Kayla Webster at Inc. reports with more than seven million unfilled jobs in the U.S., employers are looking to an old school method to train and up-skill their newest Workers. Employers aren’t happy with the skills - or lack thereof - their entry-level hires bring to the workplace, so they’re reviving a strategy that’s thousands of years old to find new talent: Apprenticeships. There are currently more than 678,000 Registered Apprentices in the U.S., an 88.5% spike since 2015, according to the U.S. Office of Apprenticeship, a Federal Department that supports and sets the standards of these programs. With there being several millions of unfilled jobs across the Nation, companies may have started building more of these programs to train Workers to fill those open positions. Advanced Manufacturing, Financial Services, Education, Technology and Hospitality are just a few industries with robust Apprenticeship Programs, according to this office. Vinz Koller, who serves as Vice President of The Center For Apprenticeship and work-based learning at Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national non-profit that helps create Apprenticeship Programs, says “being fully trained into a position” through Apprenticeships gives participants a “better leg up into success” than internships because the relationship with the employer is “so strong.” 

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