How the HIRED program aims to upskill and re-skill Arkansans for today’s workforce Karl D. Schubert LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (November 14, 2024) –On Thursday, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Secretary Hugh McDonald, Chief Workforce Officer Mike Rogers, and Arkansas Workforce Connections Director Cody Waits awarded $48 million in training grants to support workforce development efforts […]
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INQUISITIVE…PEOPLE-ORIENTED…RESULTS-DRIVEN. That’s a pretty good summary of what it takes to succeed in workforce development, and, not coincidentally, it’s also a good description of this month’s Apprenticely Insider. Amanda Champlin thrives on helping employers align business needs with strong talent and training pathways through IT apprenticeships. ___________________________________________ I was looking at your educational background on
What they know…where they learn it…what they’re lacking EDITOR’S NOTE: As a loose companion to the “citizen data scientist” article in this issue, we asked ChatGPT, our contributing-editor-in-training, to fill us in on just how data literate the average self-taught 17-year-old is—and isn’t—today. _______________________________ THE TYPICAL SELF-TAUGHT 17-year-old who begins learning data science today
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The Director’s Chair HAPPY FEBRUARY TO all our friends and partners! While we at Apprenticely focus year-round on continuous improvement, here in Q1 of 2026 our thoughts are squarely on innovation—in other words, how to do more with less, while maintaining the high quality of our services. If you interact with any technical brand these
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Love in the Tech Age—get off your phone!…Today’s workplace and the need for “change fitness”…Will A.I. find the world’s next big soccer star? Check it all out right here. ‘Get Off Your Phone’: Debora Spar on Love in the Digital Age – Harvard Business School AI Trends for 2026: Building ‘Change Fitness’ and Balancing
How employers use apprenticeships to build what’s next Clint Hankinson IN AN EVER-EVOLVING marketplace, shortages of skills, the challenges of an aging workforce, and the constant demands of technology significantly impact the success of today’s organizations, making effective succession planning more important than ever. Longtime skilled workers are retiring, while others are finding greener pastures
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MEET VERDIA MAYSAge: 46Hometown: Pine BluffApprenticeship: Highland Pellets MY BACK STORY I grew up in Pine Bluff, and I’ve been here all my life. I love it. I’m the next to the youngest of five children, and my two brothers and two sisters and I had a wonderful childhood. We were lucky enough to have
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Artificial laughs are better than no laughs at all IT BEGAN WITH too much reading of the latest news. “Hello,” we wrote to ChatGPT, our contributing-editor-in-training. “It’s the start of another year, and we humans are in great need of a laugh. When you and your fellow chatbots get together at the end of a
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The Director’s Chair GREETINGS FROM OUR neck of the frozen Southland. We at Apprenticely hope this month’s newsletter finds all of you well and warm and your new year off to a good start. On our end, we’re excited to be celebrating, and participating in, the January 28 kickoff of the American Manufacturing Apprenticeship Incentive
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The forces likely to shape the business world in the next 12 months…Job-seekers need a reality check that mentors can provide…How to think about your next career move. Check it all out right here. Eight Trends for 2026: Pricing, Passion, and the Risks Ahead – Harvard Business School In Unsteady Times, Job Seekers Need