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R.I. has everything needed to make great sales pitch

We are all both proud of our state and sometimes critical of various sectors that can be improved. I have long been somewhere between...
PROGRAM ­SUCCESS: Amy Grzybowski, vice president of workforce development and ­community relations at New ­England Institute of Technology, says the success of its surgical technologist pilot program allowed it to become a registered ­apprenticeship. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Surgical technologist pilot turned apprenticeship helping hospitals fill vacancies

In the operating rooms of Rhode Island hospitals, the work moves fast. Scalpels are handed off, instrument trays are counted and procedures unfold with...

DiPrete Engineering, Building Futures launch R.I.’s first land surveyor apprenticeship

CRANSTON – In recent times, it’s been difficult to find qualified field surveyors – both at DiPrete Engineering Associates Inc. and throughout the U.S. It's a...

Building Futures gets $3.7M in federal funding

PROVIDENCE – Building Futures, a nonprofit that works to leverage apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs as it expands pipelines to career opportunities for low-income communities...
PLENTY OF PROJECTS: Jonathan Yaghjian, left, project manager, and Kurtis Quinn, a carpenter apprentice with Cranston-based Pariseault Builders Inc., work on the Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority House on the University of Rhode Island campus in South Kingstown. While many businesses were forced to close their doors 
for much of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Pariseault continued to work on a number of multimillion-dollar projects. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Builders: Have work, will train

Although the COVID-19 pandemic kept many Rhode Islanders close to home for much of 2020, Pariseault Builders Inc. didn’t slow down. With construction deemed an...
Jim Wilkinson has been in the lawn fertilization business for almost 50 years, but it wasn’t always easy to make ends meet, especially when he started out as a teacher of golf course management at the college level. After working in the corporate world, he decided to create SeaScape nearly 25 years ago. It now has more than 10,000 customers in southern New England. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Investing in people yields the biggest returns

Jim Wilkinson | SeaScape Inc. founder and president Believe it or not, lawn technicians aren’t usually known as the biggest power players in the room....
Strong staff: Vertikal6 staff in a network design meeting. From left, in background clockwise, James Green, systems engineer; Jonathan Essex, engineering manager; Drew Hill, field service engineer; Joe Lefrancois, senior network engineer; and Dean Gerjets, dedicated service engineer. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

‘Solid company culture’ empowers team at Vertikal6

Small companies, 1, Vertikal6 Employees in R.I.: 27 Rick Norberg, CEO Vertikal6 CEO Rick Norberg is so committed to employee engagement that he states it right...

Vertikal6 Formalizes Apprenticeship Program with Apprenticeship RI

Career Day Event Set For June 19 to Meet and Interview Interested Candidates Vertikal6 is excited to announce that they have launched a one-year Registered...
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