How IT Apprentices Deliver Enterprise Impact from Day One
When you think “apprentice,” you might imagine someone in learning mode. But what if an apprentice could own deliverables, improve workflows, and raise the bar for your existing teams? That’s exactly what happened when Jared Jurss joined a cloud data engineering team at a leading northeastern insurance company through the WEI Technical Apprenticeship for Diverse Candidates program.
In this episode of WEI Tech Talk, Jared explains how he went from onboarding to owning core components of an Azure-based analytics pipeline—impacting business decisions at the executive level.
This conversation is a proof point: when apprenticeship is done right, it builds talent pipelines and raises team performance.
What IT Hiring Managers Will Learn:
- What to look for in a high-impact apprentice
- How to structure technical onboarding that leads to fast ROI
- Why mentorship and autonomy can multiply output
- How the WEI model embeds apprentices into enterprise environments
Episode Highlights:
- A cloud-native data mart on Azure, built from scratch
- Daily updates to a C-suite dashboard that previously ran monthly
- GitHub-based CI/CD practices for a team with zero version control
- Leadership and peer mentoring on a net-new cloud team
- Enterprise-ready results, delivered on deadline
Ready To Talk IT Talent?
Let’s explore how a WEI apprentice could strengthen your team and reduce time-to-impact for your next initiative. In the meantime, you may read the WEI IT Staffing Solutions overview document.
About WEI
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