'A gateway to a much better career'

Interested in exploring an apprenticeship? In this five-minute video, you’ll hear from companies and apprentices who’ve experienced firsthand benefits. From facilitating talent development and life-enhancing employee growth to promoting productivity and efficiency, you’ll learn how the apprenticeship model at Penn College has become a proven solution for addressing the skills gap.

"What we recognize is a skills gap in our industry and not just our industry, but really in manufacturing altogether," says Tiffany Loner-Diemer, West Pharmaceutical Services' senior manager of learning and development. "It's really critical now to build up apprentices and to build those apprenticeship programs because we're able to identify what are the skills that we need now – and what are the skills that we need later – so that we can prepare our current workforce to handle those jobs as more baby boomers retire."