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Line workers
Engineering
Skil led trade workers
Sales and marketing
Manufacturing/Production Management
59%
55%
60% 69%
53%
POSITIONS IN DEMAND BY MANUFACTURERS FOR 2013
28%Stay
the Same9%Decline
PERFORMANCE EXPECTED IN 2013
Grow63% 42%
OF MANUFACTURERSARE HIRING NOW
7 10MANUFACTURERS SAY NEGATIVE PERCEPTIONS ABOUT THE PROFESSION ARE DETERRING NEW GENERATIONSFROM JOINING FORCES WITH THEM
outof
HOWEVER...
AND... Only 25%…of manufacturing workforces are 30 or younger
If Manufacturers don’t start to BRING IN MORE MILLENNIALS now, who will take the place of those Baby
Boomers retiring? We could be facing a huge crisis!
WHILE MANUFACTURING CONTINUES TO GROW, THE FUTURE IS UNCERTAIN AS BABY BOOMERS AGE OUT
