Business View Magazine Feb 2023

97 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 2 improvement. “If you were learning and developing a skill, whether it be one that falls on the vocational or academic side, it was education and learning is lifelong,” he relays. “Like Mike Rowe, I absolutely hate the term higher education, because that infers that everything that isn’t is lower. Most of the jobs in Alaska don’t require a college degree. You can make exceptionally good money with benefits and retirement and have huge careers in technical- based or vocational-based occupations.” NIT is programmatically accredited by the National Center for Construction, Education, and Research (NCCER) to teach many different trades, and Crum suggests that the programs the company could offer are far more plentiful than the ones currently available. “As for the courses that we offer, really, the outcome needs to be a job,” he explains. “What we are focusing on is based on our local economy right now, and what is most needed.” WE BRING THE POWER. For 43 years, Carlile has been the horsepower delivering what it takes to make your projects successful. NORTHERN INDUSTR I AL TRA INING, ALASKA