Thursday 25 April 2013

How you can get a Good Job with Experience

It is really a vicious circle for all who are starting their career that work experience is necessary to get trade jobs and trade jobs are necessary to get work experience. Just taking a course of the trade one wishes to practice is not sufficient to land a good job in the selected trade,  companies now do not wish to spend money and effort in training freshers; they want experienced people who will do the necessary job without much training or instructions.

Then how does one break this cycle of no work experience: no trade jobs and no trade jobs: no experience? The best way to do is through apprenticeships. The trade schools usually promise the students that they will be provided with apprenticeship in their particular trade and that in the regular course of things, the company offering the apprenticeship takes them up in regular jobs at the end of a successful apprenticeship.

It then seems simple for students to get work experience through apprenticeships and then get trade jobs to their liking! But before that they need to find a good trade school that teaches them the ropes of the trade they wish to practice; both theory and the practical aspects and also find the right apprenticeship with a good company that will subsequently absorb them in regular jobs. The outcome of this whole process will be greater employment and better artisans in every trade and most of all better service that is freely available from whatever trade that is needed.

Wednesday 24 April 2013

Now Start Your Trade Education in Australia

Formal education in humanities is to open your mind and in Science or Commerce is to improve your chances of succeeding in a career in business or production or some such. Generally schools and university education is far removed from the reality of real-life careers.  If a young student wants to take up a Trade Career such as carpentry or pottery or electrical fitting services or plumbing services, there is hardly a place where he can learn the ropes of the trade. There is hardly a trade college where he can get some theoretical knowledge and some practical experience.

Once upon a time, the right way to master a trade was to work under an experienced tradesperson for some years and then start your own trade practice. But these days it is difficult to apprentice under a skilled tradesperson such as a carpenter or tailor as individuals in a trade have diminished and usually a trade is carried out by a company which employs skilled and experienced people to do the job while the other corporate functions such as marketing, finances, planning etc. are taken care by other professional employees hired for the expertise. That is why a trade college teaching various trade skills has become important for the student who has a trade career on his mind.

A Trade College would be able to provide the basic requisite skills required for a trade career and also provide a knowledge base of theory and practice that are required before he can be taken up as an apprentice in a company that practices the trade. The trade college can recommend the student for the apprenticeship and get his trade career going!