2025 Newsletter Editions

Gamers

Games of Life

How gaming prepares future job candidates for the challenges of today’s workforce   Damon Neiser   I WAS READING an article the other day that showed pictures of the Vatican and all these amazing architectural feats that humans have achieved. Then right next to that, it showed contemporary 8-year-olds in Minecraft, the video sandbox game, […]

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Apprenticeships For America

Apprenticeships For America

It’s time for education and application to work together   Lonnie Emard HAVING JUST SPENT three days in Washington, D.C., with nearly every organization that is impacting apprenticeship growth in this country, I can tell you that the United States is clearly at an inflection point. We’re at the crowded intersection where industry expansion and

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Registered Apprenticeships

Making the Most of Your Registered Apprenticeships

An employer’s guide to optimizing an already good thing   Clint Hankinson   REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS‚ÄĒthat is, a proven model of apprenticeship that has been validated by the U.S. Department of Labor or a State Apprenticeship Agency‚ÄĒare growing fast throughout the U.S. Thanks to new industry sectors embracing apprenticeships, the positive perception among job seekers,

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Winning the Workforce Game

I WANT TO give a big shout-out to James Morgan and Clint Hankinson, who together produce our monthly newsletter. Each month, Jim edits and Clint designs a lineup of quality content that we hope you look forward to receiving, and from which you get some professional utility and benefit‚ÄĒnot to mention enjoyment. Reviewing the articles

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Mentoring

Mentors Make The Difference

Yet after centuries of practice, we’re still having to learn some hard lessons   Lonnie Emard WITH JANUARY BEING National Mentoring Month, I wanted to talk a bit about mentoring and our work at Apprenticely. Just as apprenticeships have moved into new realms of the workforce, so too have mentorships. And it hasn’t happened without

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Mentor

A Mentor’s / Mentee’s Guide to Success

The do’s and don’ts that make for stellar apprenticeships   Nichole Parsons & Gwen Pirkle   (Editor’s note: This feature was adapted for the newsletter from Apprenticely’sMentor Orientation booklet.) Welcome to Mentorship! You were selected to be a mentor for an apprentice or for multiple apprentices. Your selection was most likely due to some of

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Dawn Smith

The Apprenticely Insider Interview – Dawn Smith, Project Manager

THIS MONTH WE kick off a new feature, conversations with the people who make Apprenticely work. The idea is to put a human face on the inner workings of the apprenticeship process and the people who run it. We‚Äôre extremely proud of this team‚ÄĒfor them, this isn‚Äôt just a job, it‚Äôs a mission. We‚Äôre starting

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More, Better, or Both

HAPPY 2025 TO ALL of our clients, partners, and friends. Hope you‚Äôve made your New Year‚Äôs resolutions and have kept them so far. At Apprenticely, our 2025 goals are wrapped in ribbons labeled either ‚ÄúMORE,‚ÄĚ ‚ÄúBETTER,‚ÄĚ or ‚ÄúBOTH.‚ÄĚ We continue our emphasis on IT, but the other sectors‚ÄĒManufacturing, Transportation/Logistics, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Energy‚ÄĒare gaining

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