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How to Get a Carpentry Apprenticeship
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let's go around here and today's
exciting episode I thought I'll talk
about apprenticeships I got a bit lucky
my old man was already a builder and he
was already in the industry and he
already had connections he was
responsible for hiring the different
builders and electricians and plumbers
people wanted to do him a favor because
he got them jobs you know so I kind of
had my pick my old man pulled me aside
and he just said look you either want to
be an electrician plumber or a builder
the electrician's get paid more plumbers
get paid more than them and the builders
get paid the least and they have to put
up with the most crap so I chose to be a
builder so I got lucky I had that sort
of entry into the business but say
you're trying to get into the business
now you're trying to maybe you've
watched these videos or videos like mine
and you think building's pretty cool
well
the easiest way to get into it is to
just start working for a builder so
that's first you want to get a job with
a builder you're not gonna get into
apprenticeship straightaway you know
unless a builder's desperate to get an
apprentice and or if you know them some
other way through family or something
then there's a good chance that you you
might be able to get an apprenticeship
straight away but builders want to
figure out if you have the right
attitude first and foremost before they
take you on as an apprentice because
they know from experience that it takes
a lot of character to get through an
apprenticeship they want to see that
you're a good dude basically now you
might be thinking Scott but I don't even
have the foot in the door in the first
place I can't even find someone who's
willing to hire me as a laborer well
that's a hard one and I don't know how
to answer that
it isn't clear already I'm talking New
Zealand specific when it comes to
getting an apprenticeship because that's
what I know and even within New Zealand
I can't tell you how to get a job maybe
you have to the cold core maybe you have
to walk on a building sites and just
show that your cane and just say hey man
do you guys need a young guy to give you
a hand all right let's go back to the
job and discuss a little bit more about
getting an apprenticeship
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hey buddy have a coffee man so this a
couple of organizations here in New
Zealand that sort of facilitate the
apprenticeship yeah there's BCIT oh
there's aia tabs this is probably more I
figured rather me just telling you what
you could do why don't we why don't we
just try and call one of them now and
pretend that I need an apprenticeship
here's a number of you interested in how
do I go about it I do
what about tones is there an expectation
to have a certain amount of tools
awesome I appreciate your help Brittany
yeah thanks have a good day I don't
usually do hey that's how you get an
apprenticeship with BCIT Oh anywhere you
need to yeah you need to have a car I've
said that in previous videos when I
thought about being a builder you need
to have a car in Oakland it's just a
lettuce and you need to be proactive you
need to go and trade me you know you
need to be willing to work as a laborer
if that's what it takes to you know get
in with a company if I've got enough
work to hire someone I want to see what
kind of person they are and then decide
whether I want to work with them for
four years
you know so you've got to think getting
the head of the potential employer and
and and prove yourself and show that
you're King and if you watching my
videos already there's probably a good
chance you'll Kane and you probably
you're probably interested enough in
building already I know when I started I
was not interested so you already hated
me
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so I hope that was helpful for people
looking for an apprenticeship if you've
got any questions ask below I have had a
lot of questions about apprenticeships
so that's what made me do this video
Brittany did a really good job so even
got much to do here today we are
currently going to make a little pretend
mock-up been sort of kitchen island
because this kitchen in here it's going
to be completely redesigned and we want
to sort of visual representation of what
could be there in the future now I get a
lot of people asking me if I need an
apprentice and whether they could work
for me or not my full-time job is trying
to keep me and part of it busy and
sometimes I don't succeed at that so to
take on the third person would be would
be a bit of a challenge for me right now
but it's not to say that I want to do it
in the future and I like the idea of
having an apprentice feel like could
make some great videos
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