Goff said job hopping is one potential pitfall in the blue collar job market.
"If you look at your grandfather or mine, mine happened to push the broom in the factory when he was a teenager," Goff said. "He ended up running the factory when he was 50. Every time he moved jobs, there's like an employee jacket saying, 'Oh, he proved himself doing this' so he moves up."
Today, Goff said most workers end up switching companies more often, but lack the ability to demonstrate the experience or skills they had built up in previous roles.
"Every time you move, you have to reprove yourself," he said.
So it's especially crucial for blue collar workers to find a way to accumulate and leverage previous recommendations and praise.