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1 Preserving Institutional Knowledge While Growing the next generation of Talent Information Technology Advanced Manufacturing Health CareInnovation in Apprenticeship1st Quarter | 2018 CALIFORNIA APPRENTICESHIP COUNCILIn This IssueDIR Headquarters1515 Clay Street, Oakland, CA 94612 1 (844) LABOR-DIR (toll free) 1 (844) 522-6734 Christine Baker Director, Department of Industrial RelationsErika Monterroza Deputy Communications Director Jeanne-Mairie Duval Editor in ChiefContactsThe California Apprenticeship Council Newsletter is a quarterly publication produced by the Department of Industrial Relations Communications Office and is published every January, April, July, and October. Archived issues can be accessed at California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) protects and improves the health, safety, and economic well-being of over 18 million wage earners and helps employers comply with state labor laws.

2 DIR is housed within the Labor & Workforce Development s Division of Apprenticeship Standards (DAS) creates opportunities for Californians to gain employable lifetime skills and provides employers with a highly skilled and experienced workforce While strengthening California s Headquarters1515 Clay Street, Suite 301 Oakland, CA 94612 Eric Rood Acting Chief, Division of Apprenticeship Standards Esther Gamberutti Associate Editor Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Email us at Collaboration Moves Apprenticeship into the Future | Christine Baker4 Apprenticeship Can Play a Pivotal Role in Information Technology | Eric Rood5 California Must Continue to Innovate to Remain the Most Productive State | Jack Buckhorn6 Creating a More Diverse California Fire Service | Van Ton-Quinlivan7 How Youth Radio Is Tackling the Tech Industry s Gender Gap | Michael Lee8 Workforce Apprenticeship in the Running for a National Award | Sharon Ito9 Technical Upskill Necessary Beyond Apprenticeship | Robert Marcial10 Job-Creating Apprenticeships Getting More Attention | John Spaulding11A Word from the ApprenticesPhoto.

3 Pexels2 Apprenticeship / Department of Industrial RelationsInnovative Collaboration Moves Apprenticeship into the FutureMessage from the Director of the Department of Industrial RelationsChristine Baker Director, Department of Industrial RelationsApprenticeship is the perfect tool to create a flexible, quality Dunn speaks to industry leaders during the IT Symposium panel speaker session. (Pictured from left to right: John Dunn, LWDA; Eric Rood, DAS Acting Chief; Christine Baker, DIR Director; Stewart Knox; Employment Training Panel; Tim Rainey, CA Workforce Development Board; Steve Wright, CA Community Colleges Chancellor s Office)Apprenticeship / Department of Industrial Relations 3will focus on the health care industry. The series of symposiums helps us learn what skillsets employers in these industries desire and address strategies to meet those needs.

4 By forming working partnerships with industry leaders and representatives, we can ensure apprenticeship programs are in line with the recruitment needs of each industry. One challenge moving forward will be to adapt apprenticeship programs to match the evolving needs of IT jobs. The IT sector has historically recruited mostly university graduates to supply its workforce. Recently to a Growing degree, workers are able to gain valuable skills outside of universities or before they graduate. New hiring trends are seeing workers hired in these stages and then further trained internally. This change is born from the rapid advances in technology and the way technology shapes how we work and live. Apprenticeship is the perfect tool to create a flexible, high quality workforce in this and other Governor s budget expands statewide apprenticeship opportunities to nontraditional industries and state civil service, and increases access to approved apprenticeship programs for inmates, ex-offenders, veterans, women and other under-represented communities.

5 The budget supports the California s State Strate-gic Workforce Plan, which calls for creating a million middle-skilled, industry-valued and recognized postsecondary credentials between 2017 and 2027, and for doubling the number of people enrolled in apprenticeship in the same must continue to develop collaborative partnerships with education, government and industries to meet the needs of a skilled work-force in our state and to exceed DAS and the Department of Labor s shared goal of 100,000 active apprentices in California by 2020. DIR has the important opportunity in 2018 to establish new apprentice-ship programs in industries beyond construction and traditional trades. We have been working diligently to move into information technology, advanced manufactur-ing and health care.

6 This effort is funded in part by a grant from the Department of Labor, awarded to extend apprenticeship programs to nontraditional, emerging and high-growth industries, as well as increase opportunities for women and low-income apprenticeship model has served the building trades well in developing workers and helping them acquire necessary technical and professional skills. To expand programs to oth-er industries, DIR and its parent agency, the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, have developed a series of Workforce Excellence and Sustainability symposiums to connect with business leaders and experts in the information technology, advanced manu-facturing and health care sectors. Last Novem-ber, state officials and IT industry leaders met to discuss strategies on how to retain a skilled and diverse workforce.

7 This month s conference featured discussion with leaders in advanced manufacturing, and the next meeting in April Apprentice Statistics80,4646,4064, ,0147481,606for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2017 Number of active apprenticesNumber of new registrations and reinstatementsNumber of active women apprenticesPercent of active apprentices represented by womenPercent of active apprentices represented by minoritiesNumber of active veteran apprenticesNumber of veterans registered in 2017 Veterans who have completed apprenticeships in 2017 Apprenticeship Can Play a Pivotal Role in Information TechnologyLetter from the Acting Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship StandardsAfter spending nearly 18 years with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, I am honored to be serving in the role of Acting Chief for the Division of Apprenticeship Standards.

8 Director Christine Baker is a great leader and I am fortunate yet humbled that she has the confidence in me to serve our citizens in this capacity. I would also like to acknowledge former Chief Diane Ravnik, who is a great inspiration and role model to me. Chief Ravnik s shoes will be hard to fill; however, I am excited to bring my talent, skills and abil-ities to fulfill our mission to foster, promote and grow apprenticeship opportunities for all Californians with an emphasis on increasing apprenticeship for disadvantaged populations. Today, over 67% of our registered appren-tices are in the construction trades. Our vision is to continue strengthening our relationships with the building and construction trades, While at the same time grow apprenticeship opportunities in non-traditional industry sec-tors.

9 We need to continue our work to provide skills to our workforce in information technol-ogy, advanced manufacturing, healthcare, civil service and other emerging industry sectors. Information technology is moving at a breakneck speed and there is a need for an agile and trainable workforce. On November 13, 2017, our office partnered with HP to hold an information technology symposium with several industry leading companies to listen to market trends, workforce needs and how apprenticeship fits in this dichotomy. I was fortunate to hear from leaders at HP, SAP, Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems, and Workday leaders and participated in roundtables after hearing from government and industry leaders. There is a real hope that we forge new and prosperous private-public listening to these industry giants, it was clear to me that there is a need for an agile and trainable workforce.

10 A workforce that can learn, unlearn and relearn. These companies are looking for a workforce that has a strong foundation in reading, writing and mathemat-ics. With so many jobs available, companies are not waiting for college students to gradu-ate with a computer science or related degree. Many students are hired in their first two years of college instruction. We were surprised when one of the industry sector leaders stated that Silicon Valley executives consider you a loser if you actually graduated from Stanford. These tech companies are looking for talent and they are competing with one another to find and develop this talent. What better way to find and develop a talented workforce than apprenticeship?There is a great need for a skilled workforce. Our commitment and passion at DAS is to be a conduit between private industry, educa-tional institutions and government agency partners to provide opportunities to our work-force.