FABTECH 2016

F64: Build A Manufacturing Workforce with Veterans & Skilled Labor for Dedicated Employees (Room N209-N210)

17 Nov 16
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Tracks: Finishing, FINISHING, Management, MANAGEMENT, Smart Manufacturing, Welding Fabrication, Workforce Development

The World at Work – Engaging Engineering Talent with Global Insights from Kelly Services
The labor landscape has changed considerably over the past few years, is your organization keeping pace? You’ll gain insight into what engineering talent is looking for from employers, how to get on board with the concept of work-life design, the top soft skills to consider when hiring and why the first 15 minutes of an interview is critical.
Joseph W. Lampinen - Kelly Services Inc.

Workshops for Warriors Is Rebuilding America's Advanced Manufacturing Workforce, One Veteran at a Time!
Workshops for Warriors manufactures manpower by providing quality training, educational programs and opportunities to earn third party nationally recognized credentials in advanced manufacturing fields. The advanced manufacturing industry is suffering from the shortage of a skilled workforce. Let us provide your organizations with trained and certified manpower using the best raw material in the world... Veterans. We are all responsible for maintaining our countries national security and by providing quality education and training we will be able to rebuild America's advanced manufacturing industry, together.
Hernán Luis y Prado - Workshops for Warriors

Skilled Labor: How to Create an In-House Manufacturing Skills Program
This presentation will detail the steps necessary to reverse and establish an effective program for manufacturing skills development. The current crisis in manufacturing skills can be seriously corrected by establishing an internal Manufacturing Skills Training Academy. By offering an intensive 90 days of specific skills training, a manufacturing company can take a new employee, with the requisite minimum skills - into a specialty position in metal stamping, fabricating or welding requiring precision skills. George Keremedjiev - Tecknow Education Services, Inc.

How to Find Experienced, Credentialed, and Dedicated Employees…Grow Your Own!
We have found an abundance of entry-level work force for industrial maintenance and welders, yet a shortage of experienced folks who have put in the time to gain the knowledge and experience that only on-the-job can provide. The question becomes, how can we combine these two? We grow them ourselves; learn how in this interactive session.
Jeffrey B. Cutchin and Curtis Marshal - Olney Central College

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