The next-gen IMT apprenticeship: a return on investment study

An underdeveloped talent supply pipeline has resulted in a skills gap and a skilled labor shortage in the manufacturing sector across the United States. This is potentially the result of a lack of diversity in educational opportunity offered to students, an emphasis on college enrollment rates as a high school performance metric, and the conflation of college and career readiness. The Industrial Manufacturing Technician (IMT) Registered Apprenticeship offers one solution to increase the basic skills of the labor pool in a variety of skilled manufacturing settings such as food processing plants ... Show more

Authors: Payne, Jonathan

Published: Boston, Massachusetts, Center for Apprenticeship and Work-Based Learning, Jobs for the Future, 2020

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Physical description: 50 p.

Access item: https://www.jff.org/resources/next-gen-imt-apprenticeship-return-investment-study/

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