
In the recently held National Hot Rod Association Museum in Pomona, Calif, the automotive experts while discussing future of the industry, focused on the role of automotive industry technology in changing the industry and expressed concern about the availability of qualified talent. In the discussion held, the necessity to reach young people early, recruiting them in automotive industry for their career and imparting top-notch technical training to suit industry was largely emphasized. The continuous growth in the number of vehicles is likely to create new jobs for workers performing basic maintenance and repairs in global automotive industry, including USA. More entry level workers with technical trainings will be needed.
Qualified technicians with formal training, good diagnostic and problem-solving skills and training in electronics and computer field will be in demand as entry level workers. Finding talented employees with the right skills will be difficult unless they are trained by professional institutes to meet future need of automotive industry.
The key aspect to get new people into the automotive industry is to catch them young and ignite passion in them which will hence help to meet the future challenges. The industry ensures the young people great career growth along with the rise of the automotive industry future.
The challenge for technical institutes imparting technical training for automotive area is to deal with students who do not have very basic knowledge about the industry or even the names of the basic tools used. There is an influx of aspirants from the construction industry who need to be trained well for the technical automotive industry. Therefore the curriculum needs to be designed to cover the technological aspects of the automotive industry along with matching upto the level of students coming for technical training. The institutes must adjust to current and even advanced technologies so that students can handle more hybrid technology and advanced diagnostics to meet future requirement of global automotive industries.
Vocational education and technical colleges are required to help the industry meet with the requirement of its future talent by designing the perfect curriculum and also imparting appropriate training.