Students earn NIMS credentials
Students earn NIMS credentials
At Swiss Hills Career Center, the goal is to prepare students for a rewarding and profitable career immediately following their high school graduation. One of the ways we are helping make our students valuable to employers is through NIMS credentialing.
NIMS stands for the National Incident Management System. One of their programs is to certify manufacturing skills, providing reassurance to employers that the person they are hiring has a certain level of expertise. Having NIMS credentials makes our students significantly more valuable and attractive in the workforce. According to NIMS, their credentials “are earned by students, trainees, apprentices, employees, and military personnel nationwide and around the world. By earning NIMS credentials, these individuals secure a competitive edge when applying for jobs because they have demonstrated that their skills meet the industry-established standards. And NIMS credentials never expire.”
Because this credentialing program is new to SHCC, our instructors are not yet certified – they are learning along with our students. Instructors from the Robert C. Byrd Institute at Marshall University in West Virginia visited Swiss Hills to credential students and instructors Chris Bilyeu and Sam Langsford in engineering and manufacturing.
The Byrd Institute will return next year as well, but as Mr. Bilyeu and Mr. Langsford earn their own credentials, they will be certified to take over the process at Swiss Hills in the 2022-2023 school year.
