The challenge to keep and retain skilled workers is hardly new, but the skills gap has been accelerating in recent years. By 2025, analysts anticipate over 2,000,000 skilled manufacturing jobs will go unfilled. Compare that to 600,000 unfilled jobs in 2011.

The skills gap is more than just a retirement problem While a retiring workforce is a primary driver, there are complex pressures making it difficult to maintain steady and skilled worker resources.