Dr. Barrie Kirk, Vice President of Corporate and Continuing Education and Economic Development at Midlands Technical College, and Mr. Tom Ledbetter, Associate Vice President and Executive Director of the MTC Enterprise Campus spoke to the Club at our regularly scheduled meeting on Friday July 13, 2012. They discussed the jobs gap and the talent gap– that is the gap between what is needed in the service area verses the available talent. The main “take away” was that credentialed jobs made possible by technical school training such as that available at Midlands Technical College are high paying jobs that will be in high demand in the foreseeable future. We should encourage our youth to consider the opportunities provided by a technical school education.