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How Associations Are Embracing Apprenticeships

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Check out a few examples of associations big and small offering such programs for their respective industries. The Rhode Island Marine Trades Association has an apprenticeship program that specifically targets high schoolers. Apprenticeships are growing in importance.

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A Case for the Association Summer Internship

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The intern will have the opportunity to work in five different departments at SHRM … Communications work will be involved in most assignments. The position requires a candidate with: • excellent verbal communications skills. There also will be assignments involving government affairs/lobbying, research, and office administration.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.9.21

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The training of frontline (public-facing) employees has traditionally been the purview of a company’s HR department or, as with alcohol service training, for example, outsourced to a for-profit specializing in that niche. Director, Strategic Marketing & Communications, America’s Blood Centers. Office myth. Jeanette Brown, Sr.

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Prescription for Social: Group Issues Online Guidelines for Doctors

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As more and more doctors go mobile , professional healthcare associations are stepping in to help their members navigate the terrain of online communication and social networking. using digital means to communicate with colleagues about patient care. The guidelines also address the potential benefits and drawbacks of.