“I always wanted to be outside, not working in some office, but being outside knowing I was getting something done. I want to become a first assistant or superintendent of a golf course.  North Arkansas College has really helped me academically because I get knowledge at school and I get knowledge in my on-the-job training, so I can instantly take what I am learning on the job or at school and [apply] it directly.”

“The Apprenticeship program offers GSK (and any employer) a unique opportunity to not only find talent in a challenging hiring market, but to also show an investment in all of our team members, regardless of their being new to the company or a current employee who is building on their skillsets and career opportunities.”

“The apprenticeship program has allowed us to find awesome, motivated people like Christina who are the right culture fit that we can train and mentor. We are also excited to be able to give folks opportunities that might not otherwise get them.  We see apprenticeship as a key part of our growth strategy and are very excited about it.”   

“I’m from West Africa originally. … ACDS came to my school, at UCA, and told us about the data analytics apprenticeship program. I signed up, and they connected me with DXC, a really big company. … We graduated from the apprenticeship classes in April, and now I’m a C/Unix Developer for DXC. I have the career I wanted.”

“I’m actually the first in my family to graduate college. … I worked at McDonald’s for several months after graduation. … I saw First Orion’s apprenticeship post on Indeed, that they would hire me and teach me what I needed to know. … I’ve now been at First Orion since the summer of 2018. I work with the mobile data team, which is comprised of a small number of people, and there are so many projects that we’re almost a shared resource. I feel like there’s a lot of decision on what I can work on, which I love.”

“Like most kids I liked to play computer games. But I also liked to take computers apart, to diagnose them. I loved building and configuring computers…. I found the ACDS posting about apprenticeships. This is it, I thought, because it talked about how you don’t necessarily have to have any prior experience.”

“I’m doing a SharePoint apprenticeship [at Affirma]. SharePoint is a Microsoft program that helps companies build their own websites…. The entire apprenticeship is one year. The first six months we’ll be earning our certifications with Microsoft, and then we’ll be put out into the field. It’s going really well.”