Future-Proofing the Rural Broadband Workforce

According to Joshua Seidemann, vice president of policy for NTCA-The Aural Broadband Association, many rural telccs are working to address the same issue: how to best recruit and train the rural workforce of the future. The statewide trade association has forged a formal broadband technician skills...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inRural Telecommunications Vol. 38; no. 4; pp. 28 - 31
Main Author Oates, Bryce
Format Journal Article Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington National Telephone Cooperative Association 22.09.2019
National Telephone Cooperative
Subjects
Apprenticeship
Broadband
Broadband transmission
Certification
Collaboration
Communications industry
Communications networks
Community
Community colleges
Cooperatives
Curricula
Educational technology
Employees
Employment
Hiring
Human resources
Labor supply
Public sector
Retirement
Rural areas
Rural schools
Rural telecommunication
Skills
STEM education
Students
Technical colleges
Telecommunications services industry
Trade associations
Training
Trends
Workers
Workforce
United States > US
Tennessee
Wisconsin
Online AccessGet full text
ISSN0744-2548

Cover

More Information
Summary:According to Joshua Seidemann, vice president of policy for NTCA-The Aural Broadband Association, many rural telccs are working to address the same issue: how to best recruit and train the rural workforce of the future. The statewide trade association has forged a formal broadband technician skills and training partnership with the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College (WITC) and Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD). The human resources manager said that she expects Twin Lakes to deepen this partnership with local workforce training efforts in the future. [...]FCC Chair Ajit Pai recently appointed WSTA to the commission's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee Working Group on Job Skills and Training Opportunities.
ISSN:0744-2548