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2 0 S T U F F • F a l l 2 0 1 9 S T U F F M a d e I n N H . c o m provide programs that help connect employers with potential employees, and offer opportunities for people to learn the skills they need to succeed in the job market. One such initiative, called 65 x 25, is based on research indicating 65% of New Hampshire's adult workforce will need to be highly skilled or credentialed by 2025 to meet the state's job needs, said Sara Colson, Director of Workforce Accelerator 2025 and Membership Development at the Business and Industry Association. "Right now, we're at about 55%," Colson said. Quick, high-tech training "There's technology embedded in everything now," Colson said. "If you go into a manufacturing facility now and you think about what manufacturing looked like for our grandparents, it's so different now. It's so high-tech." Today's workers "really need to have additional training that is not being covered in high school," she said, although not necessarily a college degree. For example, some workers qualify for jobs after completing a brief program such as BAE Systems's 10-week "Microelectronics Boot Camp," held at Nashua Community College, which comes with a guaranteed job interview upon completion of the course. Elsewhere, Josh Spaulding, 22, found his path to employment "I thought I'd be in one section, working with the same group of people, but they moved me around from product engineering to quality engineering, process engineering, and all those different sections, which was really nice because I got to work with a lot of people and I learned a lot more than I could have at school," - Calista Chappell, Hitchiner Manufacturing Summer Intern Josh Spaulding, 22 POSITION: Process support technician COMPANY: Hypertherm, Plainfield SALARY RANGE FOR HIS POSITION: $50,000- $60,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics CAREER ASPIRATION: "I'll probably retire here. They have a great retirement plan. Long-term goal – I want to be an engineer." COLD RIDE: "I love to snowmobile."