Taking up an apprenticeship or traineeship is a great way to start (or restart) your career. Choose from different certificate levels in more than 500 occupations, from floristry to plumbing to financial services – including traditional trades and careers across business and industry.
Apprenticeships and traineeships combine valuable on-the-job training with vocational study at a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) – usually a Victorian TAFE institute.
You also get to earn an income while you learn, making study more achievable for a whole lot of people.
Apprentices and trainees who successfully finish end up with a nationally recognised qualification, with skills that employers want and need, backed up by valuable workplace experience. Then you choose what comes next: you can discuss options for staying on with your employer, find other skilled employment, continue your studies or even start your own business.
Apprenticeships and traineeships can be full time or part time, and they’re open to anyone of working age.
If you're at secondary school, you can look at a school-based apprenticeship or traineeship to start your career while you continue your schooling.
Where can an apprenticeship or traineeship take you?
Apprenticeships and traineeships can get you started in hundreds of different careers, with a variety of workplaces and job types on offer. Your role might be indoors or outdoors, desk-based or on the move, working with your hands, with people, or with technology. You can spend your time caring, leading, creating, building, making or managing. It’s your choice.
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