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Submission + - Employers Turning To Apprenticeship Programs To Meet Tech Skills Gap (thehill.com)

jonyen writes: For generations, apprenticeships have been the way of working life; master craftsmen taking apprentices under their wing, teaching them the tools of the trade. This declined during the Industrial Revolution as the advent of the assembly line enabled mass employment for unskilled laborers. The master-apprentice model went further out of focus as higher education and formal training became increasingly more valuable.

Fast forward to the 21st century, where employers are turning back the page to apprenticeships in an effort to fill a growing skills gap in the labor force in the digital age. Code.org estimates there will be a million unfulfilled tech jobs by 2020.

Joanna Daly of The Hill writes:

IBM is committed to addressing this shortage and recently launched an apprenticeship program registered with the US Department of Labor, with a plan to have 100 apprentices in 2018. ... Other firms have taken up the apprenticeship challenge as well. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, for example, has called for creating 5 million American apprentices in the next five years.

An apprenticeship offers the chance for Americans to get the formal education they need, whether through a traditional university, a community college or a trade school, while getting something else: On-the-job experience and an income...


Comment Re:HIGHER price? (Score 1) 105

It worked for Apple: iPhone 5c, iPod Shuffle, MacBook Air...all much inferior to their predecessors. Tesla's introducing the Model 3 out after the success of its Model S. And Chinese companies make cheap knockoffs all the time. When it comes to hardware, you typically introduce the better stuff first. Then the next year, you ramp up the hardware just enough so that they want to switch to the next version.

The freemium business model works better in the case of software and apps, because people don't want to buy your software, but try it out first and then pay for the good stuff.

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