Workforce Development / Retention- roundtable dialogue
CLEAN CURRENTS 2025
Time: 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Day: 10/16/2025
Room Number: Roundtable Dialogues
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Topics to discuss:
- Innovative strategies to attract, develop, and retain skilled professionals
- Mining non-traditional labor pools with a focus on candidates with military backgrounds who have skills that translate well to jobs in water power (e.g., construction management or operations/craft labor positions)
- Identifying Preceived Knowledge or Skills Gaps Across the Industry
- Solving the craft and trade shortage – what can we do to attract new workers in this area?
- How are we cultivating the next generation of hydropower professionals?
- What’s sustainable – how do you go from short-term fixes to a long-term strategy to move logically from one step to another – recruitment, training, retention, and knowledge transfer
- Why people are leaving – where within your team are you coming up against invisible challenges and how can we identify and fix those?
- Retention strategies is a huge topic for the industry right now
