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Trade Skills Foundation (exploratory sampler program)

Over 12 weeks you'll explore a variety of trades, career paths and safety practices/training. The program teaches skills required to successfully learn on the job and provides a path to other Trade foundation or apprenticeship programs. Trades covered may include:

• Automotive
• Carpentry
• Electrical
• Fine Furniture
• Heavy Duty Mechanic
• Plumbing and Pipe Trades
• Professional Cook
• Sheet Metal
• Welding

Length 12-weeks��

Location Interurban campus

Credential Certificate in Trades Skills Foundation (CORE), Construction

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The Trades Sampler is fully funded for eligible applicants

WITT might be right for you if you are:

• A Canadian citizen, permanent resident or protected person (under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, S.C. 2001, c. 27) legally entitled to work in Canada;
• Living in British Columbia
• Not a full-time student (not enrolled in high school or post-secondary training)
• Not actively participating in another provincially or federally funded labour market program, and��
• whose employment status is:
  1. Unemployed, or working less than 20 hours per week, or
  2. Precariously employed. Precarious employment is defined as:
     • is working in unstable or unsustainable employment (including self-employment) as evidenced by:
       • irregular hours of work (such as casual labour or on-call work);
       • unreliable remuneration (such as piece-work or commission); and/or
       • earnings that cannot support an individual or their family;
     • is working, but has a total employment (including self-employment) income that is below the market basket measures;
     • is working in an industry or occupation that is likely to be replaced by technology or automation in the near future;
     • is working in an occupation or profession that is clearly lower than their skills or qualifications and that provides no imminent prospect of advancement; or
     • has Just Cause for leaving their current employment.