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Jobs Friday: Why apprenticeships could make a comeback

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Jobs Friday: Why apprenticeships could make a comeback

January 6, 2023 • Apprenticeships: not just for medieval guilds, but also useful in today's tight labor market! More employers in fields such as healthcare are turning to apprenticeship programs to train new hires for critical roles.

Jobs Friday: Why apprenticeships could make a comeback

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Students in the Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education program are able to earn competing, high wages, a new study found. Jim Young/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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It Pays To Be An Apprentice: 63% More

October 20, 2020 • Participants in an apprenticeship program that matches employers with community colleges were able to earn substantially more after one year than their peers at community colleges, a new study finds.

Economists Say Millennials Should Consider Careers In Trades

Jeffy Docteur is one of the students in the NStar electrician apprenticeship program outside Boston. He says he's interested in working on switching systems that keep power flowing through the electrical grid. Chris Arnold/NPR hide caption

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New Boom

Economists Say Millennials Should Consider Careers In Trades

February 2, 2015 • Many economists say a big missing piece of the economic puzzle is apprenticeships that give high school graduates access to good-paying, higher-skilled jobs in the trades.

Economists Say Millennials Should Consider Careers In Trades

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In South Carolina, A Program That Makes Apprenticeships Work

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American Made: The New Manufacturing Landscape

In South Carolina, A Program That Makes Apprenticeships Work

November 6, 2014 • Apprenticeship programs have been in decline, but South Carolina is bucking the trend. Nearly 11,000 apprentices have been trained there since 2007 in fields ranging from manufacturing to nursing.

In South Carolina, A Program That Makes Apprenticeships Work

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