Try-A-Trades® Bring Career Options to life

Students touring Skills City at the annual Provincial Skills Canada Competition (PSCC), experience hands on learning in dozen of occupations.

Skills Canada Alberta (SCA) partners with industry, labour groups, associations and post-secondary institutions to host Try-A-Trades® that give students a behind the scenes looks at where their interests can take them.  

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Host your own Try-A-Trade®

SCA brings the energy, students and platform for organizations to engage with youth and have big impact:

• take a proactive approach to addressing labour shortages 
• increase your organizations profile 
• promote future and current job opportunities 
• provide hands-on, experiential career planning in a particular trade or industry  
• connect your staff to perspective employees 
• inform educators and parents on the benefits of your trade
• connect with government, industry, labour and education leaders
• be part of the Skills Movement in Alberta that recognizes the value all 
• stakeholders have in the development of Alberta's workforce

Contact Haley Schultz, Partnership Lead at 780-499-9841 or haleys@skillscanada.com to receive information on how your organization can host a Try-A-Trade®.

Featured Try-A-Trades® at the PSCC:

Alberta Wall and Ceiling Association

The depth of job opportunities in the construction industry reaches further than your traditional carpenter.  Each year many energetic members of the Alberta Wall and Ceiling Association (AWCA) create a Try-A-Trade® that demonstrates key skills as a Lather - Interior Systems Mechanic Apprentice.

As a Lather Apprentice you will assemble and install the framework for gypsum materials in buildings. Daily jobs range from working with drywall, acoustical ceilings, thermal and sound insulation, and firestopping. 

Find out more about becoming a Lather - Interior Systems Mechanic Apprentice

Job Safety Skills Society and Alberta Distance Learning Centre 

Safety continues to be the first priority of SCA events.  In addition to the Workplace Safety competition, the PSCC features an interactive safety focused Try-A-Trade®.  Students gain an understanding of the culture of safety that students should expect in their first job.