What is FIT?
Focused Industrial Training (FIT) is a special training program for North Carolina's manufacturing industries. FIT uses individualized needs assessments and consultations to design and implement targeted, customized training for organizations who need to upgrade workers' skills because of technological or process advances.
What companies qualify for FIT?
FIT is designed to serve the special needs of existing North Carolina industry. This program, along with the state's award winning training program for new businesses, keeps North Carolina's economy strong and healthy by keeping your company strong and healthy.
How does FIT work?
You identify a training need. Together, we decide the kind and number of classes needed to meet your training goals. FIT custom-designs specialized training for your employees. Low enrollment, limited to your workers guarantees more personal attention.
What jobs qualify for FIT?
FIT's focus is on critical skills that change as technology changes. Customized instruction will be directed toward skilled and semi-skilled production workers, industrial maintenance workers and leaders of personnel who perform industrial processes.
CIT - Customized Industry Training
The North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) has created the Customized Industry Training (CIT) Program to offer programs and training services as new options for assisting business and industry to remain productive, profitable, and within the State. The CIT Program provides the flexibility to meet the retraining needs for existing business organizations in North Carolina's communities. This program will augment the services of the New and Expanding Industry Training (NEIT) and Focused Industrial Training (FIT) Programs when their current guidelines do not apply.
Allocations are made on a case-by-case basis at the discretion of the NCCCS President with the recommendation of the Vice President of Economic and Workforce Development. The application procedure is in accordance with the intent and purpose of the legislation and budgetary support. This CIT program provides greater flexibility for the NCCCS to meet the retraining needs for existing business organizations in North Carolina's communities. It will provide more intimate contact with the existing industry base in both the rural and metropolitan areas of the state and will stimulate the economic vitality. The program benefits will provide greater responses to fulfill the needs of North Carolina's changing economy as industry sectors experience expansions and contractions within the global economic environment. Ultimately, the jobs saved or recovered by bridging the gaps will contribute to greater employment and productivity in the economy.
NEIT - New and Expanding Industry Training
Attracting and training a skilled and motivated workforce is crucial to any new or expanding company. No state has more experience helping companies with these important issues than North Carolina. The state pioneered free, customized job training for new and expanding businesses in 1958 and continues to provide the nation's most recognized customized job training service. Helping businesses maintain their competitive edge is a primary role of the North Carolina Community Colleges and their Customized Training and Development services. This specialized workforce training program has helped build success for companies that now call North Carolina home, and contributed to the multiple rankings that list North Carolina's business climate as one of the best in the nation. Eligibility for new and expanding industry training services is determined on a company-by-company basis. However, criteria for obtaining services are anything but complex. Typically, the services provided are based on the number of new jobs created, their skill and wage levels, and the level of total capital investment. Services are made available to companies that create 12 or more new jobs in any one community in North Carolina during a one-year period. Companies that have taken advantage of program services are diverse - from auto parts and electronics manufacturers to bio-technology companies and data processing centers. Training services provided to these companies may include instructors and training program development, customized video training programs, temporary training facilities, equipment, and supplies.
