Michael Ungar argues the manufacturing skills gap stems from lack of exposure. When younger people get hands-on experience, they become enthusiastic about manufacturing careers. More practical, on-the-job training for high school and college students could close the gap.
My belief is that the current skills gap that we have is really just because of lack of exposure. We've seen it even with other guests we've had on, or we have some younger millennial co-founders on our group as well. And their excitement about something that they never thought they would be working in is just amazing. And to me, it's just a matter of if you have more exposure and you have hands-on exposure as you're talking about here, right? That's just gonna increase that interest and get more and more of the Gen Zs. Yeah, Gen Zs right now, of course, out of high school and college to be interested in this. And so that's a great way to kind of narrow that skills gaps a lot.
