Apprenticeship Style Training has been used by businesses for thousands of years. They combine related subject matter knowledge with up to 4 years of hands-on practical skills training.

As apprenticeship programs have gained momentum in the United States, the Department of Labor has created RAPs (Registered Apprenticeship Programs) to standardize competencies and provide nationally recognized certifications.

These RAPs include academic subject matter for the apprenticeship, the practical skills employees need to master for overall competency, the required wage progressions for the RAP and facilitation requirements. 

The United States encourages employers to use the collegiate system for the academic training and offers tuition discounts.  They also offer incentives such as tax breaks for enrolling employees into a US industry standard apprenticeship program.

Here at STTS, we understand training & apprenticeships.  Today's workforce is transient and new employees often need training in work ethics, expectations and how to perfrom their roles to their employers standards.

We work with individual employers and create customized Apprenticeships & Training for them.

Each training program is designed for each individual role within the company. They include all related subject matter content and coordinated hands on training.

Our training is delivered on our state of the art LMS platform and is even further customizable by employers to ensure relevancy and current training requirements are accessible immediately to all employees.

Key Benefits Include:

- It is created in conjunction with your team to meet your company mission, standards, and training requirements for each role in your organization

- Cost effective - each module for your team costs less than the cost of one employees training through traditional RAP programs

- Easily add, edit, delete employees  to the training platform 

- Supervisors can check performance in seconds and quick additions to content keep training relevant

- Enroll employees immediately  - no waiting time or schedule conflicts with outside entities

- No reporting requirements to the DOL

- We include our Winning Edge: Work & Life Essential Skills Training to ensure your employees have the right mind set, attitude and skill set to work successfully in their role

Create a qulified, skilled, knowledgeable team that meets your standards and accelearates your business with Skilled Trades Training Solutions.

Pros - 

- Comprehensive Training Program

- Well Trained Employees

- Short term tax credits

Cons - 

- RAP Apprenticeships are extensive and often require training both academically and hands on that are irrelevant to individual employers. They are designed to meet the industry standard.  Many businesses have a unique niche and do not need employees trained to an industry standard, but to their own individual business standards.  Therefor, employers implementing RAP's need to decide if they are willing to spend the time and money to train their employees in skills they will likely not need within their company.

- Logisitcs & Cost

Employers who implement RAP programs have to facilitate academic training with their local college which can be difficult. Employees come and go frequently and scheduling them for class, tracking successful completions, incompleted courses and failed courses,  paying related fees, tracking progress and maintaining training records require a dedicated team member.

- Having a "free" apprenticeship created by the college system or government agency, comes with alot of responsibilities, facilitation and related training which incurs cost in both time and money.

Though apprenticeship creation is "free", this is essentially a skeletal frame of the apprenticeship.  

The apprenticeship lists all requirements that must be met for successful certification.It details the academics that must be taught either by a college, instructor or staff member. 

The apprenticeship progress of each employee must be tracked and reported. 

It outlines the wage progressions earned by employees that must be met at set times and documented. 

Also, the apprenticeship outline will list all practical skills that must be taught, observed, and documented.

The free apprenticeship creation is simply the outline of the apprenticeship requirements that the employer will need to facilitate if they wish to implement it as their training program.