Originally published by Sarah McGrew of TMJ4.
Tiffany Tillis worked as a bartender and a server for 10 years. Then, the pandemic hit.
“Because of COVID, I was looking for something that was essential and I had just been laid off,” Tillis said.
That’s when she stumbled upon Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership (WRTP) | BIG STEP, a workforce intermediary providing pathways to and through apprenticeships in construction and manufacturing.
“People are able to access not just our services, but get through those training programs quickly and enter in to their chosen career in as early as eight to 10 weeks,” said WRTP | BIG STEP President and CEO Lindsay Blumer.