apprenticeship jobs are highly competitive. to land one, a worker has to take tests, measuring aptitude for mathematics, machining, team work and communication skills. at this south carolina plant, r roxroth is only a dozen out of a staff of 100s. >> you need to have a strong head for matt, with the blueprints and tool offsets and different changes to programming. >> reporter: charles wilson is on the u.s. labor secretary's advisory committee for apprentices. he started to apprenticeship program in greenville tech after the industry of textiles collapsed, send mg manufacturing jobs overseas. >> when i saw people who had worked in textiles all their life, losing their jobs, i couldn't sleep some nights. i said, what can one person do to help. >> reporter: brett says he realizes how lucky he is to have gotten one of a coveted apprenticeships, especially car% unemployment rate. >> tremendous amount of people