What do these companies have to say about paying for apprentice programs?
If you ever have hired someone fresh out of college, you basically have to train them all over again for your particular field of interest. I’ve had to train freshly minted electrical engineers, who couldn’t even read a schematic, let alone tell me what the purpose of a particular circuit was. I had to teach them how to use a multimeter, an oscilliscope, a logic analyser, and understand the information they were looking at. College only arms you with the theories and formulas, the real education begins with your first real job. My job was to find the shiny diamonds in the rough, and make them productive and creative. It was roughly a 10 to 1 ratio.