Apprenticeship helps businesses develop highly skilled employees. Apprenticeship programs also retain skilled employees, increase employee productivity and lower the cost of recruitment. Additional benefits include:
- Customized training that meets industry standards, tailored to the specific needs of businesses, resulting in highly-skilled employees.
- Increased knowledge transfer through on-the-job learning from an experienced mentor, combined with education courses to support work-based learning.
- Retaining skilled employees 91 percent of apprentices that complete an apprenticeship are still employed nine months later.
- A safer workplace that may reduce worker compensation costs, due to the program’s emphasis on safety training.
- A stable and reliable pipeline of skilled workers.
- A systematic approach to training that ensures employees are trained and certified to produce at the highest skill levels required for the occupation.