Finding Talent

Employee Development & Apprenticeships

West LA College is dedicated to providing support to businesses and their new employees to ensure that companies have a continuous path of employee development. We’ve found that a structured approach works best, since it outlines tangible benchmarks for on-the-job learning and related training. It’s a new and innovative model for apprenticeships, where employers completely craft an individualized program based on their own needs. In our experience, when our companies work with us to support our students or recent hires as new employees, the new employee stays with the company for longer periods of time, is a higher-performing harder worker, and completes their degree or certificate program, making them more valuable to your company. West LA College takes care of all the apprenticeship registration paperwork and time and effort needed to ensure the employee completes the program.

Any employer in the state of California, or any state in the United States, can register with a West LA College apprenticeship program.

This means that if there is an employer who wants to start an apprenticeship program for their company, they can register under West LA College. West LA College can take care of all the DOL/DAS paperwork and monitor the progress of each apprentice. The “related technical instruction” can be provided by West LA College, another local community college, any online provider or Employment Training Panel Funds. West LA College creates documents to help employers track “on the job” training, assessing prior learning credit, and tracking the related technical instruction. We can register any occupation that the company wants! There are certain tax breaks and benefits companies receive for having DOL registered apprentices!

Any apprentices who registers with a company can count all the related technical instruction they received prior to registering as an apprentice.

This means if any employer has had an employee participate in ETP training, this would count towards an apprenticeship program. This means if the employee participated in any sort of training relating to the occupation (i.e. OSHA training, technical training, safety training, leadership classes, etc.), that would also count towards the apprenticeship completion. An apprentice only needs to complete 144 hours (minimum) in the apprentice, so if the apprentice has 144 hours of prior learning and are in an apprenticeship, then they have completed all the RTI hours even before they started the apprenticeship!