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Northern Virginia Building Trades Apprenticeships
Building Trades Unions offer apprenticeships, which are opportunities for local residents to enter careers in the skilled trades. The building trades include many different skilled crafts such as electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians, pipefitters, carpenters, sheet metal workers, millwrights, painters, iron workers, laborers, boilermakers, elevator constructors, bricklayers, and more. These crafts provide free training – both in the classroom and on-the-job – during which apprentices “earn while they learn,” including good wages, family health care, and retirement benefits.
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Virginia Works Registered Apprenticeship Program
Whether you are looking for your first job, a better job, or your dream job, the earn-while-you learn model of Registered Apprenticeship can help you get there.
Apprenticeship is open to anyone the age of 16 or older. Apprenticeship is for High School students, career-switchers, veterans, military dependents, business start-ups, returning citizens, emerging industries, dislocated workers, expanding companies, immigrants, individuals with disabilities, family businesses, relocating corporations, low-income individuals – all who wish to contribute are welcome. Most industries support occupations that are considered “apprenticeable”.
Throughout the Commonwealth, Registered Apprenticeship Consultants stand ready to assist Employers and apprentices. Employers seeking to adopt Registered Apprenticeship intentionally and voluntarily agree to the premises of the model as an ideal way to train their talent in a specific occupation. To learn more, click here.
WIOA Eligible Training Providers List
To review the list of Council-approved WIOA Eligible Training Providers and their programs, visit the Virginia Workforce Connection.
You may select a WIOA Eligible Training Provider that has been approved by another local workforce development board. Please note, the Alexandria/Arlington Regional Workforce Council does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any services available or unavailable from, or through, any of the Eligible Training Providers listed on Virginia Workforce Connection. Should you have questions, contact David Remick at dremick@arlingtonva.us.
Are You A Training Provider? Would You Like To Be Added To Virginia's WIOA Eligible Training Providers List?
To apply for consideration to be included on Virginia's WIOA Eligible Training Provider List, please go to Virginia Workforce Connection and apply using the "Provider" link at the bottom of the webpage.