Via Charleston Gazette:
A new partnership between the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing and a national robotics company will teach workers the necessary skills to help shorten a “skills gap” in the state, an RCBI spokesman said Tuesday.
Martin Spears said the partnership with FANUC Robotics America Inc. to offer the FANUC Robotics Certified Education Robot Training program will provide training that workers need for jobs that are already out there.
Points:
- “A skills gap between graduating students and retiring Baby Boomers is real.”
- “There’s a whole workforce who are retiring or being promoted so they need the replacement workers to fill their spots, but all these jobs are going unfilled.”
- “Much of the skills gap is going to be concentrated in “middle skill” jobs, skilled technical jobs that require more than a high school diploma but less than a four-year degree.”
Ponder: Your area is probably experiencing similar employment issues. What is happening in your area to address those issues?