Build a workforce of talented employees for your company.
Partner with El Camino College to hire trained students equipped with the technical and soft skills needed to be successful in the workplace.
Skilled Local Talent: Budget-Friendly and Ready to Work
Partner with El Camino College and OpenClassrooms to access motivated talent acquiring today’s most in-demand tech and marketing skills, at minimal cost to your bottom line.
Why Apprenticeships Work for Employers
- Training is fully funded: 100% online, project-based learning with OpenClassrooms 1 day/week.
- Immediate impact: Apprentices apply their new skills on the job at your business, 4 days/week.
- Salary offsets available: Funding available to reduce your hiring spend, even further.
For your company, this means streamlined hiring, and the opportunity to assess potential hires on the job.
OpenClassrooms can help identify candidates with the exact skills you need and provide ongoing support for both you and the apprentice throughout the 12-month program.
Apprenticeship Program
Your Budget-Friendly Pipeline to Emerging Talent
Through El Camino College and OpenClassrooms, you can hire apprentices already training in today’s most in-demand tech and marketing skills, reducing hiring costs, speeding up time-to-hire, and improving retention.
These apprenticeships give you direct access to motivated, pre-trained candidates who can contribute from day one, while receiving structured mentorship and completing online project-based learning. It’s a cost-effective way to grow your team and ensure new hires have the exact skills needed to grow your business.
Employee Development & Apprenticeships
El Camino College is dedicated to providing support to businesses and their new employees to ensure that companies have a continuous path of employee development. We’ve found that a structured approach works best, since it outlines tangible benchmarks for on-the-job learning and related training. It’s a new and innovative model for apprenticeships, where employers completely craft an individualized program based on their own needs. In our experience, when our companies work with us to support our students or recent hires as new employees, the new employee stays with the company for longer periods of time, is a higher-performing harder worker, and completes their degree or certificate program, making them more valuable to your company. El Camino College takes care of all the apprenticeship registration paperwork and time and effort needed to ensure the employee completes the program.
Any employer in the state of California, or any state in the United States, can register with an El Camino College apprenticeship program.
This means that if there is an employer who wants to start an apprenticeship program for their company, such as machining or electronics, they can register with El Camino College. El Camino College can take care of all the DOL/DAS paperwork and monitor the progress of each apprentice. The “related technical instruction” can be provided by a local community college, any online provider or ETP. El Camino College takes care of all the paperwork, including create documents to help them track “on the job” training, assess prior learning credit, and track the related technical instruction. We can register any occupation that the company wants! There are certain tax breaks and benefits companies receive for having DOL registered apprentices!
Any apprentices who register with a company can count all the related technical instruction they received prior to registering as an apprentice.
This means if any employer has had an employee participate in ETP training, that would count. This means if the employee participated in any sort of training relating to the occupation (i.e. OSHA training, technical training, safety training, leadership classes, etc.), that would all count towards the apprenticeship completion. An apprentice only needs to complete 144 hours (minimum) in the apprentice, so if the apprentice has 144 hours of prior learning and are in an apprenticeship, then they have completed all the RTI hours even before they started the apprenticeship!
Continuing Training and Education
El Camino College offers a variety of courses that are of benefit to new or current employees of many companies. El Camino College can support these employees with registering, enrolling and completing these courses. If needed, El Camino College can offer courses onsite at the company for a group of employees.
