Skilled Trades: Construction Apprenticeship Foundations

Discover what a career in the trades can offer you. Learn about opportunities in the skilled trades, how apprenticeships work, and how to land a job in the trade of your choice.

Introduction

• How to start a new career in the trades

1. What Are the Skilled Trades?

• The importance of skilled trades
• Skilled trades: Education and technology
• What is an apprenticeship?
• Skilled trade career opportunities

2. What Does Each Trade Do?

• What laborers do
• What carpenters do
• What electricians do
• — Learning break —
• What plumbers do
• What sheet metals workers do
• What masons do

3. Where Do I Start?

• First steps: Doing your research
• Applying to an apprenticeship program
• What is a pre-apprenticeship?
• Improving your chances
• Where to go from here