Key issues firms had:
- Difficulty filling critical healthcare support openings with workers having good personal characteristics.
- Difficulty filling professional and managerial openings with qualified and skilled workers.
- Newly hired professionals and managerial workers tend to leave after only one year.
- Production, transport, and trades workers tend to view the community or region unfavorably.
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Groton's Potential Strategies to Address the Issues:
- Affordable Housing.
- Make residents feel welcomed. Start-up Welcoming Program.
- Marketing - good pictures, enhance Internet marketing, characterize regionally - school district region for housing, recreation, employment, etc.
- Provide entrepreneurship support.
- Café (communicate need and/or community investment options)
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