Finding work as a plumber, electrician, or HVAC technician may be appealing to those seeking to develop their career path. But, knowing how to get properly trained in the trades and paying for their vocational training may be perceived as a barrier.
Smart business owners know that finding a way to reduce these two barriers will help with recruiting new talent and retaining top employees. NexTech Academy can help your shop create a plan to offer vocational training to recruit new employees.
1. How to train? Via online vocational training programs
Entering fields in the trades once required technicians to train at costly brick-and-mortar vocational schools with restrictive, set schedules.
Now, it is possible for business owners to offer NexTech’s technical training programs to employees who wish to complete HVAC technician training, electrical training, or plumber training online.
Online training options are a great benefit for those employees who seek to improve their job skills, but who also have family commitments outside of school and work, that make attending an in-person class difficult.
2. Why? Flexible vocational training options
Everyone is pressed for time these days; especially those who are already go-getters in their field. But, if you’re a business owner, you also know that these motivated individuals are some of the best talent to recruit or to retain as employees.
At NexTech Academy, we know that traditional trades apprenticeships and classroom learning doesn’t work for many people on-the-go in their field.
In contrast, online vocational training programs allow top talent to learn at their own pace and to complete their HVAC technician, electrical, and plumber training coursework online when it’s most convenient.
Students studying online at NexTech Academy complete their course of study in the trades as their schedule allows.
This allows them to make progress while working hours in your company where their current skill level is needed. They can continue to work for you while they advance their skill set to a new level through their training at NexTech Academy.
If you, as a business owner, choose to pay for a portion (or all) of their online vocational training as part of their benefits structure, you are incentivizing motivated trades talent to stay at your company well into the future; rather than searching elsewhere for their next career advancement.
3. Help them advance their trades career
NexTech Academy’s online framework makes course materials, assignments, and assessments available to your employees and trades trainees anywhere they are.
That means they can accomplish their online trades training with oversight from your company’s mentors at work or at home after work.
By creating a mentoring relationship to help them advance their trades career, you are developing loyalty between all parties that can pay high dividends versus the cost of providing the online training benefit.
One of the big challenges of today’s job market is retaining top employees. But, if you invest in their skill set as workers in the trades, they will know that you intend to help them achieve their best career path. This is rewarding for both parties: employer and employee.
4. Lower your trades training costs
As many employers know, providing postsecondary education is costly; the average student has $30,000 in student loans. NexTech Academy uses modern technology to offer electrical, plumbing, and HVAC technician courses online that address the full range of skills that every competent technician requires; but, at a cost that will lower your shop’s budget for offering training in the trades.
NexTech Academy, for example, offers a subscription program with monthly payment options. Our no-risk guarantee also allows your company to cancel training, at any time, with no further charges; your company only pays for the online training completed within your program.
Explore NexTech online today
NexTech Academy is the leader in offering in-depth online vocational programs designed to help new plumbing, electrical, and HVAC technicians acquire the essential skills needed for success.
Check out the next steps to get your company started offering our vocational training programs as a benefit for recruiting or retaining top talent in the trades, or contact us for additional information on our online vocational training programs.
