Find a career you wouldn’t trade. A skilled trade is a career path that requires hands-on work and specialty knowledge. Skilled trades workers build and maintain infrastructure like our homes, schools, hospitals, roads, farms and parks. They keep industries running and perform many services we rely on every day, like hairstyling, food preparation or social services. By 2021, one in five new jobs in Ontario is expected to be in trades-related occupations. With an aging workforce, employers are looking for skilled tradespeople who can help build and maintain our province and provide essential services.
Popular Resources
- List of Trades
- Finding an Apprenticeship
- Skilled Trades Programs at College
- Apprentice Search: Connecting Employers and Apprentices across Ontario
The Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) is a School to Work program that opens the door for students to explore and work in apprenticeship occupations starting in Grade 11 or Grade 12 through the Cooperative Education program.
Listen & Learn from these podcasts:
- Goal Setting for the Apprenticeship Pathway
- Electrician Apprenticeship Opportunities
- Ironworker
- Construction Craft Worker
- OYAP Opportunities
Learn more about OYAP:
WiTT Kits: Women in Technology & Trades (WiTT) STEM Kits
A curriculum kit looks at how ideas concepts and ideas in science, engineering, math, and technology work together to help students engage with STEM based curriculum and virtualizations in small achievable tasks.These kits are designed in concert with Women in Technology &Trades students at Mohawk College to ensure that the kits are interesting and appealing to a broad range of students.
Each kit provides guidance on the materials needed, suggested activities, and advice for both faculty and students on what the kit will help students to learn, and how to start using the kit. Where possible, curriculum targets for appropriate age groups and skill levels will be identified for each kit, which can be used to demonstrate, guide project work, or enable independent study for age appropriate levels.
