Business leaders continually explore new ways to recruit and retain workers. This is especially true in the textile industry in regard to drawing in younger people who may not be knowledgeable about the industry and its employment offerings.
“There is a demand for skilled and qualified people, both at the shop floor and at the laboratory level and research level,” says Seshadri Ramkumar, Ph.D., professor of chemical countermeasures and advanced materials at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. “But the problem is there is no feed because students, particularly domestic students, are not showing much interest in getting into paper science or textiles.”
Camari Henderson, owner of Camari Henderson Design in Vallejo, Calif., also sees an increase in demand for skilled workers in textiles. “The tailors of the world, the seamstresses of the world, at this point, they are aging out, but the jobs are still there,” she says…