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March 14, 2013

Small businesses finding ways to cope with a skills shortage

  • The problem is getting more attention as the economy improves and businesses start hiring.
    • By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG
    AP Business Writer

    NEW YORK — There are three jobs open at Rodon Group, a plastic parts manufacturer near Philadelphia. But despite the reports of a shortage of skilled workers nationwide, CEO Michael Araten isn't sweating it.

    Rodon, located in Hatfield, Pa., works with local community colleges to make sure students — the firm's prospective employees — get the skills they need to work at the company making plastic parts for products such as bed frames and machinery. Anyone using its manufacturing equipment needs to have math and computer skills.


     
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