Events & News
Apprenticeship is Not Generational
Where to start? There has been a lot of chatter in the last year or so regarding Gen X, Gen Y, and now Gen Z and their relationships to career trajectories. Gen Z has been coined “the toolbelt generation” or similar descriptions because, in large numbers,...
I’m Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud…
The awkwardly named “One Big Beautiful Bill” has been signed and, for now, takes aim specifically at certain sectors of the electrical industry. If you are a solar contractor, particularly residential solar, or EV charger installer, battery backups,...
The Newest Buzzwords: Career Ready
Spoiler Alert- the Trades have ALWAYS been Career Ready. In an effort to keep a long story tolerable, let’s remember a bit of American (United States) history that sets the table for where we find ourselves now… In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth,...
Licensure and Exams: Know Before You Go
IEC Chesapeake has received a letter we feel is important to share with YOU. IECC is a fully accredited, state certified, registered electrical apprenticeship program. As such, we are recognized by Maryland as a Registered Apprenticeship Sponsor. The state’s recent...
Is it an Electrical Apprenticeship or an electrical class??
Yes…both are cars. However, they are drastically different from each other in performance and what they can offer. Both will also hold drastically different values moving forward. The same can be said for an Electrical Apprenticeship Program versus an electrical...