Business & Industry

Services provided through HCC’s Service and Industry Training includes: Occupational Continuing Education, Workforce Training, New and Expanding Industry Training, Focused Industrial Training, and Customized Training.

For over 40 years, HCC has been offering a non-credit alternative to citizens as they build or quantify their work-related skills. Currently, the college offers a wide range of support -- from plumbing certification to management level courses to Maintenance Technician.

Through HCC’s Business and Industry Training, participants can upgrade skills, develop new skills, prepare for licensures and certification, or attend management courses.

HCC provides customized employee training at area businesses.

Business & Industry provides:

  • Professional development
  • Corporate training
  • Manufacturing training
  • Workplace Violence
  • Programmable Logic Controllers
  • Safety & Environmental
  • Customer Service
  • Strategic Planning
  • Recertification Classes

Occupational Continuing Education

While start-up training assistance is significant, ongoing training support in North Carolina is truly unique. Once a business or manufacturing site is operational, HCC continues to serve as a training partner. North Carolina’s community colleges offer state-subsidized, low-cost training in more than 1,500 categories, available at the college or the company’s work site.

Preparing People for Work

Occupational skill training courses are designed for the specific purposes of training an individual for new employment opportunities, upgrading skills to meet new and changing job requirements and providing training which is necessary to meet certification, recertification or continuing education requirements.

Workforce Training

Courses are offered in all occupations and vary in length according to the complexity of the skill and the need of the employee or employer. Most occupational skill training courses are developed and taught on request from a group or an employer. Courses are designed to be offered at a time and place convenient to the employee and/or employer.

New and Expanding Industry Training

New and Expanding Industry Training is available to assist a company creating twelve or more new jobs, or a new company locating in Haywood County. A customized training program will be developed in cooperation with an employer to aid in preparing potential workers for skilled positions.

Additional assistance can be provided through selection and training of instructors, payment of instructor salaries, suitable space for a temporary training facility, installation cost of equipment in a temporary facility, and some assumption of the cost of non-salvageable materials expended in the training program.

Focused Industrial Training

Focused Industrial Training is designed to meet specific training needs that involve high cost or low enrollment. Individual employees or small employee groups in manufacturing can be provided with training that would normally not be available. An important use of Focused Industrial Training is to meet the needs of employees as new technologies arise in their skilled trade areas.

Customized Training

The unique training needs of the businesses, industries, and agencies in Haywood County can be met through customized training opportunities at Haywood Community College. Working with an organization, we will develop a training program that addresses the specific skills and competencies desired for development of the class participants.

Organizations can take advantage of training in areas such as leadership skills, customer service, workplace skills, problem solving, time management, and quality processes. Class schedules and session locations can be arranged to meet the operational demands of the organization.