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John 13:35(KJV) By
this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
UNITY. YoU
aNd I Together … whY?... First
and foremost, because the God who made us, said that it should be
that way. The world today talks about everything that matters, except
the one thing that truly matters. Our relationship with
each other, without conditions, or expectations. Simply because you are
you, and I am me.
Secondly,
each of us have differing skills and abilities. To work for the good of the
whole, and make this world a better place, we all need to merge our
skills and abilities into a cohesive partnership. There
is no purpose served by my attempting to do what you do, or for you to
attempt to do what I do, if we are both doing what God intended for us to
do.
Thirdly, are
you operating a business or working for a business that relies on
semi-skilled or skilled personnel? If you know anyone in such a position you
know there is a critical shortage of available candidates for employment. I
am sharing to address any such need you may have, or know about.
Fourthly, I
am a skill training veteran with 65-years’ experience in multi-craft and
cross-skill transfer initiatives. I promote workforce participation through pay-for-skill/earn while you learn initiatives. (No
college debt, or accumulated educational expense). Admittedly, the
majority of my experience has addressed manufacturing reliability/maintenance
services (electrical/electronics, hydraulics/pneumatics, instrumental,
mechanical and utility systems) but as applied and integrated, rather
than linear as common to traditional education and training.
Lastly, from
a Biblical perspective, my knowledge of the universal need compels me to
offer to assist by offering hope, help, and encouragement. There are
numerous independent providers of online training available today. Most will totally avoid assisting with . multi-craft
skill integration.
Your best candidates
for skill upgrades are your current employees. They
already know you and your policies, procedures, and your expectation (and
where the bathrooms are). More importantly, you already know them. You
already have a level of trust, mutual confidence, and you know their dependability
in matters of behavior and personnel expectations. Consider an offer to current
employees by posting your categoric needs; and announcing pay-for-skill
progressive advancement. Then enroll them in skill clusters of
approximately one year each; working toward specific skill needs in your
facility. Then hire to replace them in positions of lesser skill.
I am not writing to
attract attention to my unique qualifications, and time and attendance are
not the qualifiers. I honestly do not know anyone else that graduated with
an Industrial Engineering Bachelor’s degree and a 27-credit hour minor in
Mechanical engineering (achieved in a five-year co-operative program with
General Motors. But more importantly building on that foundation, spending
the next 60-years actively promoting blue collar skill needs for
electricians, pipefitters, millwrights, electronics technicians,
instrumentation technicians, and welders.
In the peak of the
apprenticeship era, each of these titles required a 4 or 5-year
apprenticeship, and an investment of $5,000.00 or more in tools and test
instruments. Today, the greatest myth in education is that a 2-year
Mechatronics diploma graduate will be capable of accomplishing the task
assignments that were the responsibilities of all of the trades named
above. If you believe that, I would like to talk to you about some
oceanfront property in Colorado.
The devil is always in
the details, and the details in cross-skill/multi-craft training are
related to the establishing a common core, and then developing an
Individualized Development Plan (IDP) for each candidate to remediate gap
needs against existing job/task skill standards.
If you have an interest
for yourself, or anyone you know that might have an interest, please be in
touch … Be blessed,
Mel
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