Adult Apprenticeships: The Skills-Based Channel Driving the Future of Tech Talent

With a high demand for skilled workers in tech, professional development is essential for companies and job seekers alike. However, as technology continues to reshape our society as a whole, it changes job requirements. Apprenticeships are growing to be the desired pathway to a career in tech while attending to the recent shortage of tech […]

Making permanent improvements to the tech worker pipeline 

Apprenticeships are not a new idea, but they are a big part of a new talent plan whose time has come for Indiana’s tech community. In order to remain relevant as a national tech hub, Indiana must inclusively hire 41,000 people for tech jobs by 2030.  Hiring high-potential individuals and providing training for jobs currently […]

Tech apprenticeships are changing lives as well as company futures

If the word apprenticeship conjures images of tool belts and construction sites rather than computer science and software, you’re not alone. The skilled trades, such as carpentry and masonry, have been hiring apprentices based on their passion for or interest in the field and training them on the job since the 16th century. By contrast, […]

OneAmerica® develops talent playbook other tech and tech-enabled companies can use

While the skilled trades like carpentry and masonry have had a clear pathway to employment since the 16th century through apprenticeships, and plumbing and electrical have had them for nearly 100 years, apprenticeships and other clearly defined paths into the professional services and industries—like technology—have lagged behind at best or never really taken hold. Of […]