What if skilled trades weren’t a fallback — but a first choice?
Karthik sat down with Kathryn Mirbaha, Regional Sales Manager at OEC Americas, to talk about one of the most pressing challenges in electrical distribution, and across trades as a whole: the skilled labor shortage with the looming workforce gap left by an aging generation of engineers and skilled laborers.
Kathryn shares her own unexpected path into the electrical industry — graduating during COVID with a business degree and facing an upside down job market. Despite having no idea what a breaker was, she jumped into an opportunity that would change everything — and that experience shaped her passion for opening doors for the next generation.
