How employers use apprenticeships to build what’s next Clint Hankinson IN AN EVER-EVOLVING marketplace, shortages of skills, the challenges of an aging workforce, and the constant demands of technology significantly impact the success of today‚Äôs organizations, making effective succession planning more important than ever. Longtime skilled workers are retiring, while others are finding greener pastures […]
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MEET VERDIA MAYSAge: 46Hometown: Pine BluffApprenticeship: Highland Pellets MY BACK STORY I grew up in Pine Bluff, and I’ve been here all my life. I love it. I‚Äôm the next to the youngest of five children, and my two brothers and two sisters and I had a wonderful childhood. We were lucky enough to have
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Artificial laughs are better than no laughs at all IT BEGAN WITH too much reading of the latest news. ‚ÄúHello,‚ÄĚ we wrote to ChatGPT, our contributing-editor-in-training. ‚ÄúIt’s the start of another year, and we humans are in great need of a laugh. When you and your fellow chatbots get together at the end of a
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The Director’s Chair GREETINGS FROM OUR neck of the frozen Southland. We at Apprenticely hope this month‚Äôs newsletter finds all of you well and warm and your new year off to a good start. On our end, we‚Äôre excited to be celebrating, and participating in, the January 28 kickoff of the American Manufacturing Apprenticeship Incentive
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