apprenticeship is based on the german educational model and he even gets paid enough in the us where apprenticeships are often unpaid provide only basic training and have a bad reputation but cold believes this program is a gateway to success this definitely gives me a jumpstart you know getting ahead of the ball and everybody else because i'll be having an associate degree the same time as people who just have a high school diploma e.g. o. is only one of twenty eight businesses and join john that have joined forces to create their own pool of highly skilled workers for them embracing the german apprenticeship model means addressing one of the biggest problems in u.s. manufacturing we cannot find workers out there that have the basic skills as an industrial mechanic a machinist electrician any of the true vocational trades that we used to create in america forty fifty years ago the german system is is a really good example for a model to follow the apprenticeship you have in germany one hundred years old