Apprenticeships
Learn more about how to combine education and real-world work experience.
To grow and to thrive in today’s economy, employers in all industries need a highly skilled workforce. Now, more and more are discovering a proven strategy for building one: apprenticeship.
Combining classroom instruction with on-the-job training, apprenticeship programs help bridge skills gaps and bring new talent into the workplace, including people with disabilities and those with non-traditional backgrounds and education experiences. The result is a pipeline of primed and ready workers for years to come.
What’s more, apprenticeship is a strategy for preparing workers in not only traditional trades, such as construction, but also high-growth industries, such as health care, information technology, transportation, energy and many others.
Interested in learning more about how apprenticeships can help build a skilled, prepared workforce for your company or industry? Watch “#ApprenticeshipWorks,” a video produced by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). This video features interviews with representatives from four organizations that manage or sponsor apprenticeships in a range of fields, including information technology, health care information management and shipbuilding.
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