Employers: Are You Ready for RAP?
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Find out how Are you ready to get started in your RAP new career today! Registered for RAP? Visit our website or contact Apprenticeship and Industry Training at 1-800-248-4823 Apprenticeship (1-800-AIT-4823) toll free in North America. Are you focused and motivated? Outside North America, dial +1-403-476-9757 Program RAP lets you get a head-start on your (long distance charges will apply). career by helping you learn a trade as Apprenticeship and Industry Training office Your ticket to a great career. early as Grade 10. locations: Bonnyville Lethbridge You will have an employer eager Provincial Building, Floor 2 Provincial Building, Box 8115, 4902 - 50 Avenue Room 280, Floor 2 to give you an inside look at your T9N 2J4 200 - 5 Avenue South chosen trade. This valuable work T1J 4L1 experience will help you decide if Calgary Willow Park Centre, Suite Medicine Hat that trade is right for you while you 200, Floor 2 3021 Dunmore Road SE earn credits towards your high school 10325 Bonaventure Drive SE T1B 2H2 T2J 7E4 diploma – and wages too! Edmonton Peace River Seventh Street Plaza, South Midwest Building Follow your passion and start building Tower, Floor 7 Bag 900-28 your trades career today! 10030 - 107 Street 9715 - 100 Street T5J 4X7 T8S 1T4 Fort McMurray Provincial Building, Floor 7 Red Deer Box 19, 9915 Franklin First Red Deer Place, Floor 3 Avenue T9H 2K4 4911 - 51 Street T4N 6V4 Grande Prairie Slave Lake Towne Centre Mall, Suite 100 Slave Lake Government 9845 - 99 Avenue Centre, Suite 109 T8V 0R3 Box 787, 101 - 3 Street T0G 2A0 Hinton 564 A Carmichael Lane Vermilion T7V 1S8 Provincial Building, Floor 1 Box 26, 4701 - 52 Street T9X 1J9 tradesecrets.alberta.ca Employers: are you ready for RAP? a Employers looking for fresh, eager employees will want to consider RAP apprentices. It’s a great way to ensure your employees are trained the right I’m ready. Start learning Get way from the beginning, and the flexibility of the 1 Now what? 2 and earning. 3 certified! program allows you to fill your schedules. If you are an employer interested in hiring a RAP High school students interested in Work with your employer and your school After high school, continue to work and apprentice, follow these simple steps: pursuing RAP need to follow these steps: to develop a schedule. RAP is flexible, train in your trade with the goal of becoming meaning that you can work as an apprentice certified! About 80 per cent of your time will Find your match Pick a trade part-time throughout the year or choose to be spent working on the job. The rest of Find a high school student who is ready to There are approximately 50 trades work weekends and holidays to complete your time will be spent at a technical institute work, and eager to learn your business. You available in Alberta – find your match your hands-on work experience. As you start or college. After completing all necessary can contact a local RAP coordinator or school at tradesecrets.alberta.ca! No matter working, you will focus on safely learning work hours and technical training, you will counsellor to connect you with a student looking what your interests are – carpentry, required skills for your trade. become a certified journeyperson. for employment. construction, mechanics, welding, cooking – there is a trade for you. As you learn, you earn – both high school As a journeyperson, your future is limitless. Fill out the forms credits and wages! And as a RAP apprentice, You will be more employable, earn a better After the RAP apprentice completes the online Find an employer you also have scholarship opportunities income and have skills and knowledge application, you will be notified by email. The next step is to find an employer to hire available to you. you can carry into a variety of areas like Complete the employer portion of the online RAP and train you as a RAP apprentice. Your management, further education and apprenticeship application to verify the application school counsellor, local RAP coordinator self-employment. and agree to the terms and conditions. or Apprenticeship and Industry Training office can help you. Let the training begin! Working with your RAP apprentice and his or Fill out the forms Don’t wait – start earning her school, develop a schedule that works Complete the online RAP apprenticeship for everyone. You are required to pay at least application at tradesecrets.alberta. your certificate today! minimum wage, provide supervised training ca. Once you submit your application, and update your apprentice’s record book. The your employer will be sent an email with Government of Alberta is responsible for a RAP instructions to access your application for apprentice’s Workers’ Compensation coverage. confirmation of your RAP apprenticeship. If your school doesn’t offer RAP, contact Apprenticeship and Industry Training for information on how you can become a RAP apprentice. Visit tradesecrets.alberta.ca for more information. “RAP opened a lot of doors for Alberta me to the trades, provided the apprenticeship hands-on learning opportunities I prefer and gave me a head trades start on my career.” Jason Ellik, Heavy Equipment Check out designated occupations at Technician Apprentice and RAP tradesecrets.alberta.ca Scholarship Recipient. Agricultural Equipment `Boilermaker » Tower Crane Hairstylist » Structural/Ornamental Natural Gas Compression Powerline Technician Structural Steel and Technician Services and operates Fabricates, constructs and Technician Plate Fitter Builds, erects, repairs, tests Cuts and styles hair to suit Constructs, maintains traveling, xed, climbing or joins scaffolding, structural Maintains, repairs and and maintains all types of the client’s face and lifestyle Installs, commissions, or operates electrical Lays out, prepares and self-erecting type hoisting steel buildings, bridges, overhauls agricultural boilers, tanks and pressure Length of Program maintains and repairs distribution systems assembles structural steel, equipment with a vertical ornamental ironwork and equipment vessels › 2 years equipment used to gather, Length of Program steel vessels, containers and mast or tower and a jib pre-cast structures Length of Program Length of Program › two 10-week in-class store and transmit natural gas › 4 years miscellaneous components Length of Program Length of Program › 4 years › 3 years sessions Length of Program › three 7-week in-class Length of Program › 2 years › 3 years › four 8-week in-class › three 8-week in-class › 4 years sessions › 3 years › one 6-week in-class › three 6-week in-class sessions sessions Heavy Equipment › four 8-week in-class › three 8-week in-class session sessions Technician sessions Power System Electrician sessions Appliance Service Bricklayer Wellhead Boom Truck Performs all the tasks Reinforcing Installs, maintains and repairs Technician » » Outdoor Power Equipment Tilesetter Prepares and lays brick Sets up and operates described below under Heavy Places and ties reinforcing electrical generation systems Technician Installs, services and repairs and other masonry units hydraulic booms used for Duty Equipment Mechanic material, joins scaffolding, Length of Program Covers, repairs and appliances to construct and repair wellhead pumping, wireline, (Off-Road), Transport Trailer and performs post » Power Equipment › 4 years decorates walls, oors and Length of Program structures perforating, coiled tubing, Mechanic and Truck and tensioning Repairs and maintains › two 7-week and two other surfaces using ceramic, › 3 years Length of Program snubbing, and the rig-up Transport Mechanic Length of Program aerators, air compressors, 8-week in-class sessions* mosaic, marble and quarry › three 8-week in-class › 3 years and rig-out of slant service Length of Program › 2 years chippers, compaction tile, slate, stone, terrazzo or sessions › three 8-week in-class rig operations › 4 years › two 6-week in-class equipment, generators, Recreation Vehicle Service granite sessions Length of Program › four 8-week in-class sessions lawn tractors, mowers, Technician Length of Program Commercial Appliance sessions chain saws, seeders, 3 years » › 1 year Installs, repairs and maintains › Service Technician Cabinetmaker sprayers, snow removal two 8-week in-class › one 5-day in-class Landscape Gardener interior and exterior › Installs, services and repairs session Heavy Duty Equipment equipment, golf carts and sessions Builds and repairs custom or » Carries out landscaping components on motor commercial appliances Mechanic (Off-Road) utility vehicles production-type cabinets and operations including homes, trailers and campers Length of Program Electric Motor Systems Maintains, repairs and Length of Program Transport Refrigeration furniture, and architectural construction, maintenance Length of Program › 3 years Technician overhauls large off-road and › 3 years Technician millwork and selecting and installing › 3 years › two 8-week in-class industrial equipment such › one 6-week and two Length of Program Tests, rebuilds and repairs plants, trees, grass and › three 8-week in-class Installs and repairs heating sessions as bulldozers and graders 8-week in-class sessions › 4 years electric motors, generators, irrigation systems sessions and cooling equipment in Length of Program › four 8-week in-class transformers, controllers Length of Program mobile units used to haul Auto Body Technician › 3 years » Recreational Equipment sessions and related electrical and › 4 years Refrigeration and Air perishable cargo › three 8-week in-class Repairs and maintains