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		<title>Manufacturing: the unseen underground economy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In 1850, a decade before the Civil War, the United States’ economy was small — it wasn’t much bigger than Italy’s. Forty years later, it was the largest economy in the world. What happened in between was (&#8230;) the rise of steel and manufacturing — and the economy was never the same,&#8221; says W. Brian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bertmaes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7906949&amp;post=3268&amp;subd=bertmaes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you want to have a green job: get in manufacturing!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investment in the green economy and renewable energy today will help ensure our economies stay competitive in the future. But perhaps more importantly, right now investment in the green economy is creating new jobs for millions of job-seekers. And guess what? If you want to have a green job: get in manufacturing! A great portion [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bertmaes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7906949&amp;post=3264&amp;subd=bertmaes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School principal Mr. José António Gomes feels that that investing in the Haas VF-2 isn’t just right, but is also risk-free. “First of all,” he says, “it’s risk free because of the quality of the Haas machines, but also because of the well-known service capabilities of After Sales. But, maybe more importantly, even when the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bertmaes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7906949&amp;post=3258&amp;subd=bertmaes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>German manufacturers recruit professionals from Spain and Bulgaria</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The German manufacturers lack skilled workers. So they are urgently looking for young engineers and experts in crisis-torn Spain. Initial negotiations are successful. But kids in technical education have to know foreign languages! High unemployment in Spain encouraged workers to emigrate “In Baden-Wuerttemberg alone, several thousand posts are vacant. We are now looking to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bertmaes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7906949&amp;post=3251&amp;subd=bertmaes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What motivates young people around the world today? Money? Fame? Justice? McCann Worldgroup asked that question to 7000 young people around the world: US, UK, China, India, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Singapore, Malaysia, Chile, South Africa, Italy, Germany, Korea, Japan, Australia and Philippines.  The same three motivations are ranked highly in every country.   And it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bertmaes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7906949&amp;post=3243&amp;subd=bertmaes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PART 1: Understand the manufacturing facts PART 2: Understand the education facts PART 3: Understand the needs of our youth PART 4: Understand the needs of manufacturers [FINAL] PART 5: Understand how to work together with schools I notice that principals are usually committed to establish a unique school, with a sharper profile, a stronger [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bertmaes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7906949&amp;post=3234&amp;subd=bertmaes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Guide to Convince Youth to Pursue Manufacturing Jobs [PART 4]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PART 1: Understand the manufacturing facts PART 2: Understand the education facts PART 3: Understand the needs of our youth PART 4: Understand the needs of manufacturers Simply put: manufacturers look for ready-trained, on-demand and enterprise-ready talent with following skills: Ability to operate sophisticated computerized machinery, follow complex blueprints and demonstrate high math proficiency Ability [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bertmaes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7906949&amp;post=3223&amp;subd=bertmaes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PART 1: Understand the manufacturing facts PART 2: Understand the education facts PART 3: Understand the needs of our youth Very often young people hear that they have to love math and science to be able to follow CNC. They hear that it is challenging, “but if you work hard you can do it”. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bertmaes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7906949&amp;post=3215&amp;subd=bertmaes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Guide to Convince Youth to Pursue Manufacturing Jobs [PART 2]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PART 1: Understand the manufacturing facts PART 2: Understand the education facts Workers complain about a lack of access to continuing job-related manufacturing training and education. Probably both quantity and quality are to be assessed. The machinery in technical colleges is often 30-40 years out of date. It is impossible to teach modern manufacturing techniques [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bertmaes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7906949&amp;post=3206&amp;subd=bertmaes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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