TradesInfo.ca is a bilingual tool that will help you work or become certified in the trades in Canada. It is free of charge and available in English and French.

Complete Red Seal Skill Information

Through the Canadian Red Seal program, certified journeypersons and apprentices who have completed their training are able to obtain Red Seal Certificates of Qualification and Apprenticeship by successfully completing an Interprovincial Standards Examination. A complete list of the 49 Red Seal trades is available at www.tradesinfo.ca, click on TradesInfo and you will access the following for each of the trades:

• A general description of each trade including a video presentation and trade articles
• A detailed analysis and weighting of the specific skills, tasks and sub task of each of the trades
• A glossary of the Terminology and Tools for each trade
• Wage rates of each trade analyzed by Province and Region
• Description of the most important Essential Skills of each trade. Essential Skills are the basic skills that provide the foundation for learning all other skills and enable people to evolve with their jobs and adapt to workplace change. They include reading text, document use, numeracy, writing, oral communication, working with others, continuous learning, thinking skills, and computer use.
• Links to Institutions throughout Canada that provide trades training
• Links to Apprenticeship authorities throughout Canada
• Links to jobs by location

Skills Builder - Measure Your Trade Skills

Measure your competency with the Red Seals national standards and build a trades' portfolio of prior learning including:

• Percentage of the current level of completion
• Skills that need to be learned or upgraded in order to achieve trades certification

Career Web Profile that includes a Professional Resume

Quickly create your personal web site to showcase your skills. Send your profile and/or resume to employers all around the world. Just use the Skill Builder to measure your skills, the Resume builder to create your résumé, and then use TradesInfo.ca to send a link to your profile page.

Information Resources

Use the following features to create a professional trades focused resume that is targeted to employers and relevant to the trade you wish to get employment in:

• Interview Tips
• Job Search Tips
• Resume and Cover Letter writing
• Links to training institutions and financial assistance for training
• Links to Apprenticeship authorities throughout Canada
• Information about working in the Trades
• Workplace Safety
• Labour Standards
• Starting a business
• Woman in trades

Tool to Measure Your Trade Skills

Measure your competency with the Red Seals national standards and build a trades' portfolio of prior learning including:

• Percentage of the current level of completion
• Skills that need to be learned or upgraded in order to achieve trades certification

Tool to Measure Your Essential Skills

Essential Skills are those basic skills that we all need in order to be successful and efficient in our life. These are the skills that provide us with the foundation for learning the skills we need to do our jobs and to adapt to our workplace and to the changes in our lives and work.

In order to help us learn more about the skills needed in various occupations, the Government has development Essential Skills Profiles. These profiles help users to measure their essential skills in terms of real job experience.

Trade Resume and Cover Letter Template

The Resume and Cover Letter Builder is a template for a standard Trades Resume and Cover Letter. As you enter your personal information into TradesInfo your Resume and Cover Letter will be prefilled. You can then edit your Resume and Cover letter to your satisfaction.

The Resume will contain the skills you identified in Measure Your Skills, the Essential Skills you identified in Measure Your Essential Skills, your education, training and certification, your work experience and your career goals.

Career Action Plan

Your Career Action Plan provides you with the opportunity to set career goals and research the interventions that will enable you to achieve those goals.

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