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Need Funding? Learn More About the Advantage: Apprenticeships Program

Employers: An apprenticeship program provides a long-term solution to your workforce needs and talent gaps

Partner with Oakland County Michigan Works! to launch a U.S. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship program.

A Win-Win Opportunity for Everyone

Build a Registered Apprenticeship program to expand your skilled workforce and provide a comprehensive, work-based training opportunity.

Apprenticeships combine classroom study with paid, on-the-job training under the supervision of a journey-level craftsperson or trade professional as a mentor.

The length of apprenticeships vary, depending on the training requirements that you determine are necessary for apprentices to succeed.

Registered Apprenticeship programs may be eligible for federal and state grant support.

Follow Our Roadmap to Building A Registered Apprenticeship Program

Explore how an
apprenticeship program
creates skilled workers
        
Build core components
and standards of your
apprenticeship program
        
Launch your
apprenticeship
program
EXPLORE
(2 Months)
PARTNER
(3 Months)
BUILD
(3 Months)
REGISTER
(3 Months)
LAUNCH
(2 Months)
                    
Partner with key
players in your region
to develop a program
           
Register your program to
join the DOL-Registered
Apprenticeship network
     


Factors to Consider

  • What are your career pathways?
  • What skills are your current employees lacking?
  • What training is already underway?
  • What steps are needed to fill any training gaps?
  • What is entailed with registering an apprenticeship program?

What’s in It for Your Company?

  • Build a skilled, nationally recognized credentialed workforce
  • Knowledge transfer to new generation of workers
  • Increase employee productivity and collaboration
  • Reduce turnover costs
  • Lower recruitment investment
  • Expand diversity
  • Incentives may be available

Events

DRIVING INNOVATION EV Jobs Academy Employer Collaborative

Learn how employers are driving education and training solutions

  • Date: 06/11/2024 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM  

Automakers across the globe are developing electric vehicles for sale in the United States. The demand for talent to design and build these modern cars and trucks, plus mechanics to service them, continues to grow. Now is the time for employers to upskill their workforce to succeed in the EV space.

Join us for our next virtual workshop, which will highlight the work of the Michigan EV Jobs Academy Employer-Led Collaborative. More than 130 partners, including manufacturers, labor, industry stakeholders and educational institutions, are charging forward to develop training programs to meet the automotive mobility and electrification industry’s talent needs.

The EV Jobs Academy is managed by the Workforce Intelligence Network and the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity and its Office of Employment & Training Sector Strategies Team.

WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Learn about the EV Jobs Academy Employer-Led Collaborative and how it has proven to be a successful model for the industry.
  • Hear directly from an employer actively engaged in building EV workforce through networking, curriculum development and providing technical expertise.
  • Hear from Oakland County Michigan Works! about training support to upskill your existing workforce.
  • Gain an understanding of how your organization can engage in this field and become a champion of the automotive mobility and electrification industry.

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At Your Service

Oakland County Michigan Works! Office Locations

Novi
Oak Park
Pontiac
Southfield
Troy
Waterford

How to Get Started

Contact Liz Rivard-Weston, Oakland County Apprenticeship Success Coordinator, at rivardwestone@oakgov.com.