VFBATTERY REPORT

Skills & Training Gaps

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Battery Report 2025, page 688: Skills & Training Gaps
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Skills & Training Gaps

Skills and Training Gaps: Leading Constraints on Battery Industry Growth Employers consistently report difficulty filling roles due to persistent skills gaps and insufficient training pipelines, particularly for manufacturing, process, and applied technical positions.

IN YOUR OPINION, WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE MAIN BARRIERS TO HIRING SKILLED TALENT IN THE BATTERY INDUSTRY?

These workforce limitations are cited alongside cost and supply-chain challenges as key barriers to growth, underscoring talent readiness as a structural, not short-term, constraint on industry expansion.

WHEN YOU FIRST STARTED YOUR ROLE, HOW WERE YOU TRAINED?

These patterns suggest that insufficient training infrastructure is limiting the speed of factory ramp-up.

Source: Battery Talent Census

Extracted from the PDF; charts and images may read imperfectly.

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