There is an ever growing shortage of experienced professionals in our field these days. Whether we are talking about PCB design, fabrication or assembly, finding the right seasoned professionals is now a serious problem. Actually, more than a problem because there just are not as many as there used to be. Many have changed careers […]

The gap between employee and employer in business is now considered one of the biggest challenges we face today. Our hiring base is vastly different from what it always was, and we are going to have to adapt if we want to be able to meet our workforce requirements. This is not the greatest generation […]

If you have not figured this out yet, you’d better get on board and do it fast. If you have been known to treat your people poorly and get away with it, you are about to get a rude awakening, and I mean a really rude awakening. It’s a new ball game out there. People […]

When John F Kennedy visited the Space Center in Houston in 1962, he came upon a janitor, and asked him what he was doing. The janitor looked at the young president and smiled and said, “I am helping put an American on the moon.” When a food wagon employee was asked how she liked her […]

Getting The North American PCB Industry Off Death Row Part 3 Let me tell you a story, my story. In the early 70’s I was driving a forklift in a huge textile factory in Lewiston, Maine for the minimum wage of $1.60 an hour. I worked the second shift, so I might have gotten a […]

A couple of facts to start with. The Boomers wanted jobs for life. They wanted security. Remember when working at the post office was a great career choice because you would have a job for life? Comedian and Seinfeld co- creator Larry David likes to tell the story about how disappointed his mother was that […]

Yes, this problem continues to challenge us as we head into 2021. I know of companies that have twenty or thirty job openings right now and are having a hard time finding people to apply, never mind filling them. One would think that with unemployment the way it is these days people would be storming […]

As the world comes back to life, we’re all going to have to find  more people for our companies. Finding, and hiring the right people has become a critical issue for most of the companies in our industry. I know of some companies that have recs open for twenty to thirty jobs! And they are […]

There is an old saying that goes if you want someone to climb a tree don’t hire a horse, hire a squirrel. Kind of an inelegant quote but you get the message. To prepare for this column, the  third in the series on leadership, I again looked through my library of business books to see […]