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Four career changers share how they succeeded in a new trade. In January 2021, Matt McCallister, 36, was laid off. He’d been working as the manager of a flight school at New Castle Airport, and ...
Take a closer look at the myths that might be keeping you from a career in the trades. The average age for more trade workers, also known as blue-collar workers, is 47. That relatively high ...
Delaware has plenty of growing sectors in need of talent, but how can you get the skills for those jobs? The answer lies in a diverse landscape of trade schools and other college alternatives. These ...
The First State’s technical community college provides an easy stepping stone to careers. For adults seeking a fresh career start, a little extra education is often the ticket to success. In some cases, that “little ...
For many career changes, you will have transferable skills. When he graduated from Delcastle Technical High School in 2015, William Hickman knew he wanted to work with auto mechanics, but he wasn’t sure exactly where ...
Vocational-technical high schools are designed to give students a running start for a career in the trades and professions by providing them with special skills and training. Four recent graduates from different Delaware vo-tech schools ...
Whether you’re applying for an apprenticeship, an internship, a job or a work-based learning program, there are certain skills that employers — in any industry — will expect you to have. Those skills are things ...
Almost all high school students at some point become concerned because they have not yet settled on a career to pursue, or a path to pursue it — what do they want to do, what ...
‘The other four-year degree’ offers a career start without debt. Nearly 70% of Americans do not have college degrees, according to The Poynter Institute. “So you have a load of young people who are going ...
Specialized high schools provide a path into a vast variety of careers. Even as their course offerings are adapted to meet changing workforce needs, Delaware’s vocational-technical high schools follow a tried-and-true progression to prepare their ...
Pathways really are for everyone – college-bound or not. When some parents of tweens and teens first hear about the Pathways career program, they might think it’s not something meant for their child, whom, after ...
1440 Film Co.: Telling a Story Frame by Frame As a child, Mike Pfeifer typically carried a camera in his hand. “I was always making silly videos with my brothers, friend or whoever,” he recalls. ...
Delaware may be small in size, but it’s a giant in the fields of education and health care. The University of Delaware (UD) is categorized as an R1institution by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions in ...
Delaware’s agricultural industry is a powerhouse driven by traditional crops such as field corn, soybeans and potatoes and, most significantly, poultry. The state’s poultry processors, such as Mountaire Farms, Perdue Farms and Allen Harim, generate more ...
In Delaware, manufacturing is big business, with $3.63 billion in manufactured goods exported in 2020, according to the national association of manufacturers. It’s also an industry where innovation abounds. Take, for instance, ILC Dover, which ...
Delaware is known throughout the business world as a destination for companies to incorporate, thanks in large part to deep bench of law firms and corporate services providers already located here. Financial services companies abound ...
The science and technology industry in Delaware continues to prosper and expand for three important reasons: a collaborative community atmosphere at the corporate, governmental and academic levels; a long, historical record of successful innovation by ...
‘A very flexible model’ for innovators. A lawyer, a coder, a banker and a mom walk into a building. It’s not the opening of a joke – just an average day at The Mill. The ...
Pitch competition rewards next generation of innovators. Jayvon Fairman-Davis is living his dream: teaching kids chess as a full-time occupation. He has a bunch of sharks to thank for it. Davis, CEO and founder of ...
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