Should you explore a career in manufacturing? How about just a job, one that pays well, offers opportunities for growth, and provides benefits you might not expect?
Here are a few reasons to add manufacturing companies to your list of potential employers.
This isn’t your grandparent’s industry.
Our culture associates manufacturing jobs with old-fashioned images of conveyor belts and smelting pots and dank, loud, dangerous workplaces with lifelong employees toiling at repetitive jobs until they retire. Maybe they take a break each day to eat lunch from a tin pail. But in recent decades, manufacturing workplaces have seen regulations that make them safer, cleaner, innovative, respectful, and often places where new employees don’t stay for life, but instead launch fulfilling careers into a wide variety of other fields. Take a closer look; what you see on the manufacturing floor may not be what you expect.
Manufacturing jobs are offering better pay.
Along with safety, cleanliness and advanced technology, manufacturers all over the country are beginning to increase salaries to ensure that they can compete for labor against other industries. Minimum or non-livable wages won’t cut it anymore, and a growing number of employers are not just grudgingly offering the new minimum. They want the best workers they can find, so they’re willing to pay the true cost of your commitment, energy, and time.
…And if you want to stay, they want you to stay.
Smart employers recognize that ambitious workers won’t stay on board forever. They’ll come in the door, give everything they have, learn, grow, and then leave to begin the next chapter of their lives. Smart employers don’t resent this—they encourage it. They want to be your stepping stone to “better” things. But they also want to create career paths within the company, so they can retain the talents and productivity of their most ambitious workers. If you want growth, you can find it in manufacturing. If you want stability, you can find that too.
The doors are wide open.
As it happens, the current balance between employers and employees in this sector is tipped in favor of workers. Workers willing to step onto the factory floor are in very high demand right now and fairly short supply. If you’re willing to consider a job in this field, employers are ready to roll out a red carpet for you…or at the very least, they’re eager to take a look at your resume. In fact, many employers have far more open positions than they’re able to staff, so the cards are in your favor at the negotiating table. Have a seat! If you listen to what these employers have to offer, you may find yourself in a great new job—one with a bright future, benefits, competitive wages, a respectful environment, and the opportunity to learn new skills that you can apply wherever your lifelong career may take you. For more information, contact the job search experts at PSU.
