| dc.description.abstract | Our first partner, the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber, serves nearly 4,000 members and is focused on expanding the region’s talent base by harnessing the power of Cincinnati’s unique offerings. An additional partner in this endeavor is Total Quality Logistics (TQL). TQL is a freight brokerage firm founded in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1997. The purpose of this capstone project is to determine the effectiveness of an internally sponsored, cohort-based, apprenticeship program and its effects on IT talent pipelines within TQL. The data collected centered on two surveys. The first was a twelve-question employee satisfaction instrument (Appendix A). The second instrument was structured to mirror the fourth edition of the Career Anchors Self-Assessment designed by Schein and Van Maanen (2013) (Appendix B). Findings indicate that IT professionals at TQL primarily identify with the stability/security and lifestyle career anchors. | |
