IN PART THREE of our series on the people who make Apprenticely tick, we continue to learn just how personal this work can be. Nobody comes to this job in a vacuum‚ÄĒfor every day of talent spotting, careful coaching, and joyful placement, they bring along their own histories. Sometimes, as in Nichole Parsons‚Äô case, that […]
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How online training is fueling the growth of apprenticeships Charles D. Morgan IT’S VERY CLEAR that the whole concept of apprenticeships has definitely caught on in the effort to build a better-trained workforce. From state and local governments to all sectors of industry, Registered Apprenticeships are spreading like wildfire. One of the most amazing things
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The Director’s Chair SCHOOL IS OUT for most, and many are celebrating their graduations. It‚Äôs a great time of the year, both for those grads and the Arkansas workforce. Building on our focus on Youth job candidates from last month‚Äôs newsletter, we at Apprenticely have been strategizing, along with a number of our partners, to
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Great news for the Arkansas workforce ¬† Lonnie Emard Editor‚Äôs Note: Exciting news from Washington broke just as we were finalizing the April issue of the newsletter‚ÄĒthe White House has issued Executive Orders calling for a vast expansion of Registered Apprenticeships. Apprenticely will be sending out a press release about it this week, but here
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70 apprenticeable occupations that may surprise you James Morgan THE SEARCH STARTED uneventfully, even soberly. Apprenticely’s National Apprenticeship Director Lonnie Emard had once told me a college in Arkansas was creating a Bike Trail Builder apprenticeship, which I found really fascinating. So for the month that begins with April Fool’s Day and ends with
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The Director’s Chair FOR THOSE OF you who haven‚Äôt worked with Apprenticely very long, I want to give you a little context. We launched in late 2018 as the Arkansas Center for Data Sciences (ACDS), a non-profit charged with helping to bridge the gap between Arkansas employers‚Äô soaring demand for tech talent and the state‚Äôs
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Buckle up, it’s going to be a surreal ride ¬† Charles D. Morgan ¬† I LOVE FAST, well-designed cars. For many years I drove racecars as a passionate, expensive hobby. I‚Äôve driven Ferraris at Daytona and Porsches at Sebring, as well as Datsuns and other GT road-racing sports cars at various tracks around the country.
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Why “youth apprenticeships” are the coming thing ¬† Lonnie Emard IT SEEMS LIKE our country‚Äôs businesses can‚Äôt get enough talent. The world is changing faster than ever, and every aspect of business, from internal operations to the supply chain to future planning, are changing with it. Colleges can‚Äôt fill the gap, and that‚Äôs one reason
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CONTINUING OUR CONVERSATIONS with the people who make Apprenticely work, we talk this month with one of our key people in talent recruiting and coaching. As you’ll see, Jenny Sales is excellent at her job not just because she’s been trained to do it, but because in many ways she’s walked in her candidates’ shoes.
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The Director’s Chair HAPPY SPRING 2025! There‚Äôs a lot going on at Apprenticely, and sometimes we get so busy talking about individual aspects of our much-touted ‚Äúend-to-end‚ÄĚ apprenticeship process that we fail to explain the Big Picture. So this column is for those of you who‚Äôve been scratching your heads and asking yourselves, ‚ÄúWhat the
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