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April 2024
This month, our focus is on Career Services at our largest campus – Houston, Texas. Our Career and Student Services Coordinator, Hillary Collins has been in this role for almost three years. She has done an incredible job assisting our students, from hosting employer speakers on campus like 24/7 Workforce, to helping set up job […]
April 2024
This month, our focus is on Career Services at our largest campus – Houston, Texas. Our Career and Student Services Coordinator, Hillary Collins has been in this role for almost three years. She has done an incredible job assisting our students, from hosting employer speakers on campus like 24/7 Workforce, to helping set up job […]
March 2024
Selecting the correct stick welding rod is essential for achieving strong, reliable welds and ensuring the success of your welding projects. By understanding your base metal, electrode diameter, welding position, flux type, amperage range, and welding environment, you can confidently choose the most suitable stick welding rod for each job.
April 2023
“Instructors can see when students are struggling. We talk to them, and they say ‘You wouldn’t understand.’ They’d be surprised. There was a point in my young life where I decided I was not being a good mom. I didn’t want to be trailer trash, and that’s really all I was going to amount to if I didn’t break the cycle and leave a bad situation. I worked my butt off because my kids deserved better, and I can pass that experience on.”
April 2023
“The real gratification in this job comes when former students stop by to share their success, like show off a new truck. I had a student named Jaylen Johnson who had the desire to learn. He moved through our curriculum probably twice as fast as the average student. He got a lot more than he paid for. The week after he graduated school, he went and took a pipe test. Now he’s a pipe welder running the roads making good money, rather than working a regular 9-to-5 job.”
April 2023
In the Hot Seat – 10 Questions with Tyler Sutton, Arclabs Welding Instructor Name: Tyler Sutton Title: Welding Instructor, Arclabs Welding School Location: Houston Campus, Texas Years Welding: 10 “We’re family here, it’s that simple. I speak for everyone when I say we all have each other’s back. If one of us goes into a […]
April 2023
“I had a potential student come in a wheelchair who thought he was never going to get a job as a welder. I said, ‘if you’re willing to learn, we can teach you.’ We fabricated a booth for him to use in his wheelchair. He was nervous, but as soon as he got in there, he just started soaking it in. That student, Larry Phillips, graduated from Arclabs with every process under his belt and is steadily working at the same company where he started when he graduated two years ago.”
April 2023
“I like changing people’s lives. It makes me happy when my graduates text me and let me know that they’ve started making money. I like seeing students that came into the school with not much of a future plan graduate from here with multiple opportunities for a better life. All my students are success stories.”
“It’s also rewarding when I figure out what words or technique finally helps a student achieve a great weld. We have a curriculum that we follow, but to take that criteria and help each student find their own style is special.”
April 2023
“My first job was a fabricator with a wide variety of welding. We never knew what work we’d be welding day to day. I did a lot of MIG welding at this shop. Then I became a structural welder at a nuclear plant and I was MIG welding aluminum pipe.”
Stick: “My dad taught me to Stick weld when I was a young teen. That’s when I knew I wanted to be a welder – I just loved it. I Stick welded at my first job in the fabrication shop working on dump trucks and trailers. Then I Stick welded for 3 years at a union structural and pipe welding plant.”
TIG: “We did a lot of TIG welding at the fabrication shop working on aluminum boats, furnaces, heat exchangers and more.”
Flux cored: “I welded stainless steel flux core on chemical vats used for pig dipping for a pig plant.”
April 2023
In the Hot Seat – 10 Questions with Jonathan Crompton, Arclabs Master Trainer Name: Jonathan Crompton Title: Master Trainer, Arclabs Welding School Location: Piedmont Corporate Office, Piedmont, SC Primary responsibilities: Crompton audits classes to ensure that instructors follow the school’s curriculum and students learn the skills required to be successful welders. Years Welding: X? “If […]
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