
What Is the Manufacturing Skills Gap?
The skills gap represents the shortfall seen in the skills that manufacturing companies need to fulfill current work necessities and keep up with changes in the industry compared to the skills possessed by employees and applicants. In fact, five of every ten open positions for manufacturing workers still needs to be filled and at times these positions can take a number of months to find worthy candidates.
Skills gaps are not limited to the manufacturing sector, of course, but such a gap has been a problem for those in the industry for some years, particularly following the economic recession of 2008.
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