Also known as PreVocational courses, these courses are often the best way to get an apprenticeship. Employers are often queued up waiting for the best graduates.

Most TAFE colleges run Pre-Apprenticeship courses at the start of the year and less later, unless they get lucky with funding. The company that organises a lot, but not all the preapprenticeship courses for TAFE is www.alliancepeople.com.au You should check out which college they have courses at and make conatct vis Allaince or the individual TAFE.

Most course run for months, but can then cut twice that amount of time off you trade time as an apprentice! You get to tradesperson wages faster!

Other training companies run preapprenticeship courses too. Try Skillswest on Castlereagh Road Ph 4721 0099 or google "preapprenticeship" and see what you can find.

Your Careers Adviser at School often has details of any courses running, but it is very common for notice of courses to only be a day or two in advance.

Another case of the quick and the dead.

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Good luck.