IndustryWeek interviews Carlos Cardoso, CEO of Pittsburgh-area metals manufacturer Kennametal, about his company's efforts to publicize the career opportunities that exist in manufacturing.
In North America alone, we have about 300 job openings. And we have hired about 200-plus people in the last 12 to 18 months.
We have some of the same challenges that everybody else has. That's one of the reasons we have been, for the last 10 years, investing in education and engineering, and we have partnerships with technical schools and universities. It's also why we launched the Young Engineers program.
We felt that we needed to get ahead and start talking to students at the K-12 level. Because at the end of the day, if they're not presented with manufacturing or engineering as a career choice in high school, if they don't get the math skills and the science skill necessary to go into a technical career and/or an engineering career earlier, their fate is sealed as far as what they're going to be doing.
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