Looking for Skills and Talent

Since 2007, manufacturers have added more educated workers while eliminating less skilled / less educated positions. Increasingly employers are looking for credentials for skills rather than 2 and 4 year degrees. As the baby boomer cohort leave the workforce, there are currently not enough under 25 and 25- 34 year olds to make up for their loss. This means that not only will productivity increases have to continue, but also that we need to really make an effort to bring 34 and under people into our skilled workforce in manufacturing.