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You must complete a personal profile/resume and post it on our website before you will be allowed to search the jobs database. This is a step-by-step process that our applicant web pages guide you through. Once you have posted a personal profile, not only will you be able to search, but employers will also be able to view your profile and contact you if they are interested.

You choose your own User ID and Password. You can make it whatever you like, but remember that the User ID and Password are case sensitive. That means, that if your User ID is 'Apprentice' you always need to capitalize the 'A'. 'apprentice' with a small 'a' will not be recognized by the system. if you have any difficulties registering, please contact the Administrator at admin@apprenticesearch.com or 905.634.2575.

Employers outside of the apprenticesearch.com area can still submit a job vacancy. It will be posted in the "What's New" section under "Leads on Jobs". Unfortunately, you will not be able to use the system directly and search through applicant personal profiles, but your job vacancy will be posted publicly for all website users to view, in or out of the area.  Submit your job vacancy with relevant contact info by fax on company letterhead to 905.634.2705 Att: Website Administrator or by email to admin@apprenticesearch.com.

Make sure you have entered your User Id and password correctly, as it is case sensitive. Your account could also be dormant, meaning you have not logged in over the past 90 days. You can either re-register using a new User ID and Password or you can email the administrator at admin@apprenticesearch.com to have your old account reactivated. 

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Help is available for new apprentices via the Loans for Tools program. This program offers new apprentices a loan to help them buy tools and equipment they need to perform the trade in which they are registered. Manuals and code books that will remain the property of the apprentice are also eligible.

The Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities automatically sends a Loans for Tools information package to each new apprentice who becomes registered with the Ministry after June 1, 1998. To apply, you complete the loan agreement and return it to the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities in the envelope they provide.

They are both pieces of legislation that govern apprenticeship in the province of Ontario. The TQAA applied to every trade until the year 2000, but now continues to apply only to all construction trades (about 30 trades in total). The new Act (ACA) applies only to service, automotive, manufacturing/industrial sector apprenticeships - about 100 trades in total. 

Most trades require 3 levels of in-school training. In-school training may be acquired in a variety of ways including block release (full-time attendance for @ 8 weeks), part-time evening courses), and day release (one day per week for a set period of time). The cost of tuition is, as of August 1, 2002, no longer covered by government. If you attend your in-school training under a block release arrangement, you may be eligible for Employment Insurance, and in some cases employers may pay you full wages as if you were working. Recent changes (July 21/02) to Employment Insurance legislation will allow apprentices in approved training to serve only one two-week waiting period within the same apprenticeship program. Apprentices, who may take from three to five blocks of classroom training within their overall program, would have had to serve as many as three to five two-week waiting periods prior to this change in legislation. 

It’s a combination of the two, with more emphasis being placed since the Apprenticeship and Certification Act (ACA) proclamation in 2000 on the competencies achieved model instead of a time based model. Apprenticeships covered by the ACA are all Industrial, Service and Motive Power trades (about 100 in total), and some of the terminology has changed under this new act. The Apprenticeship Contract is now called a Training Agreement. Sponsor refers to the trainer, who may or may not be the apprentice's employer.  Industry committees for the various trades have a more prominent role in setting academic and training standards. Grade 12 is the minimum if no standard is prescribed.

Use your contacts with family, friends, general networking, job search agencies (youth employment offices, job developer agencies such as Job Connect), temporary employment agencies, College placement offices, internet websites such as apprenticesearch.com and electronic job banks through such job agencies as Human Resource Centres (Service Canada). See our Steps to An Apprenticeship Guide for additional suggestions.

The first thing you should do is to self-identify to your employer that you want to become an apprentice. If you are a new employee, keep in mind that your employer is evaluating you as an employee: your attitude, attendance, punctuality, reliability and general motivation on the job. Don’t expect to be instantly registered as an apprentice if you haven’t proven yourself as a good all-round employee. At the point that your employer agrees to formally register you, call the Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities (Apprenticeship Branch) to start the ball rolling. With some employers, the company policy is to register apprentices right away, while others will wait for a while to assess your on-the-job attitude and performance and to see if you have what it takes.

Whether or not you receive credit for some of the skills you picked up in one trade before changing to another is up to the employer who is now registering you as an apprentice. This employer may weigh many factors, such as: how recent your experience was, whether or not you did any in-school training, if you worked on up-to-date equipment where you used to work, and what the general correlation is between the two trade areas.

You’ll need to obtain a transcript of your courses from the post secondary institute(s) you attended. Educational credits are evaluated at the time you register as an apprentice, so have those documents with you. As well, Industry Committees in the various trades will have an increasing role in evaluation of educational credits in their respective trades.

You might enhance your employability if you take a pre-apprenticeship program that leads into an apprenticeship. These are generally available at Community Colleges or other accredited institutes/agencies such as Skills Centres. They often have a Job Placement service to assist course graduates in making the transition to a job, and some college or agency programs are co-op, providing you with a direct connection to an employer.

There are some trades that are covered under a program known as the Red Seal Program.  This program is designed to facilitate interprovincial mobility. Depending on the trade you qualified in however, you may be certified to work in Ontario only. If you re-locate to another province, you would need to show them your Ontario trade license and then sit that province’s exam. You don’t however have to do your entire apprenticeship all over again. In other trades, the mark you achieve on the exam you sit to obtain your Certificate of Qualification determines whether you qualify for an Interprovincial certificate. It's best to check with your Apprenticeship consultant when you register as an apprentice so you know what flexibility you’ll have.

Many post-secondary institutes provide evaluation of any previous education/experience through something called a Prior Learning Assessment. Previous training may entitle you to advanced standing in a particular course, so you should draw this to the attention of the Registrar at the time of application.

Please follow this link to view some of the Non-regulated Trades.

Credit hours are discussed at the time of registration. The training consultant, your sponsor (employer) and yourself will meet to discuss the feasibility of applying credit toward your apprenticeship.

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The Apprenticeship Training Consultant will be your contact with the Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities. They will complete the paperwork for your registration, guide you and the sponsor in the training on the job, and co-ordinate your in-school training. They are available to answer any questions or concerns that you or your sponsor may have.

There are some significant changes going on in the printing industry at present, particularly in the pre-press area that may be affecting some of the demand for training in the industry. However, if you have an employer with specific training needs in the printing industry or any other trade area not listed on the site, an evaluation of the worksite and employer-specific training needs can be initiated by calling your nearest Apprenticeship Branch of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. At that time a Training Consultant will review the request and determine if a current schedule is in place or whether a new one needs to be developed.