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Business & Entrepreneurship
Learn how to start, organize, market, and grow a business while building practical career and office skills you can use right away.
Explore Business TrainingCareer training, registered apprenticeships, testing, and workforce pathways
Slide 1 of 4: Career training and apprenticeships
Start With a Career Path
Choose where you want to go next.
Elevate connects career training, apprenticeships, funding guidance, and employer-based learning. Pick a pathway below to see what the experience looks like and how to get started.
Skilled Trades
HVAC Technician Training
Train for hands-on work with heating and cooling systems, safety, diagnostics, installation, maintenance, and service calls.
Explore HVAC Training
Transportation
CDL Training
Prepare for commercial driving with permit preparation, safety instruction, and coordinated behind-the-wheel training.
Explore CDL Training
Earn While You Learn
Barber Apprenticeship
Learn in a real barbershop, build your skills with experienced professionals, and earn wages while completing your apprenticeship pathway.
Explore Barber Apprenticeship
Beauty Industry
Beauty Apprenticeships
Turn your interest in hair, skin, nails, and client service into supervised workplace training in the beauty industry.
Explore Beauty Apprenticeships
Host an Apprentice — Sign Up Free
Grow your salon, barbershop, spa, or nail business with an apprentice while Elevate supports onboarding, training records, and program administration. There is no cost for a business to apply or enroll as a Host Shop.
- • Build and train your future workforce
- • Earn revenue from supervised client services
- • Get help with apprenticeship records and compliance
- • Explore available workforce rebates and tax-credit eligibility
Earn While You Learn
Turn beauty and barbering talent into a licensed career.
Train with experienced professionals in a real workplace, complete related instruction, document your progress, and prepare for Indiana licensing requirements.
Earn while training
Paid employment depends on placement and the participating Host Shop.
Real workplace skills
Practice in a supervised salon, spa, nail studio, or barbershop.
Licensing preparation
Complete structured training and prepare for applicable state requirements.
Speak it. Build it. Launch it.
Build an animated website or app by talking to it.
PARIS is Elevate's voice-and-text AI builder. Tell it what your business does, which pages you need, the colors and motion you want, and how customers should book or pay. It creates the first working draft, adds animated sections, and keeps revising the website or app as you speak or type—no coding required.
Business websites and landing pages
Customer portals and web apps
Subscriptions and secure payments
Booking, forms, CRM, and automation
Courses, memberships, and client content
Custom branding, domains, and publishing
Stay Connected
Follow Elevate and take the platform with you.
Follow the official Elevate business channels, watch product and program demos, and install the Elevate app on your phone or tablet.
Follow on Facebook
Get program news, events, success stories, and enrollment updates.
Watch on YouTube
See program videos, platform demonstrations, and practical guidance.
Connect on LinkedIn
Follow Elevate’s business, workforce, and partnership announcements.
Download / Install the App
Get iPhone, iPad, and Android installation steps and open Elevate from your home screen.
Paying for Training
Not sure how you will pay? Start here.
Some students may qualify for workforce funding, employer-supported training, grants, or other assistance. Others choose self-pay. We help you understand which route may fit before you commit to a program.
Workforce funding
Programs such as WIOA or Indiana workforce funding may be available when you and the selected program meet the responsible agency's requirements.
Self-pay & employer options
If public funding is not the right fit, ask about payment options and eligible employer-based training arrangements.
Using WorkOne?
Complete your orientation, then connect it to Elevate.
Schedule the official Indianapolis WorkOne orientation, then complete Elevate's funding intake so we know where you are in the process.
Ready for your next step?
Tell us what you want to do. We'll help you find the right path.
Apply for training, explore apprenticeship options, check possible funding routes, or talk with our team before you decide. You do not have to figure it out alone.
Registrations, approvals & funding pathways
DOL Registered
Registered Apprenticeship sponsor
ETPL Listed
Approved programs are listed by the state
WIOA Pathways
Eligibility and authorization are program-specific
RAPIDS Tracked
Registered apprenticeship reporting workflow
WorkOne Coordination
Workforce referral and funding coordination
JRI Pathway
Availability depends on current authorization
Workforce systems and public-sector alignment
