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Job seekers who visit the CalJOBS website can now find Proficia listed as a training provider. Proficia offers three 10- to 12-week pre-apprenticeship programs in technical fields: web development, data analytics, and computer-aided drafting. The goal of each program is to prepare trainees to go into an apprenticeship or work-based…
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Community College Students Pitch Their Tech Portfolios to Employers For the past three months, ten LA-area community college students have been building skills in electronics, embedded programming, computer-aided drafting (CAD), and rapid prototyping. The students participate in weekly hands-on courses with Proficia’s instructors, meet one-on-one with technical mentors and career…
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People often focus on what’s happening at the national level of government, but local government has a great deal of influence on our daily lives in less dramatic ways. Local government initiatives can improve the quality of life for local residents, but they also create jobs and opportunities for small…
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Authors: Sebastian De Vivo and Jocelyn Graf The City of Los Angeles has released Building L.A.’s Tech Talent Pipeline: A Sector Report on the Information Technology Industry, a report focusing on the state of the tech workforce in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in 2017. Download the report. With unprecedented…
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Jocelyn Graf, the principal consultant at Proficia, has been doing research in policy related to education and work issues for over 15 years. Her work spans academic study, labor activism and human resources management, and training program design and implementation. Graf’s study of work-based learning started when she worked as…
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Highly motivated community college students often focus on transferring to a four-year university to earn a traditional bachelor’s degree. But the community colleges are also a great place for talented students to learn a skill and then move directly into a job. Community colleges are more affordable than four-year schools…
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Proficia is launching a social enterprise to create tech jobs through an apprenticeship with engineers. Over the summer, we trained our first cohort of electronics technicians. Some have decided to return to college, and we have helped others find jobs. One of the trainees will be joining the Proficia engineering…
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React Native is growing in popularity as a framework for creating mobile apps because it gives the user a native look and feel on both iOS and Android. Knowing React Native gives developers a way to simultaneously create native apps across both platforms. From the employer perspective, this can reduce…
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To draw on Proficia’s expertise in setting up technical workforce training, LA Cleantech Incubator (LACI) approached us to help build upon their partnership with the LA Youth Policy Institute (YPI). The goal was to provide YPI’s young people with opportunities to learn skills for immediate employment within the unique setting…
