Hello Dave,
I wanted to thank you for the white paper you gave me when I reached out while starting our apprenticeship program at my company and share the results of the program with you. We took on 3 apprentices for our program and the program went really well and we've hired all 3 as full time developers.
We got to train 3 people in our processes and business, they all contributed to projects during the program and at the end we had 3 new hires that were ready to go day one, who we knew could perform since they had already been contributing and had been trained in everything we wanted them to know. We've had a hard time hiring people in the past and this just went so smoothly -- even the time investment wasn't as bad as I budgeted for, really early in the program they were able to contribute small units of work to the point that my time investment was recouped by the work they were contributing back.
The way we modeled the program wa