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GUILFORD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Catalyst for Success

Aerospace Talent Pipeline

Aerospace jobs are plentiful…..skilled personnel are not. We now have a “body” shortage, not a “talent” shortage. (Abigail Miller | Jul 19, 2019)

Employers are in Competition with:

• Trucking Industry
• Auto Manufacturers
• Heavy Industry
• Construction Trades
• Health Care Industry

How Do You Win?

Employers are Reaching Out

• Employers are engaging potential talent in new ways, the

days of job fairs filling the gap are gone

Employers are recruiting non-skilled personnel and filling training pipelines now

• Work Study
• Apprenticeships
• Internships
• HS and Military

Recruiting

How To Develop a Pipeline……

• Partner with your local Community Colleges
• Find the Deans and Technical program directors who can help

develop the training needed to transition the non-skilled talent pool for you. (Willing is Key)

• Combine Continuing Education with Curriculum upgrade ability

to get talent onboard and productive sooner vs. later

• Partner with local Four Year Universities for Engineering
• r Technical talent
• Capturing the minds of students and showing them what the
• pportunities are before they graduate is key
• Internships have a high rate of success in future hires

How To Develop a Pipeline……

• Industry Supplies the Technical Experts to Start
• By developing the core technical training, linked directly the

needs of industry, colleges can build the Curriculum and Labs that will make students productive day one

• The training can be used by industry as a filtering method if

used as pre-hire or pre-apprentice efforts

• Industry can self sponsor, work with NCWorks, or join regional

apprenticeship groups already developed

What Else Has to Happen?

• You must develop a recruitment method combining the

efforts of local businesses, county and state resources

Students have multiple

• ptions and career

paths to take. You have to sell your Aerospace pipeline program to all potential candidates, get them excited and signed up.

Now You have to Maintain It

• Build local and regional job/career advertisement into your

plan so undecided career seekers take notice.

• Help your new partners support you with your needs
• “Build it and they will come” is not reality.

Developed, but not supported

by your Marketing Plan

Developed, supported by your

Marketing Plan

Key Focus Items

• Utilize your local resources, state/regional funding programs

can reduce the cost of developing a talent pipeline

• Cost reductions in internal training can off-set added marketing
• Be prepared to help fund not only job/industry advertisement

to influence career choices, but to keep your pipeline full

• Be ready to inject talent into the educational stream until

programs are developed and stood up (Part Time Faculty)

• Grow where the support and resources are available and

willing to support

• The keys to talent in this tight market are simple; Retention plans and

Culture that make people want to stay. Talent pipelines that keep your costs competitive as you integrate them to your culture.

GTCC

GUILFORD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Catalyst for Success