Below are 2 short interviews about the Office Services Specialist Apprenticeship from a recent video:

Hi, my name is Nikki Smith. I am the HR Manager at Gotion Illinois New Energy. We are an electric vehicle battery manufacturer. We also manufacture energy storage systems.

Why join the Apprenticeship Program?

To have this opportunity in manufacturing was really neat.  I’m in Human Resources, but we also have an Administration Department specifically so we have administrative specialists. So, we’re just starting up in our plant. We have I think 85 employees as of yesterday so we will have future Administrative Specialists needs so this is great that we have hourly employees that can learn these skills to fill our openings in the future.

Would you recommend to other employers?

Yes, I would definitely recommend this. It’s a great opportunity for them to be able to take classes, especially having Governors State involved and then I didn’t know even before they signed up that they will be able to take the certification exam at the end which that is huge. I’m taking the HR certification exam myself so for them to get to do this, this I thought that was amazing. Like this is an extra bonus for them. I’ve never heard of another apprenticeship offering this so I was shocked and amazed, happily  amazed that they get to do that.

Susanna Vargas, Apprentice

My name is Susanna Vargas. I work for Gotion and I work on the Quality Technician team.

Would you recommend to coworkers?

It would help them learn more communication skills with the coworkers and better understand each other.

Watch the video here.