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Employment bus is transit's boon

Much attention is being paid to workforce development by the transit industry. APTA has put together a blue ribbon task force to study the issues and make recommendations. The association's business members are being encouraged to participate in the study. 

There are important programs in place that recognize transit career needs such as the APTA Scholarship Foundation and the APTA Management Training Program. With unemployment hitting record levels, is there a better time to attract new people who will make public transit a career?

Until next time,

Dan

posted @ Thursday, June 04, 2009 3:49 PM

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# re: Employment bus is transit's boon

Left by charlene nash at 6/4/2009 5:45 PM
I FORMERLY WAS IN TRANSIT AND LOVED IT, HOWEVER WHERE I LIVE NOW i CANNOT OBTAIN THAT POSITION OF DRIVER.

# re: Employment bus is transit's boon

Left by Dewan Masud Karim at 6/5/2009 8:25 AM
We really do need professionally skilled people in transit business. North America need a better and efficient transit system. Thats is my impression since I moved to Canada after having high level transit experience in Japan. Planning and design of transit system in North America is still miserable condition. Everybody is expert in transit although very few have in-depth knowledge in it.

# re: Employment bus is transit's boon

Left by Richard Brooks at 6/5/2009 10:21 AM
The transit industry needs to do more than just "recruit more" - it needs to recruit different. What provisions are being made to capture anyone but fresh-from-college transit grinds? Agencies have learned to sell their green alternative, but where do they hire their green staff? How can marketing staff (or any other staff, for that matter) have anything resonant to say to prospective riders if they don't ride public transit themselves? Wouldn't long-time riders (who really do know about "rider experience") warrant some role in guiding transit agencies? How might they be recruited? The net can't be cast much deeper, so why not cast it broader?

# re: Employment bus is transit's boon

Left by Lawson Teshima at 6/5/2009 11:36 AM
Transit has stolen many of the drivers in the workforce because of guaranteed hours and slightly higher pay and benefits here on Oahu, HI. The tour bus industry cannot seem to get together and raise its prices to provide higher wages to the drivers to offset the obvious advantages that transit offers.

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