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FEATURE

OPERATION

GRADUATION RECAP

D I had a chance to sit down with Janet Martin, SENIOR MARKETING
BY LYNN WRIGHT,

During the summer, hundreds of IEC
COORDINATOR, IEC
apprentices graduated across the U.S.
President of IEC, to hear about her journey on
Operation Graduation and her experience firsthand,
and IEC celebrated their hard work,
accomplishments, and bright futures
through Operation Graduation. Operation
Can you tell me a little bit about
Graduation followed 2021 IEC President plus all of the highlights from the summer!
Janet Martin and other representatives of your overall experience with
IEC as they traveled the country to speak Operation Graduation?
at several graduation ceremonies. Operation Graduation accomplished the following:
Our 2021 graduates have jobs, zero 1. Meeting the Chapter Board of Directors and
post-secondary education debt, and Executive Directors face to face and learning
rigorous training in safety on-the-job. how each chapter functions differently. Even
The job market is starting to roar back, though we are all part of the same IEC family it
but anxious college seniors are facing a was interesting to learn how different chapters
different reality than IEC graduates as operate but still accomplish the same goal
they struggle to find jobs while carrying across the nation to train apprentices and fill
mountains of college debt. the shortage of skilled labor in the electrical
industry across our great USA. From the Board

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