Bringing the Right People Together
Effective apprenticeship programs require a strong network of partners. Safal Partners has proven experience bringing stakeholders together to develop programs that provide local residents with apprenticeship-based career pathways and employers with broader pipelines of talent to fill critically-needed open positions. If you are an educator, policymaker, industry intermediary, workforce system, or state/local agency leader interested in being part of a team to develop workforce solutions for local cybersecurity or tech needs, we want to work with you!
What Role Do You Play?
Businesses
Identify the occupations, knowledge and skills apprentices need and provide on-the-job learning for your qualified new hires or incumbent employees who register in the apprenticeship program.
Industry Intermediaries
Can support employers by sponsoring an apprenticeship program, aggregating demand across multiple firms (especially for small- and medium-sized businesses), provide related instruction and/or supportive services (i.e. mentoring, outreach and marketing).
Workforce Systems
Recruit and screen candidates to be apprentices for hiring employers, provide pre-apprenticeship and basic skills preparation, develop customized training programs, contribute direct funding to defray costs associated with apprenticeship for eligible workers, and provide supportive services (i.e. equipment, books/educational resources, subsidized transportation or childcare).
High School and Career and Technical Education (CTE) Educators
Identify and recruit youth or young adult apprentices, deliver related instruction to registered apprentices, develop and/or implement curriculum validated by industry employers, deliver supportive services.
Two and Four Year Colleges
Can sponsor or co-sponsor an apprenticeship program for local employers to ease administrative burden, identify and recruit students as apprentices for employers, deliver related instruction, provide college credit for successful course completion, and deliver supportive services.
Local and State Agencies
Convene businesses to identify needed occupations and skill requirements for local workforce development, provide technical assistance, identify sources of additional funding to leverage and braid for long-term program sustainability, connect businesses with local educational or training providers for related instruction courses, assist in developing relationships with other organizations for apprentice recruiting and overall program success.
Community Nonprofits
Market apprenticeship programs to targeted populations (i.e. women, minorities, veterans) they serve to broaden employers’ talent pipelines, provide pre-apprenticeship and basic skills instruction, and provide supportive services.