Festo Didactic Opens Workforce Education Center in NJ

Back in September, we reported on Festo Didactic's plans to bring German-style apprenticeship for manufacturing to the U.S. in order to help alleviate the skills gap manufacturers are seeing across the country, and prevent such a skills gap in future manufacturing generations.

Festo brings much-needed German-style skills training to the U.S.

According to Georgetown labor economist Anthony Carnevale (via the Wall Street Journal), “two million U.S. jobs go unfilled because of shortfalls in skills, training or education.” One German company, Festo, thinks it has the solution: a German-style vocational program that will apprentice students and young professionals to train them in what employers and jobs require for successful careers.