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MCTV VIDEO Social Media With BCI’s Wayne Drescher
Bremen Casting Inc.’s Wayne Drescher spoke with MCTV at CastExpo’13 in St. Louis about how metalcasters can utilize social media to promote their business.
MCTV, a new American Foundry Society and MODERN CASTING video portal, intends to bring a new medium to continue educating and advancing the industry. Visit
www.metalcastingtv.com to learn more.
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The video featuring Wayne Drescher discussing social media can be watched at
www.metalcastingtv.com.
POLL QUESTION
The April website question asked: In honor of the opening of the 2013 baseball season, which major league baseball player had the best
metalcasting-related nickname?
This month’s question is available at
www.moderncasting.com.
56%
“THE IRON MAN” CAL RIPKEN JR.
22% 14%
“SCRAP IRON” PHIL GARNER
CONNECT WITH US
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“THE IRON HORSE” LOU GEHRIG
8%
“SANDMAN” MARIANO RIVERA
This year’s AFS Hoyt Memorial Lec- ture was given by Gene Muratore, Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium America, dur- ing CastExpo’13 in St. Louis, and since then I’ve been mulling over several of his points, particularly one in which he compared the salary of a recent college grad with a liberal arts degree vs. the salary of a recent college grad working in a metalcasting facility, which is generally signifi cantly greater. Why isn’t pay in manufacturing jobs—including those in the metal- casting industry, salaried and hourly— talked about more? The general feeling seems to be doctors, lawyers and brokers make the big bucks, teachers, accountants and public workers make middle class wages, and those in the manufacturing industry are the work- ing class living paycheck to paycheck. How can we change that percep-
tion? Would young high school and college students be more inclined to consider a career in metalcasting if they knew how much they could make? I think so. When you go to career days or host school groups, do you only talk about the job require- ments? Don’t these students deserve someone to tell them, frankly, “You will make twice as much money here than as a librarian”? We can be shy or coy about pay.
Let’s not be. It’s one of the industry’s strongest recruiting advantages. —Shannon Wetzel, Senior Editor
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