Apprenticeships and Traineeships in Victoria
What is an apprenticeship or traineeship?
Apprenticeships or traineeships are formal training arrangements between an employer and an employee. Sometimes this also involves a host employer.
An apprentice and trainee combines work and study to get a qualification, certificate or diploma. An apprenticeship or traineeship can be full-time, part-time, school-based apprenticeships or school-based traineeships and can be undertaken by anyone who’s old enough to work.
An employee is classed as an apprentice or trainee if their training is registered and recognised by the relevant state or territory training authority or done under a relevant law. The state and territory training authorities determine which qualifications are apprenticeships and which are traineeships in each state or territory.
What steps are involved in employing an apprentice or trainee?
Before an employee can start an apprenticeship job or a traineeship job, the employer (Victorian Group Training) and the employee need to register the training with the relevant state or territory training authority. This is also known as signing up.
The arrangement is a contract between yourself as the host employer, the group training organisation (VGTC) and the employee.
Victorian Group Training can assist you in finding a suitable employee to undertake an apprenticeship or traineeship in your business. This might include trial periods before an official sign up occurs.
Victorian Group Training takes the following steps once a suitable employee has been found:
