Helping someone
decide.
Trades Match works best answered by the person deciding. The read gives the two of you something concrete to talk about: the role they’d play on a crew, where their instincts sit on the eight things companies decide on, the five levels of trust a trades career builds through, and one thing to do this week.
The program, in brief
Trade Smart College: Apprenticeship Pathways is registered as a career college under the Ontario Career Colleges Act, 2005. It runs one program. Eight weeks of full-time classroom training in Hamilton build the foundation, and a 950-hour paid technical internship with a company partner is built on top of it.
The internship is earned in the classroom, and not every student passes. Every student is measured weekly on the same eight things Trades Match reads, so there are no surprises at the end, and there’s a real exit credential for students who complete the classroom phase without placing.
Parents are welcome in every conversation, and many conversations are mostly parent questions. That’s expected.