Two “Bright Outlook Occupations” Training Programs

MTTI’s 9 short-term, hands-on career training programs are reviewed twice each year by employers and industry specialists. Their feedback helps us continuously update curricula to ensure that the programs are producing graduates with marketable skills. While we continue enrolling only for those programs that have positive employment outcomes, certain industries are projected to grow much faster than average. Computer User Support Specialists and Medical Assistants are two Bright Outlook Occupations. Bright Outlook occupations are expected to grow rapidly in the next several years, or will have large numbers of job openings.1

During this unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, many competent, talented workers have been furloughed temporarily or laid off indefinitely. If you are newly out-of-work, or just looking for a change of career, you may want to explore training for a Bright Outlook occupation in our Computer Service Technician / Network Installer or Medical Assistant training programs. While no industry is immune to down-sizing, many of our graduates in the IT and healthcare industry have been filling essential roles during the COVID-19 emergency.

If, after reading about some of these graduates, you would like to find out from a Financial Aid Representative what financial aid you may qualify for, please email us at: info@mtti.edu or call 508-336-6611. An Admissions Representative will answer your questions about the programs.

We also invite you to join us for a free & friendly Virtual Information Session about Career Training on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 (6-7 pm). To attend, please email you name, telephone number and email address to Rick Shaw: rshaw@mtti.edu. Rick will send you the link to the free online session.

1https://www.onetonline.org/find/bright

MTTI Medical Assistant Graduates Working During COVID-20

2019 Graduate Devon Gomes and 2020 Graduate Ian O’Hern each work in practices that include newborns and babies. Ian says, “Babies have to be kept up-to-date with shots. We wear protective equipment including masks and goggles.” Devon tells us, “We’re learning to provide for patients in new ways—taking it day by day. Medical practices can’t shut down.”

Amanda DaSilva, another 2019 Medical Assistant graduate, works for a Primary Care practice. She says, “The COVID-19 situation has been scary. However, we are fortunate that where I work, we are well equipped with the essentials to continue providing patient care. Especially now, being able to provide care to those in need is very rewarding.”

Ian tells us, “Learning hands-on to give injections and perform blood draws in MTTI’s program was good preparation for what I am doing in practice.” Devon says, “I never expected to be front and center during a viral epidemic. School prepared me 100% to work as a Medical Assistant and to continue learning on the job. Despite the challenges of providing patient care during the COVID-19 epidemic, I still wake up with a smile, knowing I am going to be helping people.” Amanda adds, “Being a Medical Assistant is a great career choice. At MTTI you learn everything you need to get you started in the medical field. Once you’ve completed the Medical Assistant program, you’ll thank yourself and will be very proud of your accomplishments.”

Computer Service Technician / Network Installer Graduates Working During COVID-19

MTTI Computer / Networking Graduates also provide essential services, although they more likely have re-located from their employer’s physical site, to work from home. Kimberly Tink, a 2019 Graduate, was hired as a Solutions Engineer (Support Engineer) at Spade Technology, where she had completed her internship. Employed only months when the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic was recognized, she began helping her company set-up other workers at their homes, while she continued serving the company’s clientele from her own home. “At Spade, I am front-line in responding to tickets (troubleshooting requests) clients submit. Spade has clients in multiple industries: insurance, engineering, biotech, scientific research companies, law firms. Many of them have multiple locations and hundreds of employees; we can get hundreds of tickets in a week. I can schedule myself, or escalate it to have someone at a higher level resolve the issue.”

2015 Computer/ Networking graduate, Ryan DiMaio had just left a very comfortable position, supporting software used by primary care and medical specialty practices, to join a company that offered more opportunity to learn and an increase in pay. “I was still new in the position at Interbit Data, when the stay-at-home order was issued in Massachusetts. Fortunately, the company had agreed, when I was hired, that I could work part of the time at home. When COVID-19 hit, I wasn’t worried that I would lose my job. My concern was whether being home every work day would interrupt my training as a new hire. My colleagues and I have been sending each other messages and looking virtually at each other’s desktops. It turns out, it has actually been a pretty seamless transition for me.”

Kimberly Tink credits her MTTI Instructors who “went above and beyond” to help her earn the industry credentials—Test-Out, CompTIA A+ and CompTIA Network+-that she needed to successfully enter the IT industry. Although she came to MTTI with an impressive art, business, computer graphics and internet support background—she wasn’t getting interviews for the IT jobs she applied to. “I wanted to have a career in which I would receive the appreciation and recognition for my hard work, talent and skills. I found that, without the education behind you, companies won’t hire or pay you a good salary. Investing my time and money at MTTI completely changed my level of confidence and my employment prospects.”

Ryan’s experience with medical software at his first job was certainly an advantage when he applied to Interbit Data. “But in my interview, when I was asked about tasks and skills that I had not done at my first job, I was able to say I was familiar with them from my program at MTTI—for example, Active Directory, VOIP, faxing. Once hired, I was able to pick up on implementing certain systems—including seeing events in Windows, virtual printer set-up, drivers, installing programs and features—because I had learned about them at school. Interbit Data offers companies software automation solutions that provide secure access to patient information, so that clinicians and hospital staff can communicate easily and effectively with patients to manage their care. During COVID-19, when hospitals need our help to send out reports and information, there is an increased urgency. I feel grateful that, in addition to having put myself in a good place for my career, I am also helping healthcare providers who are working hard to save patients’ lives."

MTTI Education for Employment is Celebrating 35 Years

In 1985, area residents, Ward and Sharon Ring, began MTTI as a Workforce Program, bridging between employers experiencing shortages of skilled workers and unemployed or underemployed people needing marketable skills. Today they are joined by son, Eddie and daughter, Ali, who will bring the school and programs into the future.

MTTI is approved by the RI Council on Post-Secondary Education; accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC) and licensed by the Massachusetts Division of Professional Licensure, Office of Private Occupational School Education. The school is approved by the United States Department of Education for Title IV Financial Aid Programs. Financial Aid is available for those who qualify. We are also Veterans Friendly and an Approved Vendor of Rhode Island and Massachusetts One Stop Center.

For graduation and placement rates, median debt of graduates completing MTTI’s programs and other important information, visit:

https://www.mtti.edu/programs/program-consumer-information-links .

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