The Latest News From NexTech Academy

Meet Steven Vang, NexTech’s Instructional Designer
How did you get into instructional design? By complete accident. I never realized that there was a whole industry called instructional design or technical writing.

How to Make Working for a Residential Service Company Appealing to Gen Z
The future of the electrical, HVAC and plumbing industries rests in the hands of Generation Z. Now, we understand that this can be said about

NexTech User Profile: Corley Plumbing, Air and Electric
C.K. Baker is the plumbing and electrical service manager of Corley Plumbing, Air and Electric in Greenville, South Carolina. His company currently has three plumbers

How to Motivate Your Employees to Complete Self-Paced Vocational Trades Skills Training Programs
Among the most popular aspects of NexTech Academy is the ability for students to learn at their own pace. This self-paced learning concept makes it

Built to Be the Best Electrician Training Option
The new NexTech Academy electrician training courses have been a long time in the making. Our coaches, instructional designers, business leaders, and training professionals have

NexTech 2.0 Is Here!
Since NexTech Academy launched, we’ve been busy analyzing how users are using the program and planning for improvements. Our observations have led us to the

Hire for Success
Ask anyone who owns an HVAC, electric or plumbing business what their biggest challenge is, and their response is almost always the same; recruitment. With

Interview with Jason Haskin – Service Manager at Boothes regarding Chris Barnett, NexTech’s first HVAC graduate
Joe: So it looks like your company has our very first HVAC graduate Chris Barnett in our program! First, on behalf of Nexstar Network and

Get To Know Jeff Atwell, NexTech’s Plumbing Technical Coach
How did you get into your trade? What was your trade education experience like? I fell into the trade. My brother owned a plumbing company,

How Nexstar Network’s Industry Experience Supports NexTech Academy Training
NexTech Academy is among the most effective providers of online technical training programs for HVAC technician training, electrical training and plumber training. But who is

Find New Apprentices in the Restroom
Do you wish that you just had two minutes to explain to your target audience why your company is the best to work for? Well,

NexTech Academy Helps Businesses Train Service Technicians with Online Videos
Training videos that go into the field with your technicians NexTech Academy online courses prepare HVAC, electrical, and plumbing technicians for the challenges they will

Meet Amanda Yang, NexTech Academy’s Instructional Designer
Amanda Yang, NexTech’s instructional designer for the HVAC curriculum follows her passion every day. She loves instructional design so much, she created a course to

Useful Tips for Your New Plumbing Technicians
Among the very best things an employer can hope to see in a new employee is genuine excitement to get started. Few employees are more

How to Share Feedback With New Technicians
Improvement for new electrical, HVAC and plumbing technicians can come in many forms. Often, electrical, HVAC and plumbing owners such as yourself will turn to

Big Changes in How Users Engage With NexTech
For long time blog readers, you know that NexTech Academy surveys students and training leaders as they progress from one level to the next. Why?

Meet Corinne Hall, Electrical Technical Coach for NexTech Academy
How did you get into your trade? In high school, I didn’t even know the trades existed. Maybe that was my own lack of awareness

Ideal Soft Skills for Home Service Technicians in the Plumbing and HVAC Industries
Wouldn’t it be grand if fixing an issue was all that was expected of you as a plumbing technician or HVAC technician? Obviously, it would