• Minnesota Registered Apprenticeship and Workforce System Alignment Assessment

    The Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry, working with the Department of Employment and Economic Development, is taking an honest and comprehensive look at how well registered apprenticeship and Minnesota’s workforce system work together. What you tell us will shape the guides, training, and policy recommendations that come out of this project over the next year. This is not a test, and no one is being graded. We are asking what you know and what you do not know, because the gaps are exactly what we need to find. If your answer to most of these is "very little," that is genuinely useful and it is what we need to hear. It takes about 14 minutes. You can skip any question. Your individual answers stay confidential and are reported only as combined totals. Questions about this assessment: Gerri McGimpsey Gerri.McGimpsey@state.mn.us

  • SECTION A: ABOUT YOU

  • A1. Which one of these best describes the organization that employs you?*
  • A1b. Does your organization do any of these? Pick all that apply.*
  • A1c. Are you based in a CareerForce location?*
  • A2. Which of these describe what you do day to day? Pick up to two.*
  • A4.  How long have you worked in this field?*
  • A5.  Which industries do you work with most? Pick up to five.*
  • A6.  Before today, had you heard of registered apprenticeship?*
  • A7.  In the last 12 months, roughly how many conversations have you had with an employer, intermediary, job seeker, or partner about registered apprenticeship?*
  • A8. Is your organization currently receiving any of these work-based learning grants? Pick all that apply. (Note: Some of these are registered apprenticeship grants and some are other work-based learning grants. Check every one your organization holds.)*

  • SECTION B: WHAT YOU KNOW RIGHT NOW

    For each one, pick the answer closest to how you would rate yourself today. There is no right answer and nothing here counts against you. Honest low ratings are more useful to us than generous ones.
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  • B1. Registered Apprenticeship

  • B1. Overall, how would you rate your knowledge of the following?*
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  • B2. How the systems connect

  • B2. Overall, how would you rate your knowledge of the following?*
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  • B3. Paying for it

  • B3. Overall, how would you rate your knowledge of the following?*
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  • B4. Talking about it and building partnerships

  • B4. Overall, how would you rate your knowledge or ability of the following?*
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  • SECTION C: MINNESOTA SPECIFICS

  • C1.  How clear is it to you what each of these organizations does on apprenticeship?*
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  • C2. Your knowledge of how a registered apprenticeship program gets listed on Minnesota’s Eligible Training Provider List through DEED’s provider portal.*
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  • C3.  Minnesota has several earn while you learn programs and they get mixed up all the time. For each one, tell us where you stand.*
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  • C4. Which of these ways of paying for parts of an apprenticeship do you know about?*
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  • C8.  Do you know who to contact at DLI or Apprenticeship Minnesota with an apprenticeship question?*
  • C9.  Do you know who to contact at DEED or your local board about WIOA funding for an apprentice?*

  • SECTION D: WHAT YOU AND YOUR ORGANIZATION ACTUALLY DO

  • D1.  In the last 12 months, have you referred anyone to a registered apprenticeship program?*
  • D2.  In the last 12 months, has your organization enrolled a registered apprentice in a WIOA program, meaning co enrollment?*
  • D3.  If yes, roughly how many?
  • D4.  Which WIOA funding or services has your organization used to support a registered apprentice? Pick all that apply.*
  • D4b. When your organization serves someone who is a registered apprentice, how does that get recorded in Workforce One (WF1)? Pick all that apply.*
  • D4d. Do you know whether any of your apprentices are also enrolled in a WIOA program?*
  • D5.  When your organization serves a registered apprentice, how confident are you that the co enrollment is recorded correctly in the state reporting system?*
  • D6.  Does your local plan, policy, or performance goals name registered apprenticeship in any specific way?*

  • SECTION E: WHAT GETS IN THE WAY

  • E1.  Here are reasons registered apprenticeship and the workforce system may not connect well in Minnesota. For each one, tell us how much of a barrier it is where you work.*
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  • E2.  Of everything above, which one would make the biggest difference if it were fixed in the next 12 months?*

  • SECTION F: WHAT WOULD ACTUALLY HELP

  • F1. Which of these would help you most? Pick up to three.*
  • F2.  What format works best for you?*

  • SECTION G: STAYING INVOLVED

  • G1. Would you be willing to join a 45 minute conversation later this year to go deeper on this?*
  • G2. Would you or your team be interested in training on registered apprenticeship and WIOA in early 2027?*

  • G3. If you answered yes or maybe to either question, or if you would like a copy of the findings, leave your details here. This is optional.

  • Thank you. That was very useful.

    What you told us goes into a barrier analysis for DLI and DEED this fall, and it shapes the guides and training built over the following year. If you think of something after you hit submit, send it to Gerri McGimpsey, DLI, Gerri.McGimpsey@state.mn.us. We would rather hear it late than not at all.
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