On behalf of the SMACNA/SMART Best Practices Market Expansion Task Force, the International Training Institute (iTi) surveyed more than 3,800 industry apprentices to gather demographic information and ascertain how they learned about the sheet metal industry, their experiences in the industry and their perceptions of it.
The Best Practices Task Force is using the information gained from the apprentice surveys to develop recruitment tools, programs and strategies that can be used by labor and management groups at the local level. Realizing the value of this data, an overview of the survey is now being shared with all chapter executives and volunteer leaders as well as SMART Business Managers. Please see smacna.org/news/latest/archive/2021/03/11/best-practices-task-force-shares-apprentice-surveys for the survey overview and results. For more information about the survey or the Best Practices Market Expansion Task Force, contact Maggie Powers, Assistant Director of Labor Relations, at mpowers@smacna.org. ■
