How to Succeed on the Road with Skillwork - with Keith Hatcher
Succeeding on the Road with Skillwork – with Keith Hatcher
Modern technology has allowed hard-working skilled tradesman to have the stability they need while feeding the adventure they crave.
If you’re an experienced skilled worker with responsibilities to fulfill and a hunger for new experiences, we have great news—you don’t have to choose between stability and adventure. You can have both.
In our most recent episode, host Michael Peatrowsky sits down with Keith Hatcher, travelling industrial mechanic for Skillwork. They discuss how working for Skillwork has provided Keith with the chance to travel, enhance his trade skills knowledge and experience exciting new opportunities.
For more information on how you can succeed as a travelling skilled worker in the trade industry, check out skillwork.com/resources.
Main Takeaways:
Working on the road gives you opportunities to learn something new and exciting every day.
The skilled trades will never die because there will always be a need to fix what’s broken.
Showing care in onboarding and training periods makes employees want to stick around.
If you’re willing to give your all, Skillwork will be willing to help you succeed.
Timecodes:
00:00-05:01 |The expectations and realties of being a travelling mechanic.
05:01–07:20 |Are the skilled trades really dying?
07:20–13:31 |The importance of training and onboarding to completion.
13:31–17:50 |How Skillwork honors the dignity of the skilled worker.
Quotes:
“As long as you get out there and you’re willing to learn and put your all into it, they’ll always be willing to jump in there and help.” – Keith Hatcher, Industrial Mechanic at Skillwork
“The skilled trades aren’t dying, the number of people going into them is declining. There’s a higher demand and need than ever but not enough people to meet that demand.” – Michael Peatrowsky, Director of Operations at Skillwork
“It really says a lot about Skillwork that the CEO actually calls and talks to you. How often does an employer call and genuinely wants to make sure that everything is up to par and good?” – Keith Hatcher, Industrial Mechanic at Skillwork
“People have expectations of you at your job, but you also have expectations of them to communicate what you are supposed to do.” – Keith Hatcher, Industrial Mechanic at Skillwork