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Posted on 05/13/2017 3:16:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — Berkeley County leaders want everyone who wants to work at the upcoming Volvo plant to have their best chance.
They're launching a program with Trident Technical College to provide training to county residents that will teach them everything they need to know to snag a manufacturing job.
While the training doesn't guarantee a job at Volvo, it does give participants a leg up over someone who is just coming in off the street.
"This pilot program shows that Berkeley County leaders are keeping our promises and connecting Berkeley County citizens with jobs," said Berkeley County Supervisor Bill Peagler. "It's an exciting time for the County, as Volvo Cars gets closer to opening its facility. We’re honored to have strong partnerships to create job opportunities for people here at home."
Ahead of the program, they're holding two events to tell interested residents what the training is all about.
The first one is Thursday, June 8 at Timberland High School starting at 5 p.m. The second meeting is on Saturday, June 10 at Cane Bay Middle School at 9 a.m.
These meetings are open to Berkeley County residents only and pre-registration is required.
Volvo will be firing up the Ridgeville plant next year. Hiring is expected to begin this Fall and nearly 2,000 positions will be created over the next decade.
Visit the event website to register and learn more.
A guy who is a first rate machinist with a couple of decades of experience applied.
He got maybe 95% of the way through the maze of applying and got rejected.
I hate it for him, he’s a good guy.
FWIW, I submitted my resume to what looked like the IT side just to see what happened. I got an acknowledgement message.
SC is rocking. Look up their inland port center and it explains quite a bit.
It is ramping bigtime. BMW will have their own port.
What do you do? I have a data center going into Charlotte on floor 20 of a new high-rise.
These companies who announce they have a huge need for help always go through their ridiculously stupid HR department which makes it near impossible to get a job. In my younger days before I was self employed I remember job hunting. The HR department would post something like a requirement for 20 years of a certain software that hasn’t even existed or 5 years. Or the typical “Masters degree required. 25 years experience. Must work nights and weekends. Minimum wage.”
IT departments don’t need much help. Putting them together and doing the physical work does.
A high value electrical background with an overall understanding of a Data Center and its UPS back-up will land you a job anywhere.
I’m fortunate to work on the side of economic development that tries to stop such foolishness on the part of HR departments. They’re a hard-headed bunch, I’ll grant you that! However, I’ve also seen the operations types with ignorant ideas about the wages they’ll be able to hire at. Example - ready for certification code welders: $14-15/hour. There were about 5 of us wondering what they were smoking when they decided on that wage.
Mrs. Mad has a Volvo. I have the skills to work on it. Why? Because it costs a bloody fortune to change the serpentine belt on it at the dealer.
Volvo, which will build the S60 sedan in SC, joins BMW and Mercedes in SC. A high percentage of these vehicles are for export, so they’re in competition with Mexico, and add pressure for ‘free trade’ agreements.
I’ve always heard that Volvos are really well made but when they break, it is a pricey fix.
60 through to some 80s stuff I can do a lot. This modern era of Knight Rider lite electronic stuff, I’m pretty useless.
This is owned by a Chinese company, Geeley Auto, btw.
Volvos are square in the entry-level luxury market. Everything about them is priced accordingly. They are relatively expensive to buy and maintain compared to a Toyta or Ford, but compare favoorably to Audi, or Infiniti.
A Volvo S60 sedan is about the size of a Corolla, but not many people would cross-shop them.
Like Sandia National Lab, they want a pHD for evry damn job. I applied for one with 24 years experience in the very task they needed and never heard back.
If they were hiring someone to park cars they’d start off with Formula 1 championship helpful.
I have often said that South Carolina was Europe's Mexico, or source of cheap labor. However after a scolding by another Freeper, I realize that without foreign investment, the Palmetto state would be a 1930's sharecropping economy. I guess $16 or less an hour is better than no job.
And, while not automotive, Boeing has a nice little operation in Chucktown.
Back in 1998 I was hired as a “Software Programmer” by an engineering supervisor who stated exactly what he needed to have accomplished, then specifically stated that a degree was NOT required!
HR kicked and screamed the whole way, but he, his boss and the VP of engineering fought for me the whole way. They all seemed happy with my work. Great group of people to work for/with (except HR)!
“What do you do?”
We should talk. What areas does your company cover ?
I love doing those projects, and I run a team of experts. We are in the NE though, and I want to go south. Badly.
I applied to Raytheon to work in Antarctica in 97.
I speak English, French, some Russian, Romanian and Icelandic. (Although I’m not fluent). IQ of 174, peak physical condition and experience in Government I.T. contracting with recognition from the FBI and DoD. The UN offered me a job, I had perfect telecommunications experience and letters of recommendation from Sprint, euNetcom, Belgacom and Dun&Bradstreet (DUNSNet).
I was rejected unceremoniously.
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