Small-business owners can't outspend big competitors for talent, so training matters more. 70% of skilled-trade jobs fall into just 20 categories, with maintenance and repair leading. Continuous training keeps people around when you can't match bigger salaries.
The reality is, if we all agree that there's this much of a gap in terms of the number of resources, we're going to have to start training people. Yeah. We're going to have to invest in the time to actually spend with them because for small businesses in particular, if you know you can't outspend somebody, then you got to train and develop. In fact, one of the most interesting facts that I learned is that in the skilled trade space, 70% of all of the positions in skilled trades are done by 20 jobs. And the number one job in that group is maintenance and repair. And so that's the biggest of that segment. That's the most stress that you're going to see in the marketplace. And so taking the time to train and develop and constantly be training and developing them is yet another retention tool.
