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A generation ago, during the period of rapid industrial expansion just after World War II, hundreds of industrial plants established operations In Georgia when they learned about its advantages-abundant land and water, plenty of energy, potentially booming markets and manpower.
In spite of a lack of skills, work experience and job-related education, Georgia workers proved themselves readily trainable and reliable in manning these new operations, and in keeping them productive.
Today, Georgia is taking dramatic steps to meet the challenge of the technological age by closing the job education gap. Schools and special job services geared to the increasingly complex needs of labor and industry now train over 115,000 Georgians annually in a full range of skills.
Through these new programs, new and expanding plants are staffed with personnel specially trained for their jobs. Workers with obsolete skills are retrained so that they can become productive once again. Men and women who are underemployed are upgraded into more fulfilling, better paying jobs. And perhaps most important, young people are given the chance to attend schools which offer an exciting array of career choices.

The backbone of Georgia's training effort is the network of twenty-five AREA VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL SCHOOLS located strategically throughout the state. More than ninety percent of Geor.gia's population is within driving distance of one or more of these modern, well equipped centers.
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING COORDINATO RS on the staff at each school work closely with firms in their areas, setting up training courses at industry's request.
Companies moving into Georgia and Georgia companies expanding their operations can receive training assistance through QUICK START, a totally state-supported program. The Quick Start program. is designed to train carefully chosen Georgians for specific, clearly defined jobs in a particular company. Georgia workers learn new skills, and the company realizes one of its principal o.bjectives: maximum productivity in minimum time.
For the established Georgia company desiring to upgrade or retrain its employees, all twenty-five area schools offer EXTENSION training. Employers determine skill shortages in particular occupations and specify the type of training desired. The State of Georgia does the rest, actually bringing high-quality instruction to the offices and plants where the trainees are located.

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No matter where a company locates in Georgia, an area vocational-technical school is nearby, ready to accommodate an almost unlimited variety of training requirements.
In Iittle more than ten years Georgia has built a $60 million network of twenty-five area schools. A far cry from the stereotyped trade schools, these new centers are modern, functional plants with classrooms and laboratories that equal those to be found anywhere in the nation. Laboratories are filled with a full range of equipment representing the most advanced areas of business and industrial technology.

Each of the twenty-five vo-tech schools is identified with the particular geographical area of the state it serves. School directors work closely with advisory committees of local business and industrial leaders in order to structure the curriculum of each school according to local work opportunities.

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Industrial training coordinators on the staff at each school also form a vital link with the business community. By staying in constant contact with area firms, the coordinators keep businessmen informed about the available services of the schools. As administrators of the personalized industrial training programs, the coordinators are specialists in knowing how to analyze job requirements, assess training needs, design course plans and coordinate training programs with company work schedu les.
As going concerns, Georgia's vo-tech schools are busy places. More than 100,000 Georgians annually come to these schools to take advantage of tuition-free training that equips them for today's technically demanding jobs.

Full-time day programs take from one to two years to complete, but students become qualified to enter the job market at almost any time. Local employers know that vacancies in their personnel ranks can be fillocl quickly from among the schools' current students and graduates.
The adult evening programs offered at the twenty-five schools enroll over 95,000 Georgians annually. Students of all ages and backgrounds attend these classes. Some are upgrading the skills they are already working with, while others are learning totally different skills to put themselves in line for jobs that did not exist only a few years ago.

The more than 16,000 young men and women attending the full-time day programs are studying secretarial skills, data processing, drafting and design, machine-shop and metalworking, and many other of the most needed skills and the newest technologies.

Ninety percent of the day students are high school graduates who have made positive career choices. Others without high school diplomas but with tale.nts worth developing can determine their aptitudes for modern careers through interviews and tests administered by counselors at the schools.

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The students in Georgia's vo-tech system are vitally important to business and industry. The annual TECH DAYS give a good indication of just how much. During this spring event, hundreds of potential employers visit the schools to interview students who are about to graduate. Many of these already skilled graduates are hired on the spot, to begin work as soon as they have their certificates in hand.
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quick start

Georgia's Quick Start program was inaugurated in 1966 to serve the manpower training requirements of new and expanding industry. Quick Start has al ready assisted the start-up operations of over 340 Georgia companies, and has trained over 46,000 Georgia workers in a variety of occupational skills.

What does this specialized training mean for new and expanding enterprises? Basically it means time and money saved. It means employees who know their work and what is expected of them even before they are hired. It means lower labor turnover rates. And it means higher productivity right away.

Under Quick Start, Georgia can:
Provide training specialists to design, develop, and coordinate a total training program at no cost to the company.
Provide instructional materials, including specially made training films, slides, manuals and tapes.
Recruit, screen and test potential trainees.
Provide qualified instructors and pay their salaries through all phases of training.
Provide convenient training sites in area vo-tech schools or share rental costs when other facilities are more feasible.
Arrange for the use of training equipment from the state's $20 million equipment pool.
Share costs of materials used In training.

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CONSULTATION AND ANALYSIS When a company selects a Georgia plant site, or a Georgia company elects to expand, the industrial training coordinator from the appropriate area vo-tech school and the State Training Coordinator from the Department of Education visit the home plant and consult with key company officials. Together they determine the company's manpower needs, job requirements, and start-up schedule so that the subsequent training program will produce the right number of skilled people at the right time.
THE TRAINING PLAN bnce all the training factors have been thoroughly discussed and agreed upon, the coordinators will design a training plan and submit it to the company for approval. The training plan will clearly spell out all costs to be borne by the State of Georgia, the contents and projected goals for each course, the course start and completion dates, the location of training and the methods to be used in recruiting and selecting trainees.

TRAINING FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT Suitable training facilities are set up in the area vo-tech school or, if more convenient to the plant site, in auxiliary facilities rented jointly by the State of Georgia and the company. The faci Iity is then equ ipped with production machinery comparable to the company's. Quick Start programs can draw on $20 million in equipment holdings at the twentyfive area schools and other installations throughout the state. However, the company may be asked to lend special purpose equipment. Many Quick Start programs utilize both state and company equipment.
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INSTRUCTION As soon as the facilities are properly equipped, competent, qualified instructors will be brought in and paid by Georgia to conduct the training classes. Often company personnel are borrowed to teach highly specialized skills. Georgia pays these instructors for teaching, and gives them an intensive course in technical teaching methods before they begin instruction.
TRAINEES Through the Georgia Employment Security Agency and the area vo-tech school, prospective employees are recruited, tested and screened in accordance with company specifications. Only those applicants who display the required characteristics are referred to the company for selection and enrollment. Trainees usually attend training sessions on their own time, without any training allowance or other compensation.
PRE-EMPLOYMENT TRAINING A two-phase training sequence is usually recommended. Phase one begins when company-approved applicants are given pre-employment instruction at the training facility in the school or near the plant site. This initial training consists of lecture and lab sessions which permit trainees to learn by listening and by doing. At the company's option, trainees mayor may not be placed on company payroll during this phase. Phase one is designed to give trainees a predetermined proficiency that will permit them to move directly onto the newly set up production lines and into phase two: on-the-job training.
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ON-THE-JOB TRAINING As soon as the company selects the trainees that it desires for employment, on-the-job training begins. These trainees are already sufficiently skilled to make an important contribution to the plant's operation, but they continue to sharpen their skills under the guidance of alert, statepaid instructors. On-the-job training is formally structured, with the trainees working toward predetermined performance goals. Training areas or stations may be set up in the plant to allow additional instruction to progress without interference with normal operations.
BUILD-UP TRAINING Quick Start's two-phase sequence of pre-employment training and on-the-job training is continued during the entire build-up period until maximum employment levels are reached. After the company has become established, Georgia's area vo-tech schools will provide other low-cost training services that will assist in keeping the company supplied with qualified manpower.
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ATTITUDE TRAINING A good training program trains minds and attitudes as well as hands. Georgia experts are well aware that job skills must be complemented by proper work attitudes if a training program is to accomplish its major goal: getting the company on a profit-making basis as soon as possible. Attitude training IS a built-in feature of every Quick Start program. At the outset, newly enrolled trainees are introduced to their potential employer through lectures and slide presentations about company history, products manufactured, the company's place in the industry and the company's prospects for future growth. Through this kind of knowledge, qualified trainees are stimulated to their best efforts during the training process and are given a sense of pride in a possible association with the company. A second sequence in attitude training occurs after the preferred trainees are selected for employment and have begun work. Each on-the-job trainee is carefully coached in getting along with other people-his fellow workers and his bosses. He learns the importance of his own job in relation to the over-all success of the plant, and he learns more about company customs, rules and regulations. The objective of attitude training is to create confident, able employees who take pride in their work and in their company.
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quick start success stories
BEKAERT STEEL WIRE CORPORATION Officials of the Bekaert Steel Wire Corporation, the world's second largest producer of drawn steel, are convinced they made a sound decision in locating their 120,000 sq. ft. plant in Rome, literally within sight of Coosa Valley Area Technical School. While the new plant was in the planning and building stages, Bekaert machines were installed in a special training lab at Coosa Valley Tech. Trainees were recruited and instructed in basic metallurgy, principles of drawing metal and specialized drawing techniques. When the new plant opened its doors, trainees and machines moved right in, to effect one of the smoothest start-ups on record. So successful is Bekaert's Rome plant that a new multi-million dollar expansion facility which will employ 100 additional people is already underway.
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CONCORD FABRICS INCORPORATED Concord Fabrics was primarily a distributing company prior to opening a new double-knit plant in Milledgeville. Beginning an entirely new manufacturing operation-in a community where there were no workers with the required skills-could have resulted in some costly missteps. But the people at Concord put their trust in the training experts at Macon Area Vo-Tech School. This trust has paid off. "Because of the training program," said a Concord official, "we will be able to get this plant producing and creating jobs much earlier than anticipated." Training began on three special company machines placed in a Milledgeville warehouse, with company personnel instructing trainees in machine operation and maintenance, basic electricity, fabric construction and machine knitting skills. Georgia shared the rent and utility costs for the training facility, paid the salaries of the instructors, recruited and screened the trainees, and provided a training specialist to design and coordinate the program. The people at Concord attribute a good portion of their success to the training program, and plan to focus their expansion to 100 machines around the continuing in-plant training services of the Macon Area School.
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RELIANCE ELECTRIC COMPANY Georgia's Quick Start program was a major reason Reliance Electric Company built its $15 million electric motor and controls assembly plants in Athens. Training specialists from Athens Area Technical School, along with Reliance personnel, worked out a training plan whereby Georgia would supply the plants with 1,000 specially trained employees over a four year build-up period. Since a highly skilled, highly diversified work force was the objective, pre-employment training for the start-up work force was scheduled in eleven job categories. These included metal fabrication, printed circuitry, and electronic testing. Electronic testing called for theoretical knowledge and required 192 hours of class and lab. The other courses were 44 hours in length. Of the 175 trainees initially enrolled for the start-up force, 152 completed the training courses and 146 were hired by the company. Supervisors from Reliance's staff were trained and paid by Georgia as training instructors. When the Athens plants opened their doors, many of the trainees moved onto the assembly lines to work under their former instructors. The supervisors agreed that the trainees were confident, knew their jobs well, and knew what was expected of them. The specially trained employees began at 20 to 50 percent efficiency level, but within a month some of them had reached the 100 percent level, an achievement, according to officials at Reliance, that ordinarily takes six months to a year.
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SOUTHWIRE COMPANY Southwire Company of Carrollton and the Carroll County Area Vo-Tech School have been successful training partners for some time. When company officials decided to add a new $29 million copper refinery to their wire making operations, they naturally turned to the area school for training assistance. Company management and the area school's industrial training coordinator put together a program to train 132 new employees in 55 different job categories including fork lift operation, maintenance mechanics, furnace firing and tending, and chemical testing. After each job was carefully analyzed, the coordinator worked out a master course plan synchronized with plant start-up and manpower built-up timetables so that each trainee took a graduated series of courses preparing him for his own job specialty. Final job specialization took place during the on-the-job phase of training. Southwire provided training rooms in the existing plant. Nine new plant foremen were trained and paid by Georgia to teach the classes. Southwire's Training Director adds, "Our philosophy of training local people has paid off handsomely-for us and for the community. The area schools are doing a fine job in helping small Georgia towns acquire a skilled work force."
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Extension Training is another service the area vocational-technical schools provide G e 0 r g i a I s business and industrial establ ishments.
By moving classes, instructors and training aids off the campus and into the business community, Georgia helps industry train employed men and women who want to upgrade their job skills.
Employers requiring special retraining and job upgrading courses for their employees need only contact the industrial training coordinator at the nearby area vo-tech school. The school will provide tailored courses and qualified instru.ctors, and the training coordinator will work out a convenient schedule of classes.
Classes are conducted in plant during or after working hours in such places as cafeterias and conference rooms. If space at the company plant is unavailable, the area school will provide classrooms on campus or in other convenient facilities. Courses vary in length from 10 to 150 hours, and subjects encompass literally dozens of occupational skills including accounting, blueprint reading, basic electricity, supervisory development, and math.

The cost of this service is minimal: a $5 to $15 per student supply fee. Georgia furnishes everything elseinstructors, films, slides, and a training specialist to coordinate the program.
During 1970 industrial training coordinators throughout the vo-tech system set up nearly 1,600 courses for business and industry. Of these courses almost 1,200 were taught in plant. Trainees numbered 26,685, with 85 percent of those enrolled completing the courses.

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A partial listing of extension programs and participating companies 1969-70.
COURSES
Air Measurement Airframes and Power Plants Electricity (Basic and Advanced) Blueprint Reading Brake Operation Ceramics Manufacture Chemical Technology Circuit Board Assembly Clerical Skills Data Processing Diesel Mechanics Electric Motor Repair Electric Motor Winding Electronics Engi neer-i n-trai ning Fastener Installation Fastener Torque Fiberglass Flocking Fiberglass Lay-up First Aid Fork-lift Operation Foundry Skills Gas liquid Chromatography Glazing Heavy Equipment Operation Industrial Safety Labor-management Relations Machine Maintenance Machine Shop Metal Finishing Metallurgy Modular Home Construction Paper Processes Plant Maintenance Press Operation Principles of Supervision Quality Control Sheet Metal Forming Sheet Metal Layout Small Engine Repair Technical Report Writing Welding
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COMPANIES
American Cyanamid B. F. Goodrich Babcock and Wilcox Bibb Manufacturing Blackstone-Georgia Foundry Boise-Cascade Citizens and Southern National Bank Chicopee Manufacturing Coats and Clark Collins and Aikman Cudahy Dawson Industries Deering Milliken Delta Airlines Dobbs House Douglas Foods Dundee Mills Eagle-Picher Federal Pacific Electric Foote & Davies General Electric General Motors Georgia Kraft Georgia Power Goodyear Great Dane Trailer Grumman Aerospace H. D. Lee Harris Press and Shear J. M. Tull Jordan Mills Kendall Levi Strauss Lilliston Lockheed-Georgia North American Rockwell Regency-Hyatt House Riegel Textile Schnadig Scientific Atlanta Southern Bell Thiokol Union Camp Union Carbide Uniroyal Universal Rundle West Point Pepperell Westinghouse Yancey Brothers

DIRECTORY OF AREA VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL SCHOOLS

ALBANY H. D. Waters, Director Alvin S. Sanders, Industrial Coordinator 1800 South Slappey Drive Albany, Georgia 30310 (912) 436-0395
AMERICUS (South Georgia) Dea Pounders, Director Ralph Thomas, Industrial Coordinator P. O. Box 1088 Americus, Georgia 31709 (912) 924-2981
ATHENS Robert Shelnutt, Director Bob Yongue, Industrial Coordinator U. S. Highway 29 North Athens, Georgia 30601 (404) 549-2360
ATLANTA Robert Ferguson, Director George DaLusky, Industrial Coordinator Earl Tolleson, Assistant Industri al Coordi nator 1560 Stewart Avenue, S. W. Atlanta, Georgia 30310 (404) 758-9451
AUGUSTA George Hardy, Director Howard Gorman, Industrial Coordinator 2025 Lumpkin Road Augusta, Georgia 30901 (404) 793-3470
BEN HILL IRWIN Lewis I. Brinson, Director David Malcolm, Industrial Coordinator P. O. Drawer M Fitzgerald, Georgia 31750 (912) 468-7487
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CARROLLTON (Carroll County Area) Jack Cox, Director Earl House, Industrial Coordinator P. O. Box 548 Carrollton, Georgia 30117 (404) 834-3391
CLARKESVILLE (North Georgia) James H. Marlowe, Director John Dillion, Industrial Coordinator Lake B1Jrton Road, Georgia 197 Clarkesville, Georgia 30523 (404) 754-2131
CLARKSTON (DeKalb Area) Travis E. Weatherly, Director Steve Sylvester, Industrial Coordinator 495 North Indian Creek Drive Clarkston, Georgia 30021 (404) 292-1525
COLUMBUS Perry Gordy, Director Jack Watkins, Industrial Coordinator 4460 River Road Columbus, Georgia 31904 (404) 327-1798
GAINESVILLE (Lanier Area) John G. McCormick, Director Buddy Ball, Industrial Coordinator P. O. Box 58 Oakwood, Georgia 30566 (404) 532-0191
GRIFFIN E. V. Langford, Director Larry Brindley, Industrial Coordinator P. O. Box 131 Griffin, Georgia 30223 (404) 227-1322

JASPE R (Pickens County Area) J. A. Harris, Director Herb White, Industrial Coordinator Jasper, Georgia 30143 (404) 692-2461
LAG RANG E (Troup County Area) R. H. Wynn, Director Cecil T. Talley, Industrial Coordinator Route 2, Whitesville Road LaGrange, Georgia 30240 (404) 882-2518
MACON Ben Brewton, Director Roger Greene, Industrial Coordinator 940 Forsyth Street Macon, Georgia 31201 (912) 743-6332
MOULTRIE W. W. Hobbs, Director Jimmy Holland, Industrial Coordinator P. O. Box 399 Moultrie, Georgia 31768 (912) 985-2297
MARIETTA L. L. Leverette, Director Ed Stelling, Industrial Coordinator 980 South Cobb Drive Marietta, Georgia 30060 (404) 422-1660
ROCK SPR ING (Walker County Area) Larry Little, Director Jim Key, Industrial Coordinator Box 454, Merry Meadow Lane Rock Spring, Georgia 30739 (404) 764- 1016
ROME (Coosa Valley Area) J. D. Powell, Director Pat Parker, Industrial Coordinator 112 Hemlock Street Rome, Georgia 30161 (404) 235-1142

SAVANNAH Carol Coons, Director O. R. McCarter, Industrial Coordinator 214 West Bay Street Savannah, Georgia 31401 (912) 236-3400
SWAINSBORO Maurice Boatwright, Director John Pascoe, Industrial Coordinator 201 Kite Road Swainsboro, Georgia 30401 (912) 237-6465
THOMASTON (Upson County Area) E. G. McCants, Director Emmett Presley, Industrial Coordinator P. O. Box 6 Thomaston, Georgia 30286 (404) 647-9616
THOMASVI LLE Paul Sewell, Director Ray Smith, Industrial Coordinator P. O. Box 6 Thomasville, Georgia 31792 (912) 226-3750
VALDOSTA Lamar Holloway, Director Gene Peacock, Industrial Coordinator Route 1, Box 211 Valdosta, Georgia 31601 (912) 244-2316
WAYCROSS Don Winters, Director T. R. Whiten, Industrial Coordinator 17-01 Carswell Avenue Waycross, Georgia 31501 (912) 283-1866
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to the businessman...
"Businessmen and industrialists are increasingly aware of the importance of manpower training in keeping their operations efficient and profitable. "Georgia's Area Vocational- Technical School System is designed to meet the skilled manpower needs of industry and the training needs of labor through versatile occupational programs, a widely dispersed network of training centers and modern instructional procedures. "We invite examination and comparison. Let Georgia show you these modern technical institutions. Examine for yourself the personalized training services they offer. We believe you will decide to do business in Georgia. "
Jimmy Carter Governor of Georgia
"The commitment of Georgia's Area Vocational- Technical System is clear: to provide the people of the state with the skills, attitudes and competencies compatible with the present and future needs of Georgia's employers."
Dr. Jack P. Nix State Superintendent of Schools
"Three billion dollars invested in Georgia for new and expanding manufacturing facilities since 1965-a strong indication of industry's endorsement of Georgia's occupational training programs. Georgia's twen tv-five Technical Training Schools rank with the best in the nation."
Lt. Gen. Louis W. Truman, U.S. Army (Ret.) Executive Director Georgia Department of Industry and Trade