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The Massachusetts Marine Trades Association (MMTA) is pleased to announce the release of two new videos highlighting the boating industry, with a focus on industry jobs in Massachusetts. The videos will lead the viewer to the Massachusetts Marine Trades Educational Trust (MMTET) website: http://massboatingcareers.com. Recognizing the importance of workforce development within the boating industry in Massachusetts, the MMTA & MMTET have ...

Bennington, manufacturer of pontoon boats, announced the immediate expansion of its operations in Elkhart County. This growth includes adding jobs and investing in new facilities. Bennington has secured the property and 43,485-square-foot Center Six One Five building at 2707 County Road 15, Elkhart, IN 46514. This investment allows the company to add manufacturing space and jobs to increase output. The process of ...

The U.S. is currently in a crisis that is impacting our domestic businesses and will likely have a long-term negative impact on our country. This crisis is impacting almost every U.S. company. It is a crisis that is limiting economic growth and wealth generation in the U.S. and, if not solved, will eventually threaten our national security. In fact, when ...

Institutions, industry address critical workforce issue The workforce shortage in the marine industry remains in a state of crisis, but companies are taking active steps toward finding and retaining the technicians and skilled laborers of the future. The majority—over 80 percent by some estimation—of marine technicians still gain their core skills through on-the-job training, according to the Marine Career Training ...

This blog originally appeared on PowersportsBusiness.com. If you work in the retail end of the marine industry, then you work often in a pressure cooker that is almost ready to explode on a daily basis! No matter what department you work in, marine dealerships are often chaotic, fast-paced and stressful environments. This is especially true when we are in high ...

Pretty much any time a group of my fellow CEOs get together, the discussion will eventually head toward what many of us describe as our biggest challenge – finding good employees. At Correct Craft, we have manufacturing plants across the U.S. and we offer competitive pay and benefits; however, it is still a challenge to find the employees we need ...

A recent article on NPR compares the earning power of a summer job in 1982 versus 2017, and for many reasons it should concern the boating industry. In short, the article shows that an average college student receiving no help from parents needed to work either nine hours a day, seven days a week for three straight months or 16 ...

The Marine Retailers Association of the Americas announced that it has released its 2017 MRAA Compensation Study results, which detail the compensation ranges for 35 common job descriptions in the retail sector of the marine industry. More than 2,600 position-level responses were collected from a total of 292 retail locations for this in-depth report, which was created in response to ...

Starting last week, Facebook users in the U.S. and Canada can search and apply for jobs directly from the social site. This follows recent research from ADP that showed 14.4 million Americans used social media to find employment (present company included). The ADP survey also showed 73 percent of companies had successfully hired employees using social media. Businesses can now ...

If you have quality employees you want to keep working for your business, you need to have a plan to develop them and lead them on a satisfying career trajectory. This plan has to be an actual plan, not just an “idea” for how you might do this in the future. Recent interviews I have conducted for a couple recent ...