CET's Fourteen Precepts
CET’s fundamental purpose is to provide effective training for individuals that prepares them for careers in high-demand industries. The program is comprehensive, individualized, and generally adaptable to each person’s needs, including removal of workforce barriers. The CET model is based upon the following 14 Precepts:
- Training is open entry and open exit.
CET offers rolling admissions; trainees can start once they have completed eligibility and financial aid appointments. New starts begin each week or as seats become available. - Training is tutorial and highly individualized.
The instructor/trainee ratio is approximately twenty-to-one. Trainees find their own pace through the curriculum, and advanced trainees tutor newly enrolled trainees. - Training emphasizes and promotes the development of good work habits.
CET’s Career Development curriculum emphasizes proper work habits and practices. Each skill division stresses the requirements of their specific industry. - Training and counseling are based upon the realities of industry.
CET partners with a wide section of businesses and hosts an Industrial Advisory Board to ensure classroom practices mirror the practices of the workplace. - Instructors are the primary counselors for trainees.
Instructors serve as “supervisors” in the employment simulation of each skill division. Trainees learn that the instructors are advocates to help them address barriers to employment. - No testing is required as a condition for entering training.
Trainees do not need a high school diploma or GED for enrollment, though federal student aid requires completion of secondary education. Adult Education instruction is available onsite.
- Trainees remain in training until they start work.
Trainees conduct their career searches in partnership with their Career Coach and other CET staff. Trainees only “graduate” upon obtaining employment. - Trainees who are absent from training are contacted by phone or through home visitation.
Trainees conduct their career searches in partnership with their Career Coach and other CET staff. Trainees only “graduate” upon obtaining employment. - Reality counseling by staff confronts trainees with alternative solutions, but leaves the final decision up to them.
Natural consequences are discussed, and critical thinking is encouraged. - Trainees conduct their career searches in partnership with their Career Coach and other CET staff. Trainees only “graduate” upon obtaining employment.
Trainees conduct their career searches in partnership with their Career Coach and other CET staff. Trainees only “graduate” upon obtaining employment. - Trainees conduct their career searches in partnership with their Career Coach and other CET staff. Trainees only “graduate” upon obtaining employment.
The Career Coach assists trainees with developing their professional skills, as well as resume and interview preparation and other job-search-readiness skills through the Career Development curriculum. - Training offered in a particular skill division expands and contracts with the job market for the skill.
The Career Coach assists trainees with developing their professional skills, as well as resume and interview preparation and other job-search-readiness skills through the Career Development curriculum. - Small administrative units coupled with small training teams of instructors enable all decisions relative to a particular trainee to be made at the working level.
Unit Teams meet weekly to discuss trainee progress or barriers and set specific plans in motion to address any concerns. - Home visitation (Alumni follow up) is intensified after job placement to help the trainees retain stable employment.
Follow-ups occur monthly for 12 months to assist the trainees with any problems at work and to provide additional assistance to find new employment as needed.
