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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

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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