Pre-employment: Learning in Action
Trades
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Dana Gard-Sweeney
Trades Enrolment Specialist
780 853 8445
780 214 1257
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Pathway to employment
Pre-employment programs give you a chance to experience what your chosen trade will be like.
While you have classroom time, you’ll also have a lot of lab time to get the feel of being an automotive service technician, electrician, carpenter or welder.
Once you finish your technical training on campus, you step into your trade for your practicum.
We find you a placement with an industry partner and give you real world experience. Your practicum placement may even lead to a job opportunity.
Skills
- Demonstrate knowledge of mechanical and electrical fundamentals
- Apply organizational and manufacturer specifications
- Select, use and maintain specialty tools
- Perform maintenance on steering systems
- Inspect, test and analyze suspension systems
- Repair braking and steering systems
- Apply legislation, regulations and practices ensuring safe work
- Use standard practices for climbing, lifting, rigging and hoisting
- Use hand tools, portable power tools and stationary power tools
- Construct foundation systems and footings
- Interpret working drawings and construction documentation
- Apply math concepts using both metric and imperial systems of measurement
- Use drawings, diagrams, schematics and specifications
- Select, use and maintain measurement instruments
- Interpret and apply the CE Code
- Connect and analyze resistive circuits
- Analyze electrical systems
- Assemble oxyfuel equipment
- Perform oxyfuel cutting
- Describe electrical concepts
- Identify distortion and methods of control
- Perform fillet and groove welds on mild steel
- Perform FCAW and MCAW operations in multiple positions
- Solve problems involving geometric formulas
Check out the gallery below to see pre-employment students hands-on in their labs.
