Attracting Talent Amid an Ever-Growing Skills Shortage

Other factors contributing to the shortage of skilled workforce include loss of knowledge due to experienced workers leaving the workforce, lack of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills among workers, and a gradual decline of technical education programs in public high schools. State-of-the-art injection molding software, machinery, additive manufacturing, IoT and cobots are all technologies that are being used to manufacture our products, and we have a genuine need for people to run and maintain this equipment. Since launching our original STEM initiative in the U.S., we now have an apprenticeship program in our UK office that allows students to attend school and work at Southco at the same time and have also launched a student training program in China.