jumpstart your
career in the trades
Internships, opportunity, and experience. At Trade Smart College, you must complete a paid technical internship to earn our diploma. We find these opportunities before we admit you. And by the time you graduate, you’ll have almost 1000 hours of real-world work experience in the trades. If this sounds like what you’re looking for, book a meeting with us below.
STEP Forward 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 with one of our Trade Smart Certified companies. All of our companies insist that students learn a core set of professional skills before they teach them the technical skills on the job.
Month 1-2:
Professional Skills Boot Camp
Spend two months in class learning the core competencies that make great employees prepared, focused, and reliable. In most cases, people who don’t have these skills get disciplined or fired long before people who don’t have highly developed technical skills on the tools.
Month 2-2.5:
Technical Internship Evaluation
After passing your classes, you have two weeks to earn a paid technical internship from your placement company. You need to demonstrate that you are prepared, focused and reliable for that company to accept you as a paid intern.
Month 2.5-8:
Paid Technical Internship
For the rest of your program, you will be working for your placement company and learning the technical skills of your trade. We continue to support you and the company throughout the paid technical internship, to ensure that things run smoothly for both sides.
Build Prepared, Focused, and Reliable Teams
In our 8 month program, students spend the first 2 months in class learning the professional skills that are crucial to be prepared, focused and reliable. Students who are successful in class are then given 2 weeks to earn it on-site with a company. If the company agrees that the student demonstrated that they are prepared, focused, and reliable at the end of those 2 weeks, they will then move into a 6 month paid internship with the company. We provide full support to the student and employer throughout the entire internship. At the end of the program, students gain valuable hands-on experience and companies gain an asset to their prepared, focussed, and reliable team.
It starts with the uniform. In the trades, a full uniform is the starting point for every job. From there, we make sure our students are self-motivated, to happily take on the work that needs to get done.
We begin by ensuring our students keep track of their time, so they are used to filling out timesheets before getting to a job site. We then instill in them the importance of doing quality work, and putting in the effort to make that happen.
Reliability starts with showing up early. Every day. From there we teach students how to be accountable for their actions and efforts. Trades work is teamwork, so we ensure our students understand that integrity is the foundation of effective teams.
When we say, “Learn It”, this is what we mean. Our students learn the core competencies listed below so that they are prepared, focused and reliable when they show up to the jobsite. And there’s a reason we teach these topics. They are what companies have told us they want in new employees.
- Workplace Readiness Skills & Routines
- Mindset & Decision Processes
- Practical Understanding & Applications of Tools
- Measurement & Trades Calculations
- Interview Prep & Resume Building
- Integrated Workplace Assessments
- Project Planning & Tracking
- Skills Assessments
- Construction Management Software
- Career Advancement Strategies
- Management & Business Competencies
- Equipment, Systems & Modern Technology
Your Meeting
Your Terms
Need more info? Looking to register? Want to find out about financing or start dates? Book a call, meeting, or text chat with Carrie our Student Success Manager.
Plumbing & HVAC
Electrical
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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.
Trade Smart College
If you’re a student thinking about applying to Trade Smart College, we’ve created a space for you to find out a lot more about our Diploma, and what you can expect both in-class and on your internship. Let’s start the process.
Trade Smart College
A lot of local companies are asking us about becoming Trade Smart certified. If you are one of them, please take a moment to look through this section. It lays out the benefits and requirements of our approval process, as well how you can support the apprenticeship pathway and get great new candidates into the industry.
Trade Smart College
If you have a student who is thinking about coming to Trade Smart College, you probably have a lot of questions. We’ve created a resource section for parents to find out more about the College, the details and costs of our Diploma, and our unique approach to getting students jobs.
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.
Campus Hours
- Mon- Fri: 7am- 5pm
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