RBC Women in Trades Blog

Bursary Drives Home Success For Automotive Technician Student

Marlene is confident in her skills as an Automotive Technician and loves nothing more than the challenge of digging around a broken vehicle with one goal in mind… to find the problem and fix it. She’s self-assured and happiest when covered in oil and grease and its part of the reason you’d never know that […]

Welcome Back Mixer

with more women coming into various trades programs over the past month alone, it seemed like the perfect time to take the opportunity for

Mentoring Hits the Mark for Welding Graduate

just as her education has brought her back to TRU continually over the past 10 years, so did life afterwards.

Lighting the Path to Success

to help promote to women that this is a really cool and environmentally supportive way of expanding your knowledge base

Teenagers and Trades Mix With Mind Over Metals Camp

Right now in Canada women make up five per cent of all welders and that’s pretty small.

May: Your Dreams Come True (Adrienne Nisyok)

As a continuation of May: Your Dreams Come True, where we feature TRU Red Seal female professionals, we are excited to interview Adrienne Nisyok. Adrienne Nisyok is a proud member of the Nisga’a Nation from the remote community of Gitlakdamix (New Aiyansh) located in Northwest British Columbia. Although she has primarily resided in the beautiful […]

First ‘Lunch and Learn’ of 2016 a great success!

About 24 students attended the first RBC Women in Trades ‘Lunch and Learn’ of 2016. The topic was Pathways to Apprenticeship and was facilitated by ITA Apprenticeship Advisor, Helen Poss. Women from electrical, heavy duty mechanics, plumbing, and the Aboriginal Women in Trades program were all in attendance. Helen was able to answer an assortment […]

Happy New Year- Be that 8%!

There’s something about ringing in a New Year that screams, “new year, new me!” and it is also a time when well intentioned New Year’s resolutions get made, only to be broken. Do you fit into this category? If you do, don’t be too hard on yourself as only 8% of people who make a […]

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