If your path to success started with an apprenticeship program, please consider participating in this effort

AMT is running a series of articles on Industry leaders who started as apprentices. We want to expand on this effort and share the success stories of apprenticeship holders to encourage more people to follow suit.

If your path to success started with an apprenticeship program, please consider participating in this effort.

Please complete this form:

1. Please give us your name and contact information.

- Company you currently work for:

- Title:

- Tell us what you do there.

2. What was the formal apprenticeship program you completed in any country. - Where, company, focus (e.g. toolmaker), years. Comments.

- Comments and quotes regarding your thoughts on your apprenticeship training.

- Value of apprenticeships for apprentices and the nation’s economy. - How do you think the apprenticeship helped your career?

- Roll of apprenticeship as a basis for your career. What prompted you to decide to enroll in an apprenticeship program?

- Was apprenticeship the first form of training/education after high

school?

3. Did you also earn a degree or participate in any other training programs?

- When, where, what did you study

4. Subsequent career: Cover all or most important positions. with the approximate years served and in chronological order. Focus on the current job.

5. Was your current or highest career position compensation, adjusted for inflation if now retired, higher than the average for PhD’s and professional degree holders (about $100,000)?

6. What work are you currently doing or are you retired from manufacturing i.e. OEM, job shop, technology supplier, distributor.

150 to 200 words would put you in an article for 3 leaders. Much more and we would have just one or two in the article. (The word count of this form without your responses is 346.)

Please provide:

Two Photos: High resolution if possible

1. Recent studio photo

2. Photo as apprentice or at least in that age range. Preferably not a studio shot.

Approved for publishing if we do not edit the text you send?

Purpose of article series: To demonstrate that an apprenticeship is an excellent basis for achieving the career success normally associated with obtaining university degrees.

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Thanks!

Harry Moser

Harry.moser@reshorenow.org