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Article: Plug the Skills Gap at a grass-roots level.
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- Plant Engineering
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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Bob Vavra, Editor
There were 793,000 people in manufacturing who lost jobs in 2008. Here's a story about one person who got a job in manufacturing in 2009.
Julie Nechchat is a student at Valencia Community College in Florida. She went from not knowing what she wanted to do after high school to the military, which is not an unusual career path. What followed was unusual. She wound up fueling jets on an aircraft carrier, then came home without a clear path of what's next, but with the experience and discipline gained as a veteran.
She found that experience to be of good use in the Florida community college system, and was directed into the ...