By the numbers: U.S. apprenticeships expanded by 77 percent in the past decade…Separating signal from noise in A.I….Unscripted peril—a video game in which A.I. does the talking. Check it all out right here. Ready or Not? Here Apprenticeships Come – National Association of Scholars Want to improve AI? Look for the helpful data hidden […]
A FEW MONTHS ago, people in the apprenticeship space in Arkansas received calls from a reporter for National Public Radio. She wanted to know more about the fact that the State of Arkansas had been selected by the U.S. Department of Labor to administer a major national fund for apprenticeships in manufacturing. After a lot
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MEET SHELBY WRIGHTAge: 30Hometown: Fort Worth, TexasApprenticeship: Medical Assistant, Best Start Pediatrics MY BACK STORY My family is actually from Albuquerque, New Mexico, but we moved to Weatherford, Texas, when I was 4, going on 5. My family’s kind of what we call a patchwork family. My parents got divorced and remarried, so I have
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Is tech-enabled gambling just that—or is it reshaping work, risk, and decision-making in America? Editor’s note: Wondering if there were an angle on the explosive growth of online betting suitable for this newsletter, we dispatched our intrepid contributing-editor-in-training, ChatGPT, to investigate. Here, with considerable human input, is his report: _______________________________ SOME SAY THAT if
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The Director’s Chair FIRST OF ALL, be sure to read this month’s Q & A with National Public Radio correspondent Andrea Hsu, the reporter who came to Little Rock earlier this year and ended up producing two NPR pieces on apprenticeships and Arkansas’ prominent role in helping make this alternative hiring strategy the national success
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Will A.I. enhance, or eliminate, these jobs?…The three essential roles that companies need to innovate at scale…What Chinese stocks reveal about A.I.’s limits. Check it all out right here. Enhance or Eliminate? How AI Will Likely Change These Jobs – Harvard Business School Three Essential Roles Companies Need to Innovate at Scale – Harvard
How the HIRED program aims to upskill and re-skill Arkansans for today’s workforce Karl D. Schubert ¬† LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (November 14, 2024) -On Thursday, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Secretary Hugh McDonald, Chief Workforce Officer Mike Rogers, and Arkansas Workforce Connections Director Cody Waits awarded $48 million in training grants to support workforce development efforts
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INQUISITIVE…PEOPLE-ORIENTED…RESULTS-DRIVEN. That’s a pretty good summary of what it takes to succeed in workforce development, and, not coincidentally, it’s also a good description of this month’s Apprenticely Insider. Amanda Champlin thrives on helping employers align business needs with strong talent and training pathways through IT apprenticeships. ___________________________________________ I was looking at your educational background on
What they know…where they learn it…what they’re lacking ¬† EDITOR’S NOTE: As a loose companion to the “citizen data scientist” article in this issue, we asked ChatGPT, our contributing-editor-in-training, to fill us in on just how data literate the average self-taught 17-year-old is—and isn’t—today. _______________________________ THE TYPICAL SELF-TAUGHT 17-year-old who begins learning data science today
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The Director’s Chair HAPPY FEBRUARY TO all our friends and partners! While we at Apprenticely focus year-round on continuous improvement, here in Q1 of 2026 our thoughts are squarely on innovation—in other words, how to do more with less, while maintaining the high quality of our services. If you interact with any technical brand these
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