remains the top concern for many in the industry.
To address this issue,we must focus on how to develop talent in the workplace. By bolstering the country’s small towns and rural communities by deploying a local approach to US manufacturing. This approach simultaneously supports individuals and communities while helping the manufacturing sector attract and retain the talent it needs to thrive.
Developing talent in the workplace is crucial to solving the labor shortage, driving both local economies and national manufacturing growth.
Here are four best practices for cultivating manufacturing talent from the inside out.
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