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CQ#33: What are the benefits of vocational training?

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Education, of all kinds, has been a reliable engine for success by creating opportunities and putting the “impossible” within reach. And the kind of education most directly relevant to getting jobs and creating careers is vocational-technical training — training that upgrades or offers job skills in a particular trade, occupation or profession. Vocational-technical training offers the fastest turnaround from classroom to workplace, from new skills to paychecks. There are hundreds of promising occupations out there that you may not have thought of for people of every interest and aptitude. Vocational schools offer the high school graduate — as well as people who haven’t yet finished high school — practical, occupation-specific training. The setting is community colleges, trade schools, technical institutes, and junior colleges, some of them public, some private. And, of course, your own living room through online vocational training.


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