System Navigator: Work-Based Learning
This System Navigator will help you identify the key connection points of your work-based learning system. This System Navigator will help you identify the key connection points of your work-based learning system. Whether you are…
JFF's Framework for a High-Quality Pre-Apprenticeship Program
These 6 aspirational characteristics of high-quality pre-apprenticeship programs can build equity and improve success in new or existing programs. Pre-apprenticeship programs can be delivered by a range of entities and are designed to prepare underprepared…
IMT Accelerates Apprentice's Career Opportunities
As a result of his Industrial Manufacturing Technician apprenticeship, Rick Bostwick is moving up the career ladder at Dayton-Phoenix Group. In 2016, Rick Bostwick had been working on factory floors for more than 10 years…
How Nontraditional Technology Training Providers Can Strengthen the IT Talent Pipeline
Nontraditional technology training programs are becoming trusted providers of IT talent. Through internships, apprenticeships, and other exposure to the workplace, nontraditional technology training providers (NTTPs) are actively positioning themselves as competitive talent solutions to meet…
Giving Manufacturing Career Pathways a LIFT
This book chapter from an upcoming compilation explores the way the Industrial Manufacturing Technician apprenticeship supports workers and companies’ needs. This book chapter from an upcoming compilation explores the way the Industrial Manufacturing Technician apprenticeship…
Connecting Apprenticeships to the Young People Who Need Them Most: The Role of Community-Based Organizations
CBOs can play an essential role in connecting young adults to sustainable employment through apprenticeship programs. Nearly 40 percent of America’s 18- to 24-year-olds are not in school and do not have a college degree,…
Closing the Gap: The Future of Apprenticeship in California
The driving force of California’s growing innovation economy is talent. However, there is also a growing mismatch between the type of talent in demand and the type of talent in supply. This paper describes why…
Apprenticeships: The Next Stackable Credential?
Apprenticeships: The Next Stackable Credential? This report explores how “stackable apprenticeships” can be used to structure short-term apprenticeships into a full career ladder. Extremely rare 20 years ago, now over a quarter of new Registered…
Strategies for Implementing OJT Simply and Effectively
This guide addresses key misconceptions of on-the-job training (OJT) and provides specific implementation tactics used by local workforce areas. This guide addresses key misconceptions of on-the-job training (OJT) and provides specific implementation tactics used by…