- The Human Resource (HR) manager hiring an hiring an apprentice student expects that the apprentice student, although untrained or entry-level technician at hire, can develop into a highly skilled technician.
- The most weighted factor that turns an apprentice student’s development into a highly skilled technician is tenure/work-experience; it takes an average of 12.7 years for an untrained technician to be a highly skilled technician.
- Required experience at each stage is untrained→entry-level technician: 2.6 years, entry-level technician→mid-level technician: 4.0 years, mid-level technician→highly skilled technician: 6.1 years
- Total experience/tenure required by NCS major categories are Machinery: 13.7 years, Management/Accounting/Clerk and Electrics/Electronics: 12.2 years, Materials: 12.0 years, IT: 11.5 years, Culinary service: 10.2 years, in order.
- For an apprentice student to mature into a highly skilled technician effectively settled in the labor market, it is necessary for corporations providing apprenticship to indicate the career development path in the standard employment contract. Furthermore, by designating the career development path as a criteria, there is a need to improve the policy to allow apprentice students to join a company where they can mature.