Michoacán will detonate human talent to take advantage of nearshoring

Michoacán seeks to reconfigure its educational system to adapt to the new needs of nearshoring and thus have more human talent, reported Governor Alfredo Bedolla Ramírez.

In a conference, he explained that they have identified that Asian, European and American companies are not only interested in the availability of industrial land, they also want entities to have specialized engineers and technicians, in addition to having educational centers that guarantee the rate of qualified graduates.

“We have to do a whole reengineering in Michoacán if we want to be part of nearshoring, of the relocation of companies, human capital is essential. What are companies looking for? Apart from logistics, the location, the supply, it has to do with human capital”, he said.

In this sense, he announced that a series of meetings have already started with all the educational subsystems of Michoacán to adjust the academic curricula and match them with the needs of the industry.

“Our intention is for Michoacán to also be a pole of investment attraction for these companies, these industries,” he pointed out.

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The governor explained that one of the challenges facing the state is focused on the fact that specialized engineers graduates leave the entity to work in other neighboring regions, such as Guanajuato.

“We have first-class human capital, but most of our students who graduate from technology leave the state, they go to Bajío, they go to the center of the country or to the west,” he commented.

Bedolla explained that nearshoring must be taken advantage of based on the agreements of the North American Leaders Summit and the new federal industrial policy, where a plan for subnationals to take advantage of relocation stands out.

According to the Secretary of Economic Development, Claudio Méndez Fernández, each year more than 26,000 graduates of upper secondary and higher education report to the entity, 12,000 of them do so from technical careers.

“Companies interested in settling in the entity in a context of promoting nearshoring or relocation of their plants will require professionals,” he added.

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