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Trades and
Apprenticeships
Industry Training Authority
What is an apprentice? What
different trades careers are available? Learn about the shortage of
skilled tradespeople.
The Interprovincial
Standards (Red Seal) Program was established to provide greater
mobility for skilled workers across Canada. This Website will enable you
to learn more about apprenticeship, trades, the Red Seal and
certification.
Apprentice and Trades
This site has a wealth of general
Canadian information, resources and contacts that will help you plan how
to line up a trade/apprenticeship – a good place to start!
Careers in
Construction
What's in the Construction Industry for you?
Skilled Trades in Canada
A premier site with everything you need to go after a trade. Although
based out of Ontario, the resources for job seekers, employers,
educators, and info seekers are useful Canada-wide.
Transferable Skills
for Trades
This site has been designed to provide a quick and accurate method in
matching up your trade skills with similar trades in other sectors, and
to present a list of additional skill sets that are required to enter
that sector.
Trades Training
Vancouver Island
Trades
A comprehensive website on Trades Training put together by North Island
College, Malaspina, and Camosun. Check out what trades programs are
offered where on Vancouver Island.
BC Training and Apprenticeship booklet
Your BC guide to getting into a Trade/Apprenticeship. You can download
this and print part or all of it for free.
North
Island College
Offers training in several trades including Automotive Service
Technician, Cook, Electrical, Heavy Duty Mechanics, Cabinetmaking,
Plumbing & Heating and Metal Fabrication and many more. The college also
offers a new trades introduction program.
Malaspina
University-College
Offers training in several trades, including Automotive Service
Technician, Commercial Baking, Barber/Stylist, Carpentry, Cook, Heavy
Duty Mechanics, Heating, Ventilation and Air/conditioning/Refrigeration,
Heavy Equipment Operation, Small Engine Technician, and Welding.
BCIT Apprenticeship
Training
A direct path to trades training with the longest standing trades
training institution in BC with information to help you plot a career
and training in Trades.
BC Entry Level Trades Training (Industry Training Programs) Overview
A brief description of Entry Level Trades Training in BC with links
to websites that show which institutions where training is offered.
Alberta Apprenticeship Training
A super site for researching different trades, qualifications and
training for Alberta and Canada.
Starting a Career -- Finding Work as an Apprentice
Basic step-by-step information on how to set yourself up in a trade or
apprenticeship.
Trades Organizations and Contacts:
Northern Vancouver Island
Construction Association
Lists local North Island construction companies and contacts with links
to other BC and Canadian Construction Associations.
BC
Building and Construction Trades Council
The British Columbia and Yukon Territory Building and Construction
Trades Council is an umbrella organization for construction unions in
the province of British Columbia. Currently there are 20 unions in the
province who are affiliated to the BCYT-BCTC. Together, these unions
represent 40,000 members and highly skilled craft workers throughout BC
and the Yukon Territory. Check out this
Archive of
TradeTalk Magazines for the latest news in BC construction.
The Construction
Sector Council (CSC)
A Canadian organization committed to the development of a highly skilled
workforce – for the current and future needs of the construction
industry in Canada.
Canadian Building and
Construction Trades Union
Coordinates and provides resources to construction and trades unions in
Canada and the U.S.
Vancouver Regional Construction
Association
Has a construction job centre, links and a searchable membership
directory.
British Columbia Directory of
Unions
BC Union Label - A comprehensive
directory of all BC unions and resource for unions and unionized
services in British Columbia – click on the left hand side of the page.
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