Speaker 1: Ickel Institute. A man who's going to confirm. I firmly
Speaker 1: believe what I just got done, saying Mike Turble, the
Speaker 1: director and instructor at the Southern Ohio Technical Institute. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the fifty five Ksey Morning Show. Mike. It's a
Speaker 1: real pleasure to have you on today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, great to be on.
Speaker 1: Well, and I got to tell you, Steve Belzo from
Speaker 1: the Klema County Veteran Service Commission just walked out of
Speaker 1: the studio when he found out you were on the program.
Speaker 1: He immediately began singing your praises. He's the guys, a
Speaker 1: wonderful guy, a true humanitarian, a true patriot, and he
Speaker 1: went and gave me a few stories about some things
Speaker 1: that you had done for his veteran friends, and I
Speaker 1: just want to salute you for those efforts and just
Speaker 1: to pass along that Steve thinks the world of you, sir.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's great. Steve's a great guy and those things
Speaker 2: that he mentioned to you, that was my pleasure. I
Speaker 2: was more than happy to do that for our vets.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I know you do. And that's why I wanted
Speaker 1: to sing your praises out loud so my listeners knew
Speaker 1: the kind of quality and character guy you are now
Speaker 1: pivoting over. Let my listeners know, this is a trade
Speaker 1: school HVAC and refrigeration, and there are careers out there
Speaker 1: in these in the trades in HVAC are careers correct.
Speaker 2: There is absolutely as a matter of fact, the numbers
Speaker 2: on that reflect that we are going through what we
Speaker 2: call a mass retirement of what we are actually referred
Speaker 2: to in the industry as the silver tsunami. That's guys
Speaker 2: that are the baby boomers that we're coming up through
Speaker 2: these trades HVAC in particular, and they are retiring, okay,
Speaker 2: at a very high rate right now. So in the
Speaker 2: next two to five years, we are in need of
Speaker 2: about over forty thousand new hires to fill these positions
Speaker 2: over throughout the United States, of course, per year in
Speaker 2: the next five years the AAC industry particularly, and.
Speaker 1: When you graduate from the Southern Ohio Technical Institute, you
Speaker 1: are career ready.
Speaker 2: Yes, you are. Yeah. What we do is we have
Speaker 2: a program, a ten week accelerated course, and basically what
Speaker 2: we do is we give you the tools as an
Speaker 2: individual to be rehired or be a new what we
Speaker 2: call a new hire into the industry, so you are
Speaker 2: ready to go in and start building your career and
Speaker 2: actually expanding your education in the HVAC industry when you
Speaker 2: leave our school.
Speaker 1: Now, how many hours does it take to complete the course?
Speaker 2: The course is a two hundred hour course ten weeks.
Speaker 2: We have both evening classes and we have morning classes.
Speaker 2: The morning classes from nine till two and then our
Speaker 2: evening classes are five till ten. Those are four days
Speaker 2: a week, Monday through Thursday.
Speaker 1: And what kind of certifications do these students earn when
Speaker 1: they're when they complete the program.
Speaker 2: The certifications that are earned, we have that what is
Speaker 2: called a six OHA e PA certification, which is a
Speaker 2: must certification. You have to have that certification or you
Speaker 2: cannot work in the HVAC refrigeration industry. That's you get
Speaker 2: that certification. You also get an OSHA Safety Certification, which
Speaker 2: is a great hiring enhancement for the employers because you've
Speaker 2: already had safety training. You also will receive an HVAC
Speaker 2: Excellence Employment Ready Electrical Certification. You also will receive an
Speaker 2: HVAC Excellence Air Conditioning certification, and you also will receive
Speaker 2: an a Too Well Refrigerant certification. What are the new
Speaker 2: refrigerants that are coming on to the market right now today,
Speaker 2: and those are the ones that are replacing the ones
Speaker 2: that we have now to help with the greenhouse effect
Speaker 2: that these refrigerants are are actually bringing onto the the industry. Okay,
Speaker 2: so it said a two L certification will beginning, So
Speaker 2: five certifications wow in total?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well ten weeks and your career ready. I mean,
Speaker 1: this to me is just absolutely what the world needs.
Speaker 1: And of course with the demand out there for HVAC folks,
Speaker 1: you know, this is career. This is career stuff here.
Speaker 1: I mean the salaries as you have on your website,
Speaker 1: which I let my listeners know is s O T
Speaker 1: I dash hvac dot com. You can get all the
Speaker 1: information about the program. And also I wanted to focus
Speaker 1: on the Shore grant s h O R Shore Grant.
Speaker 1: Let my listeners know about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The short grand is a great UH is a
Speaker 2: great tool financing tool, Okay for these young people that
Speaker 2: are wanting to get into the industry. And for the
Speaker 2: vets UH, the Charles Shore Foundation has partnered with our school.
Speaker 2: And for the veteran I'll go over those first veteran UH.
Speaker 2: For the veterans, UH, they can come to our school
Speaker 2: and say, if the veteran has already exhausted his post
Speaker 2: nine to eleven benefits and maybe went to another school
Speaker 2: and he's uh went through that four year course or
Speaker 2: whatever in the business course, and you know he figured
Speaker 2: out what that really isn't what I wanted to do.
Speaker 2: But now his benefits have been exhausted. Okay, we come
Speaker 2: in with the Charles short brand and we will give
Speaker 2: that veteran a full ride okay to our school. And
Speaker 2: that full ride will include full tuition. It includes actually
Speaker 2: a gas stiphen for them to come to and from school,
Speaker 2: and we also provide tools for them to start into
Speaker 2: the industry after they after they have graduated.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's great and God bless you and for helping
Speaker 1: out the American veterans because you know this is the
Speaker 1: g I Bill cover this as well. Well.
Speaker 2: The GI Bill does cover it. That is, so many
Speaker 2: veterans go out into the world and when they actually
Speaker 2: when they come in and they get out of the
Speaker 2: armed forces, unfortunately, you know, they go into something and
Speaker 2: they spend their benefits and they do something that they
Speaker 2: really don't want and by the time they realize that
Speaker 2: their benefits have been exhausted. Okay, and uh, that's where
Speaker 2: we step in with the Charles Shore grants and we
Speaker 2: take care of this. But yes, to answer your question,
Speaker 2: if you're fresh out of the service, absolutely, your your
Speaker 2: post nine to eleven benefits will cover the school tuition.
Speaker 1: Perfect fit for military veterans looking for a career path.
Speaker 1: It sounds like now I'm guessing and you can fill
Speaker 1: in the blanks for me, Mike, that HVAC companies out there,
Speaker 1: who I guess are searching for people for these roles,
Speaker 1: know about the Southern High Technical Institute. Are they knocking
Speaker 1: on your door asking for graduates?
Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, we get tons and tons of phone calls
Speaker 2: every day. And real quick, I want to kind of
Speaker 2: step back a little bit too. We also have this
Speaker 2: program Charles Shore Grant available for high school students. Okay,
Speaker 2: mister Shore thinks that that is a very important part, Okay,
Speaker 2: that these high school students need to be aware of
Speaker 2: that they have options. They don't always have to go
Speaker 2: to college.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 2: And so we offer the same benefit. If you are
Speaker 2: a student in high school and you are ninety days
Speaker 2: before graduation or ninety days after graduation, you were eligible
Speaker 2: for this Charles Shore grant.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's fantastic. I know there's some parents out there
Speaker 1: that'll be steering their kids in the direction of the
Speaker 1: Southern High Technical Institute because yeah, I mean, you can
Speaker 1: work your entire life in the HVAC A refrigeration industry.
Speaker 1: You can put a food on your family's table, a
Speaker 1: career opportunity, and you don't have to go into debt
Speaker 1: one hundred plus thousand dollars with a college education, you
Speaker 1: may come out the other side that did you find
Speaker 1: out it's worthless?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and not to mention think about this, A lot
Speaker 2: of these careers are a lot of these educations that's
Speaker 2: so called educations, okay, and they're great educations in a
Speaker 2: lot of cases. But guess what, we have the new
Speaker 2: factor going in AI.
Speaker 1: We don't have to.
Speaker 2: Worry about AI and our industry quite honestly, because you
Speaker 2: know what, You're always are going to have to be
Speaker 2: kept warm. You're always going to need your refriger creation
Speaker 2: for your grocery industry, so on and so forth. So
Speaker 2: guess what we're not going to be affected by AI,
Speaker 2: nor is this job. It's just a great, great thing
Speaker 2: to get into. And I think that and when you
Speaker 2: mentioned about hiring and companies calling us. They call us
Speaker 2: every day. We actually have two large job fairs every
Speaker 2: year which involves about sixteen of the local companies around
Speaker 2: the Greater Cincinnati area and our school presently are for
Speaker 2: our graduates. We're at about an eighty five percent job placement.
Speaker 2: So we not only will educate you, we also it's
Speaker 2: serious business for us. We want to see you out
Speaker 2: there and work, and so we are involved from A
Speaker 2: to Z from the time you go to school till
Speaker 2: the time you get hired with a company.
Speaker 1: Well, and I'll recommend my listeners check out the website again,
Speaker 1: it's SOTI Southerhilo Technical Institute sot I dash hvac dot com.
Speaker 1: You got some really interesting and sort of moving stories
Speaker 1: about some of the graduates overcoming challenges in life and
Speaker 1: pursuing this as a career absent or after efforts in
Speaker 1: other areas. Because you're alluded to veterans sometimes find themselves
Speaker 1: in a job that they really don't like and this
Speaker 1: is an option for them. But you've got some really
Speaker 1: good success stories. They're posted on your website as well.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we do. Yeah, we we have a lot of
Speaker 2: great stories and a lot of great individuals and a
Speaker 2: lot of great young people have come through this program.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what it is. The desire of
Speaker 2: our school to see you succeed. That's what we're here for.
Speaker 2: We're here to see you get into a career. Okay,
Speaker 2: not just an education, but a career. It's going to
Speaker 2: last you for life. And by the way, you know,
Speaker 2: profit's not a dirty word either. These guys are starting
Speaker 2: out usually at about forty thousand dollars a year based
Speaker 2: salary okay while they're training. And guess what within five years,
Speaker 2: if you really put yourself to it, and you are
Speaker 2: a season serviceman going to a season service tech position,
Speaker 2: you're making high five figures and then sometimes you reach
Speaker 2: six figures.
Speaker 1: Oh my, well, that steals it right there. Mike. Mike
Speaker 1: riminal director and instructor at Southern Iron Technical Institute. There's
Speaker 1: a career and a money and opportunity for you in
Speaker 1: the HVAC in refrigeration field. And you can get that
Speaker 1: degree again two hundred hours ten weeks go during the day,
Speaker 1: go after work in the evening. If you can manage
Speaker 1: to fit that in your schedule, and you're on your
Speaker 1: way to freedom and a career. Opportunity with people barking
Speaker 1: down the doors looking to hire you. It's you know what, Mike,
Speaker 1: I'm so happy I was able to have you on
Speaker 1: the program to talk about this. You know, just one
Speaker 1: of the trades demonstrating that there are options for folks
Speaker 1: out there without a college degree and for those folks
Speaker 1: who are victims of the four year program finding themselves
Speaker 1: without employment. You art degree majors out there, get the
Speaker 1: HVAC field, get in touch with the Southern Technical Institute,
Speaker 1: and you may even qualify for that Shore grant. Mike, outstanding, man.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you what you're doing. That great and now
Speaker 1: real quick here, Yeah, do you have classes starting soon?
Speaker 1: Is there a rotation on this? How does it work?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? These we go every ten weeks. So our next class,
Speaker 2: both day and night classes, they start from July are
Speaker 2: once coming up July fourteenth through September the eighteenth. Then
Speaker 2: we will also have classes one from August fourth running
Speaker 2: through October ninth. Those are the next classes that are
Speaker 2: going to be available.
Speaker 1: Well, and I checked out the pricing. Even if you
Speaker 1: don't qualify for a shot grant, this is a very
Speaker 1: affordable program considering the return on investment man. This is amazing.
Speaker 1: Southern High Technical Institute, Mike, it has been a pleasure
Speaker 1: having you on the program, and I'll encourage my listeners
Speaker 1: to get the link on my blog page fifty five
Speaker 1: KRC dot com or go directly to s O. T
Speaker 1: I Dash hvac dot com and learn about it for yourself.
Speaker 1: Might keep up the great work, my friend. It's great.
Speaker 2: It's been a great pleasure being on your show.
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