Employers are struggling to find qualified, motivated workers despite a surplus of them out there, looking for jobs. A recent Harvard study shows that poor job descriptions, coupled with ineffective filtering and AI may be to blame for screening out qualified applicants. GE partners with Voxeljet AG on 3D printing - the binder jetting technique could be a game-changer. Plus, the Ridley undersea drone system being nurtured by ORE Catapult, Vestas factories closing and more.



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Transcript: EP80 - Voxeljet Partners with GE; Is The Hiring Process Broken? And, Will Carbon Capture Work?



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protection system. Forward thinking wind site owners install strike tape today to increase uptime tomorrow. Learn more in the show notes of today's podcast. Welcome back. I'm Dan Blewett.



I'm Allen Hall,



and I'm Rosemary Barnes,



and this is the uptime podcast bringing you the latest in wind energy, tech news and policy. All right, welcome back to the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. I'm your co-host Dan Blewett on today's episode. We've got a full full docket today.



We're going to talk about Vestas closing three plants in Europe. Some interesting submersible technology coming out of OarI Catapult. Ridley is hoping to contribute a lot of robotics to submersible and undersea development. So we'll see what's going up there.



We'll talk about GE renewable energy, partnering with Voxel Jet, some really interesting sand casting and 3-D printing stuff going on there. We'll talk about Chevron and some other shareholder meetings. Their CEO has been talking kind of about their future and it looks like to be in in contrast with what Shell is doing.



So we know a lot of the oil companies are moving into renewables and Chevron has a good view of renewables, which doesn't sound like they'll be investing in them. We'll talk about electric electricity prices climbing rapidly in Europe.



The world's biggest carbon capture machine now flipped on to Rosemarie's. Got big things to say about that. We'll also talk about at the end some big recruiting and job stuff. A really big topic about interviews, the job description process, algorithms filtering, and whether or not employees and wind and other sectors are suffering, because some of it is



maybe the digital hiccups that are going on in hiring right now. So before we get going, I want to remind you, sign up for uptime tech news. You'll find that in the show notes of this podcast today, whether you're on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, YouTube, wherever.



And definitely check out Rosemarie's Engineering with Rosie YouTube channel, which you'll also find in this description here today. So, Rosie, let's get started with you. Vestas is closing three plants in Europe. Is this something that people should be really alarmed about?



Obviously, some jobs are going to be cut, but what does this look like for investors in their future?



Well, yeah, I mean, it's hard to say what the the business looks like, but I think when companies are deciding where to have their factories and keep their factories, it's mostly to do with one where their sales pipeline looks like it's going to be.