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How A.I. Will Revolutionize Cars

How A.I. Will Revolutionize Cars

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’ve 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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End-to-End Process

Success From End to End

The Director’s Chair HAPPY SPRING 2025! There’s a lot going on at Apprenticely, and sometimes we get so busy talking about individual aspects of our much-touted “end-to-end” apprenticeship process that we fail to explain the Big Picture. So this column is for those of you who’ve been scratching your heads and asking yourselves, “What the

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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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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—not 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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More, Better, or Both

HAPPY 2025 TO ALL of our clients, partners, and friends. Hope you’ve made your New Year’s resolutions and have kept them so far. At Apprenticely, our 2025 goals are wrapped in ribbons labeled either “MORE,” “BETTER,” or “BOTH.” We continue our emphasis on IT, but the other sectors—Manufacturing, Transportation/Logistics, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Energy—are gaining

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EAST Initiative and Apprenticely

Apprenticely Partners with the EAST Initiative to Promote Apprenticeships as a Career Pathway for Students

In celebration of National Apprenticeship Week (November 18-22), Apprenticely is proud to announce its partnership with the EAST Initiative to promote the value of apprenticeships as a future career path for students throughout Arkansas. EAST is a community service-based elective course in the K-12 environment across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. “EAST is education accelerated by

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Counting Our Blessings

HAVE YOU EVER been worried and unable to sleep? Well, that’s how I was this past Saturday morning. The coming week—this week—is National Apprenticeship Week, and there are many, many things going on in the Apprenticely world that need to go right. You’ll be hearing a lot about Registered Apprenticeships this week—in this newsletter, on

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