About

TradeStart started with a career-change question. The founder was working full-time in software and started looking into becoming an electrician. He expected it to be straightforward: find the right training, understand the apprenticeship pathway, and see who is hiring.

Instead, information was scattered — TAFEs and training providers in one place, apprenticeships across job sites, employers advertising on their own, plenty of advice but no simple place to see the opportunities together.

This isn't only a problem for career changers. School leavers, mature-age apprentices, people finishing a pre-apprenticeship, and existing apprentices looking for their next employer are all trying to answer the same question: Where do I start?

That's why TradeStart exists. It brings apprenticeship opportunities, training pathways and practical information together so getting into a trade is easier to understand and easier to act on.