December 5th, 2007 by admin
Last week I had the opportunity to meet with one of our graduates. He just got back from a contract job in Beijing China. China!! He was working on the new U.S. Embassy building there. The contractor he was working with was installing the climate control and electrical for this building. The building itself is over 600,000 square feet. It’s HUGE!
The more I think about this industry, the more it amazes me at the directions it can take people. What was really cool about this guy is that he is only 22 years old. He has the rest of his life in front of him and he has already worked in China for a year. What’s next for him? What’s next for all of our graduates?
Our Career Development Director was just telling me today that based on conversations he has had with the industry and the shortage of technicians, there doesn’t seem to be a stopping point. How many careers can boast 6 months to entry and limitless opportunities? Just the fact alone that we had over 1000 job orders between January and September of this year, should make everyone stop and think.What could you do? Where could you go?
December 4th, 2007 by admin
The holidays are an interesting time of year. We find time to spend with family, rush around to go places, shop for gifts and so on. Then when all of that is done and we are left with the beginning of the next year looming in front of us, and we wonder what’s in store. What should we do now? How can we make things better next year?
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November 14th, 2007 by admin
Environmentalism. Conservation. Earth-friendly product. These buzzwords are heard almost everyplace today. If you ever watch the TV news or read your local newspaper, it seems that you can’t escape hearing about “saving the Earth.” And with good reason – alarming elevations in global temperatures mean our planet might be heating up too fast.
You might know this already.
But did you know that as a newly certified HVAC technician, you can be directly responsible for helping to save the Earth? Read the rest of this entry »
November 14th, 2007 by admin
Many of you have probably heard your relatives or friends worry about the stability of their jobs. Programmers fear that their work will get shipped off to India, where people with the same skills can work for half of the cost, and e-mail their projects back to the United States. Newspaper reporters worry that, as people look for their daily news on the Internet, they will lose readers and advertising dollars. I, myself, worked for a newspaper, and that paper today has fewer than half of the employees it did 20 years ago. Technology is something that has hurt many careers. Read the rest of this entry »
November 14th, 2007 by admin
Before students attended specialty trade schools, they usually got one-on-one training in that trade from someone they knew: a dad, an uncle, a neighbor. Refrigeration and HVAC careers are continuing to grow, though, and not enough people are skilled in this trade to provide every interested student with that personalized instruction.
So, if you’re interested in a career in HVAC, refrigeration, or air conditioning, where do you turn? Probably not to your Uncle Bob - but to someplace where you can learn the trade from instructors with experience in the field. Read the rest of this entry »
