After reading Verticle , Canadian Operators story , the interviewed operators stated that " it was hard to find anyone with any sort of competency, bred-in mechanical skills, or work ethics that we were used to seeing 10 years ago."
"We are seeing a lack of experienced people, and a definite lack of people that want to work in some of the remote locations that we operate in."
"We used to be able to train apprentices where they learned hands-on experience in the field. Now they have to go to a trade shool , but after graduation they 're not flocking to the helicopter industy, they are going to the airlines or manufactures like Bombardier. We are at a disadvantage."
-As a whole are we not promoting the engineer as a career? Helicopter.
-Are these trade schools not producing a qualified apprentice?
-Are these new apprentices without any type of hands on skills (soft skills), that employers need ?
-Are the older engineers not able because of time constraints or not willing to, Mentor , these new apprentices that the industry says it needs so badly?
-Have we created our own problem of not taking the time to show these new apprentices the years of knowledge one has gained. "He's forgotten more than you'll ever know."
-Does the new up and coming apprentices age, have to do with the lack of or not wanting to "Work and get dirty", for a living , because they did'nt have the same opportunities as we had.
I am sure that there are many opinions on why, and what we can and should do to address these shortcomings.
What do we really want in an apprentice , how can we fastrack them , are we willing to spend the time and resources needed to produce a quality engineer?
What does a company need to do to keep them?
Answers?
"We are seeing a lack of experienced people, and a definite lack of people that want to work in some of the remote locations that we operate in."
"We used to be able to train apprentices where they learned hands-on experience in the field. Now they have to go to a trade shool , but after graduation they 're not flocking to the helicopter industy, they are going to the airlines or manufactures like Bombardier. We are at a disadvantage."
-As a whole are we not promoting the engineer as a career? Helicopter.
-Are these trade schools not producing a qualified apprentice?
-Are these new apprentices without any type of hands on skills (soft skills), that employers need ?
-Are the older engineers not able because of time constraints or not willing to, Mentor , these new apprentices that the industry says it needs so badly?
-Have we created our own problem of not taking the time to show these new apprentices the years of knowledge one has gained. "He's forgotten more than you'll ever know."
-Does the new up and coming apprentices age, have to do with the lack of or not wanting to "Work and get dirty", for a living , because they did'nt have the same opportunities as we had.
I am sure that there are many opinions on why, and what we can and should do to address these shortcomings.
What do we really want in an apprentice , how can we fastrack them , are we willing to spend the time and resources needed to produce a quality engineer?
What does a company need to do to keep them?
Answers?