Division of Apprenticeship Standards - employers

Apprenticeship is a talent development model that can grow your workforce customized to your needs.

The skilled workforce is aging and keeping skilled employees can be challenging. You get the opportunity to take individuals with raw talent and train them to your needs. You save money on recruitment. The apprentices that make it through a program have a commitment to their work and a loyalty to their educator/employer that ensures your company a large, diverse, flexible workforce of skilled workers.

• Eliminates need for expensive recruitment programs; people are already trained.
• Creates a diversified and flexible workforce and a larger pool of employees with specific skills.
• Reduces cost of high labor turnover; employees show high morale and loyalty when in a training program that offers upward mobility through career development.
• Increases productivity; employees in a structured training program are motivated to achieve.
• Uses available local education provider facilities for required related classroom instruction.

• Contact the Division of Apprenticeship Standards at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DAS/das_offices.htm and let them guide you in setting up a program, including:
  • Understanding how apprenticeship works.
  • Learning what the state standards for education and employment are.
• Once you have an idea of what facilities are available to you, interview other businesses utilizing apprentices to hear their experiences.
• Take advantage of an opportunity in California to gain skilled employees.

Other information:

• Apprenticeship as a Critical Component of an “Earn and Learn” Job Training Strategy in California White paper on apprenticeship Produced on behalf of the California Workforce Investment Board by the Interagency Working Group on Earn and Learn Job Training Strategies and Apprenticeship in California December 2012

Revised April 29, 2013