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Does your company train unskilled workers? Or are previous skills or credentials required?

• bluedino 4y ago
  No. They will hire people who are taking or have completed classes at the community college as apprentices occasionally. Companies are afraid to spend money training when they don't think they will have reliable people (based on past experiences)
  • appletrotter 4y ago
    Given that you have more specific requirements for the role, why are you comparing your salary with that of Walmart? > don't think they will have reliable people (based on past experiences) People who have been burned become insecure. Insecurity can lead to irrationality. This is something which effects relationships.
  • yterdy 4y ago
    If a large number of people who are already credentialed for a job get it, and then quit soon after, why would it be rational for someone to spend their own time and money pursuing unpaid training in the hopes of also being hired onto that job? It seems to me that companies have unrealistic ideas about what they need to do in order to attract employees. Start training again. Cross-train, even, if the boredom issue is a real one. Make work floors more hospitable (provide heaters/fans, lower noise, etc.). There was a time when typists and "computers" worked regimented shifts in sweltering/freezing, warehouse-style offices, too; very few workers will put up with being triple-layered at their keyboards or drowning in their own sweat these days. Maybe that needs to change for trades; or, businesses need to pay more to reflect the trouble people are putting themselves through for their paycheck.
• bluedino 4y ago
  To add to this: it's a union shop so you can't hire someone off the street and train them to be an electrician, for example. You need to take the training classes and then wait for an apprenticeship opening (get in line and you better know someone) You have to fill out this form apparently. http://www.ibew.org/ContactForm/ http://www.ibew.org/ContactForm/