Recent Videos & Podcasts
Trades Podcast – Ben Lalonde, EMBA
Audio
Ben Lalonde is a licensed automotive service technician, the owner of Orleans AutoPro, and the Founder and CEO of Rebel Technologies. Tune into this podcast to hear about his incredible journey and why he thinks apprenticeship is the key to success in the trades.
Raising Awareness – Women in Trades
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Filmed during Youth Day 2016, this video by the Industry Training Authority in BC shares the journeys, challenges and successes of women working in the skilled trades.
Trades Podcast – Marie-Pier
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Trades Podcast
Women in Apprenticeship – Renée
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Renée Saunders, an apprentice welder from St. John’s, Newfoundland, discusses her path in the trades and her challenges and aspirations.
Trades Podcast – Jennifer Green
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With university on the horizon, a high school co-op experience pushed Jennifer toward a career as an industrial millwright.
Women and Apprenticeship – Erin
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Erin Keough, Apprentice Electrician, Calvert Newfoundland, shows how the trades influenced her life growing up, and talks about the great opportunities made possible by her career path.
Trades Podcast – Vanessa
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Vanessa, a journeyperson millwright in Alberta, talks about finding job satisfaction in her second career.
Careers in Trades: Sheet Metal Worker
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Kayla O’Brien, a licensed Sheet Metal Worker from Ottawa, Ontario, talks about her trade, her career path and why she thinks trades make the best careers.
Trades Podcast – Danielle
Audio
Hear Danielle, a female welder apprentice, talk about what attracted her to a career in the trades. Hint: She likes to play with fire.
#BecauseIts2016
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“Because it’s 2016” highlights women in the trades and non-traditional occupations. (source: www.becauseits2016.org).
Trades Podcast – Tina
Audio
Tina is an electrician apprentice who talks about the benefits of a trades career as a single mother … and how her own mother inspired her career choice.
Trades Podcast – Jamie McMillan
Audio
Jamie McMillan is a journeyperson ironworker passionate about her trade and getting more young women to consider the trades as a viable career option. Listen to how she found her own career path and how she helps others discover the trades!
Trades Podcast – Bobby Watt
Audio
Bobby Watt of RJW-Gem Campbell Stonemasons Inc. chats about his passion for his trade and his current projects, and also discusses some of his apprentice hiring practices and shares some tips.
Videos
Women in Apprenticeship – Renée
Renée Saunders, an apprentice welder from St. John’s, Newfoundland, discusses her path in the trades and her challenges and aspirations.
Raising Awareness – Women in Trades
Filmed during Youth Day 2016, this video by the Industry Training Authority in BC shares the journeys, challenges and successes of women working in the skilled trades.
Women and Apprenticeship – Erin
Erin Keough, Apprentice Electrician, Calvert Newfoundland, shows how the trades influenced her life growing up, and talks about the great opportunities made possible by her career path.
Careers in Trades: Sheet Metal Worker
Kayla O’Brien, a licensed Sheet Metal Worker from Ottawa, Ontario, talks about her trade, her career path and why she thinks trades make the best careers.
#BecauseIts2016
“Because it’s 2016” highlights women in the trades and non-traditional occupations. (source: www.becauseits2016.org).
Podcasts
Trades Podcast – Ben Lalonde, EMBA
Ben Lalonde is a licensed automotive service technician, the owner of Orleans AutoPro, and the Founder and CEO of Rebel Technologies. Tune into this podcast to hear about his incredible journey and why he thinks apprenticeship is the key to success in the trades.
Trades Podcast – Marie-Pier
Trades Podcast
Trades Podcast – Jennifer Green
With university on the horizon, a high school co-op experience pushed Jennifer toward a career as an industrial millwright.
Trades Podcast – Vanessa
Vanessa, a journeyperson millwright in Alberta, talks about finding job satisfaction in her second career.
Trades Podcast – Danielle
Hear Danielle, a female welder apprentice, talk about what attracted her to a career in the trades. Hint: She likes to play with fire.
Trades Podcast – Tina
Tina is an electrician apprentice who talks about the benefits of a trades career as a single mother … and how her own mother inspired her career choice.
Trades Podcast – Jamie McMillan
Jamie McMillan is a journeyperson ironworker passionate about her trade and getting more young women to consider the trades as a viable career option. Listen to how she found her own career path and how she helps others discover the trades!
Trades Podcast – Bobby Watt
Bobby Watt of RJW-Gem Campbell Stonemasons Inc. chats about his passion for his trade and his current projects, and also discusses some of his apprentice hiring practices and shares some tips.