Finding Apprenticeship Opportunities

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This guide will help you find the information you need to start working in British Columbia. You can use the menu buttons to move between sections of the guide.

What’s an Apprenticeship?

An apprenticeship is a combination of on-the-job training and classroom learning that leads to trade certification. As an apprentice you work for an employer while learning your trade. Once you complete your apprenticeship and receive your “ticket”, you are qualified to work in a skilled trade.

Benefits

• You gain valuable work experience
• You learn the skills you need by actually practicing them in a work setting
• You get paid while you’re doing it
• You complete the program as a certified tradesperson – assuming you pass your certification exam

You spend about 20% of your time in school and the other 80% of your time on the job, getting paid, and being mentored by a certified tradesperson.

Apprenticeships are open to everyone – women, men, and youth. Most apprenticeships take four years to complete, depending on the trade.

Sources: About the Trades|Skilled TradesBC,BuildForce Canada