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Cybersecurity Apprenticeships: Bridging the 700K Skills Gap
Faced a 700K cybersecurity gap, apprenticeships offer a vital solution. Craft's platform streamlines compliance, tracks technical skills, and scales programs, effectively training the next generation of cyber professionals.
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Transform Apprenticeship Success with Student-Centric Design
Revolutionize apprenticeships by adopting student-centric design. This approach provides learners with transparent progress and mentors with tools for proactive support, driving engagement, faster competency, and better program outcomes.
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Logistics Apprenticeships: Solving the Supply Chain Crisis
The e-commerce boom has created a logistics crisis and workforce shortages. Work-based learning and apprenticeships offer a proven solution, boosting retention and solving talent gaps. Craft Connect simplifies program management.
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Modernizing Manufacturing Apprenticeships for Industry 4.0 with Craft
Industry 4.0 is reshaping manufacturing, creating a 2.1M job gap due to outdated training. Modern digital apprenticeship platforms like Craft Connect provide real-time data, compliance, and multi-employer solutions to build a skilled workforce.
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Workforce Learning Platform Migration: A Strategic Guide
Avoid chaos during platform migration with this strategic guide. Learn the 5 key pillars: Discovery, Data Prep, Phased Planning, Stakeholder Engagement, and Validation, to ensure a seamless transition and stronger programs.
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Data-Driven Decisions: Analytics for Work-Based Learning
Discover how data-driven analytics transforms work-based learning. Overcome disconnected systems, achieve continuous compliance, and optimize apprenticeship programs with real-time insights and a single source of truth.
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Multi‑Employer Apprenticeship Platforms: Features that Matter
Run multi‑employer apprenticeships at scale: role‑based access, portable records, batch ops, real‑time dashboards, DOL‑ready exports, and secure integrations to reduce friction.
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Modernizing Financial Services Apprenticeships with Free Platforms
Financial services struggle with outdated apprenticeship systems, compliance, and coordination. Learn how free, modern platforms like Craft offer enterprise-level solutions to automate paperwork, track progress, and ensure audit-ready reporting, bridging skill and compliance gaps efficiently.
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WIOA Reporting Errors: Automation for Accuracy & Cost Savings
Spreadsheet errors plague WIOA/RAPIDS reporting, leading to audit findings, delays, and high costs. Manual tracking creates data integrity gaps, single-person dependencies, and privacy risks. Automation offers a solution by standardizing data, providing digital sign-offs, and ensuring audit-ready evidence, saving time and money.
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Energy Sector Apprenticeships: Smart Training for the Green Transition
Discover how energy sector apprenticeships power the clean transition, tackle workforce gaps, and enable smart, compliant training for renewable energy jobs.
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IT Apprenticeships: Fast-Track Tech Talent & Free Compliance Tools
IT apprenticeships are surging, offering hands-on learning, free compliance tools, and real-time tracking to help companies build and retain skilled tech talent.
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Transportation Apprenticeships: Automated Tracking for Logistics Workforce
Craft Connect’s free platform automates apprenticeship tracking for transportation, boosting compliance, efficiency, and workforce development.
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Modern Construction Apprenticeships: Seamless Progress Tracking with Craft
Craft Connect makes tracking construction apprenticeships easy, with mobile access, real-time feedback, and free tools for every job site and role.
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Teacher Apprenticeships: Aligning Evidence for EPP Accreditation
Teacher apprenticeships need unified systems to track progress, evidence, and compliance—helping EPPs meet accreditation and prove program impact confidently.
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Breaking Down Data Silos: Portable Learning Records for Workforce
Portable learning records end data silos, making workforce programs efficient, audit-ready, and learner-focused—driving higher completion and real job readiness.
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Workforce Boards Need Real-Time Dashboards, Not Shadow Spreadsheets
Workforce boards struggle with fragmented data and slow reporting. Real-time dashboards offer instant insights, drive impact, and eliminate shadow spreadsheets.
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A Practical Guide to Workforce Development Month: Track Outcomes, Share Impact
Post Summary: Learn how to celebrate Workforce Development Month, track outcomes, and use tools like Craft to show real impact for job seekers and programs.
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5 Signs Your Apprenticeship Program Has Outgrown Spreadsheets
5 signs your apprenticeship program has outgrown spreadsheets: version control chaos, reporting nightmares, security risks & more. See how Craft helps programs achieve 95%+ rates.
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What America’s Talent Strategy Means for Apprenticeships, Data, and Efficiency
The recently released America’s Talent Strategy: Building the Workforce for the Golden Age lays out an ambitious plan to transform how the U.S. prepares its workforce for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
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