Four women from diverse corners of the construction sector offered a broad range of prescriptions to boost recruitment and retention of females in the trades during a panel session at the recent CANMechanical conference in Halifax.
Delegates heard from Canadian Apprenticeship Forum director of research and programs Emily Arrowsmith that the pandemic severely interrupted one cohort of apprentices, with registrations down 27 per cent in 2020, and that given weak completion rates, the sector needs to recruit approximately 250,000 apprentices over the next five years to ensure that around 125,000 new journeypersons emerge to meet demand across the Red Seal trades.
Panellist Brandi Ferenc is a licensed refrigeration mechanic/gas fitter journeyperson who teaches part-time in the HVAC program at Georgian College as well as working for Support Ontario Youth as a mentor. She has 20 years of insights into workplace culture. The CAF, he said, is helping to “understand better what it is apprentices are facing and what the people going through them are undertaking, how employers are relating to their apprentices and bringing people on, and where it all fits in the post-secondary space.”
“If you have a conversation or there’s some kind of accommodation that we can make, I think that is the first step,” she said.
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