The UPCT program is an earn-and-learn, pre-apprenticeship in which entry-level trainees work full time retrofitting homes and small businesses while learning skills and preparing for civil service exams and career opportunities in the utility and in the skilled trades.
This response affirms that mid- and entry-level trainees in the pipeline grapple with the same issues more senior trainees face.
What is different, however, is the early training levels at which they have been reported to be important, indicating the impact of these issues on entry-level trainees in making decisions about entering the pipeline and persisting to advanced levels.
How well-received would a recently-graduated, newly-hired entry-level management trainee be if she started surfing eBay for Prada shoes in the middle of a monthly department meeting, no matter how boring the meeting?
On the more experimental side, we have a program for entry-level management trainees called Lost in Space, whereby we hire a couple of people every year who have no job description at all.
Starting next June, Chase Manhattan, Citibank and Manufacturers Hanover Trust will offer an annual total of 250 entry-level jobs - tellers, computer trainees and clerical assistants - to graduates of Thomas Jefferson, Franklin K. Lane, Bushwick, East New York Vocational and William Maxwell High Schools.
It was put in place for entry-level roles, such as trainees and apprenticeships, last year, and expanded in April to all vacant positions at the BBC on an optional basis.
Multiple mini-interviews have been used to assess non-cognitive characteristics of entry-level students and latterly postgraduate trainees, and were an assessment innovation based on the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) format [ 10].
These are entry-level jobs".
Entry-level costs are modest.
