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TORONTO – The skills contests represented only one aspect of competition at the Toronto event.<\/p>\n

Another was the showcasing of dozens of careers at different trade booths, with exhibitors vying for the attention of the thousands of would-be trade workers wandering the aisles.<\/p>\n

Fourteen-year-old Siddart K., a Grade 8 student from Woodbridge, declared himself interested but uncommitted after a hands-on session at a UA booth dedicated to steamfitting and pipefitting. It was his first exposure to the trades, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, sort of,\u201d he said when asked if he was intrigued.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really know many options.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was kind of fun. I learned a lot of things just from this exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n

IBEW training centre instructor Peter Caesar of Kitchener said one of the first questions the students ask is how much money they will make. They also discuss new extensions of the electrical trades.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt changes a lot, there\u2019s always new technology,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got network cabling now. We didn\u2019t have anything there before but there is a lot of work there now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Electricians the \u2018rock stars\u2019<\/span><\/h3>\n

A colleague suggested the electricians are the \u201crock stars\u201d of the trades. Caesar agreed, saying they had received 300 applications for 16 positions for the latest round of training.<\/p>\n

\u201cElectrical, we can always get people,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the first thing you think of. A lot of times you think of electrical, plumbing, carpentry and after that people kind of don\u2019t know what\u2019s out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across the aisle, Aaron Rosenblum, an instructor in plumbing with Toronto\u2019s Humber College who worked in the field with UA Local 46 for 14 years, is well versed in the demographics of the construction workforce.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of retirement taking place, so we need to replenish the supply of tradespeople,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

There are very few high schools in the Toronto area that offer exposure to the trades, he said, so the Skills Ontario Competition is a good opportunity to have instructors and working tradespeople interacting with young people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of people out there who are mechanically inclined or who are very inclined to working with their hands,\u201d said Rosenblum. \u201cSeeing there is a product they can take pride in and produce on a daily basis, this is the first time they are getting to see that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Near the entranceway to the Congress Centre, Ontario\u2019s Ministry of Labour,\u00a0Immigration, Training and Skills Development had a prime spot to greet visitors. MOL employment and training consultant David Hartwick explained their exhibit space encouraged visitors to walk through a progression of games, set up to represent the three stages of becoming an apprentice.<\/p>\n

First is finding an employer; next is fulfilling classwork and on-the-job experience obligations; and third is writing the certificate of qualification exam.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea is that the ministry is going to be with them on their journey from when they start to when they are ready to write their certificate of qualification,\u201d said Hartwick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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