The trade smart way
The Trade Smart Solution
Trade Smart College was created to solve a problem. Across North America, we desperately need more excellent candidates to enter the trades and go on to become the next generation of industry leaders. There are many reasons why this isn’t happening today, but the main problem is that the pathway from education to employment is broken.
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In The Trades With
The Student Employment Path
The Student Employment Path (STEP) at Trade Smart College is our unique curriculum, built to help great people get started in the trades. In this Diploma program, students spend two months in class, followed by six months on a paid technical internship. All of our opportunities insist that students be prepared, focused, and reliable.
Spend two months in class learning the professional and technical skills required to be a great trades employee.
Use those skills to earn a 6-month paid internship to complete your diploma.
Build the technical skills of your chosen trade in the real world, not in a lab, from fully qualified technicians.
Whether you’re a prospective student, a parent or a company, we want to hear from you and put you in touch with one of our team members as soon as possible. We feel it is important to answer your questions one-on-one, so you can make informed decisions about joining us on our mission to connect students and companies. Please fill out the form, and we will get back to you very soon.
The Foundations of Trade Smart College
We started Trade Smart as a response to what companies, industry groups, governments and students have been demanding for at least two decades.
- Trades companies cannot expand their businesses, and many turn down work because they cannot find quality skilled workers.
- Industry groups lobby for incentives to ease these shortages, but companies rarely have the time to sort through the bureaucracy of applications, tax credits, and temporary programs.
- Governments want the tax revenue from economic growth, lower unemployment, and are genuinely interested in having students complete relevant training that will get them a job.
- And students just want a fair chance at a good job with the potential to grow.
Despite the fact that everyone has been begging for change, less than 25% of people who want an apprenticeship are able to get one. Compounding that problem, apprenticeship completion rates are stuck below 40% across the country. This is an enormous loss for Canada, and there is a better way.
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