Apprentices & Careers

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How can Master Builders Victoria help your Career?

As the future of our industry, we want to see you become an important part of your local building community and go on to have long, successful and rewarding careers. We can support you by providing advice and information on career pathways, celebrating your achievements through our Apprentice of the Year Awards and allowing you to apply for scholarships that can help give you that extra kick-start to your career.

  • Student

    Student

  • Pre-Apprenticeship

    Pre-Apprenticeship
    A pre-apprenticeship is an introductory course and will give you a set of basic skills, to help equip you for an apprenticeship. It generally takes around 12 weeks full-time.

    VET VCAL

    VET VCAL
    Studies providing work-related skills can often be included within your senior secondary certificate (either VCE or VCAL).
  • Apprenticeship

    Apprenticeship

    Apprenticeship
    An apprenticeship generally takes 3-4 years, and combines on-site learning with an employer, plus trade school at a TAFE or training provider.
  • Qualified

    Qualified

    Qualified
    Once you’ve completed your apprenticeship you are qualified. Continue to build your skills through experience and further training.
  • Qualified Carpenter

    Qualified Carpenter

    Qualified Carpenter
    Once you’ve completed your apprenticeship you are qualified. Continue to build your skills through experience and further training.
  • Student

    Student

  • Pre-Apprenticeship

    Pre-Apprenticeship
    A pre-apprenticeship is an introductory course and will give you a set of basic skills, to help equip you for an apprenticeship. It generally takes around 12 weeks full-time.

    VET VCAL

    VET VCAL
    Studies providing work-related skills can often be included within your senior secondary certificate (either VCE or VCAL).
  • Apprenticeship

    Apprenticeship

    Apprenticeship
    An apprenticeship generally takes 3-4 years, and combines on-site learning with an employer, plus trade school at a TAFE or training provider.
  • Qualified

    Qualified

    Qualified
    Once you’ve completed your apprenticeship you are qualified. Continue to build your skills through experience and further training
  • Qualified Bricklayer

    Qualified Bricklayer

  • Landscaper

    Landscaper

  • Pre-Apprenticeship

    Pre-Apprenticeship
    A pre-apprenticeship is an introductory course and will give you a set of basic skills, to help equip you for an apprenticeship. It generally takes around 12 weeks full-time.

    VET VCAL

    VET VCAL
    Studies providing work-related skills can often be included within your senior secondary certificate (either VCE or VCAL).
  • Apprenticeship

    Apprenticeship

    Apprenticeship
    An apprenticeship generally takes 3-4 years, and combines on-site learning with an employer, plus trade school at a TAFE or training provider.
  • Qualified

    Qualified

    Qualified
    Once you’ve completed your apprenticeship you are qualified. Continue to build your skills through experience and further training.
  • Qualified Landscaper

    Qualified Landscaper

  • Student

    Student

  • Pre-Apprenticeship

    Pre-Apprenticeship
    A pre-apprenticeship is an introductory course and will give you a set of basic skills, to help equip you for an apprenticeship. It generally takes around 12 weeks full-time.

    VET VCAL

    VET VCAL
    Studies providing work-related skills can often be included within your senior secondary certificate (either VCE or VCAL).
  • Apprenticeship

    Apprenticeship

    Apprenticeship
    An apprenticeship generally takes 3-4 years, and combines on-site learning with an employer, plus trade school at a TAFE or training provider.
  • Qualified

    Qualified

    Qualified
    Once you’ve completed your apprenticeship you are qualified. Continue to build your skills through experience and further training.
  • Qualified Cabinetmaker

    Qualified Cabinetmaker

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2024 State Apprentice of the Year Award Winners

State Apprentice of the Year

Perin Breakell

Developing Leader Award

Perin Breakell

Future Builder Award

Dale Harris

Structural & Finishing Trades Award

Matilda Ould

Hear from Apprentices

Take a look at the following videos to hear from apprentices across Victoria.

Find out what the favourite parts of their jobs are and why they love working in the industry, what useful advice they can provide to you if you’re thinking about doing an apprenticeship and take a look at some fantastic projects they’ve worked on.

Carley Attard 2021 MBV Apprentice of the Year
2021 MBV State Apprentice of the Year – Carley Attard
2021 MBV Metropolitan of the Yeatr - Jack Blokkeerus
2021 MBV Metropolitan Apprentice of the Year – Jack Blokkeerus
2021 Regional Apprentice of the Year - Joshua McCall
2021 Master Builders Victoria Regional Apprentice of the Year – Joshua McCall

Continuing Professional Development

Our Careers Team provide outreach across Victoria to showcase the benefits of a career in construction.

TAFE roadshows

We bring our Apprentice Roadshows to TAFEs and training providers in both metropolitan and regional locations across Victoria. These roadshows allow us to talk face-to-face with trade apprentices and discuss how we can help them navigate through their career. We are also joined by our industry sponsors to talk about relevant products and services. Apprentices can also get their hands on some great giveaways too.

Career expos & engagement with schools

We participate in a number of careers expos and school career days across Victoria to spread the word about the opportunities in the construction industry. If you would like us to attend your expo or event, please email ca*****@mb**.au

A career in the building and construction industry is a great choice for women

Currently only about 13.3% of the construction workforce is made up by women and we’d like to see that percentage increase. Traditionally, the industry has been seen as male-orientated, but this need not be the case.

At Master Builders Victoria, we understand that the building and construction industry offers a wide range of diverse roles that can be suited to anyone and everyone.

Women are welcomed and appointed into varied roles in both small and large construction companies and are achieving tremendous success. Take Carley Attard, Master Builders Victoria 2021 Apprentice of the Year, as a great example. Carley undertook an apprenticeship in Engineering – Fabrication Trade, working in steel fabrication. Now she’s completed her apprenticeship, she’s not only a qualified boiler maker, but is a team leader at her company managing others on site! Carley is a fantastic role model and her career to date demonstrates the success that young women can aspire to.

Have a read below at what some inspiring women have to say about how they got into the industry, the rewards of their roles in building and construction and some of their words of wisdom if you are considering a career in construction.

Stefanie, Carpenter and Site Manager
I’d like to encourage women to take up trades in the future and I’d like to promote the industry to women as a lot of women can be scared, because it’s more male dominated, to join the industry. It is possible, and women are just as capable of doing it as men.

Courtney, Painter and Decorator
The main reward for working in the industry is seeing the client’s reaction to your work and the happiness they get from it.  Nothing beats it.Ebony, JoinerI tried uni, but it just wasn’t what I really wanted to do. I just knew that I wanted to work hands-on in the building industry and I found a job as a joiner. I couldn’t think of doing anything else now – I really enjoy it.

Emily, Carpenter
I love doing the fix, like hanging doors. It takes a bit of skill and an eye for detail to really get things finished. I love what I do. I love this industry. I’d like to start a business with females and I’d love to get more females in to carpentry.

Ruby, Carpenter
I just love that you can get to create things. It’s really great to look back at it and think, ‘I actually did that’. Carpentry is such a great thing to learn and to have those skills is really good. I just love everything about it.

Taylah-Anne, Joiner
An apprenticeship was something that I always had in the back of my mind but being female, I wasn’t sure how it was going to go. I just went for it and I’m really glad I did. I’d like to encourage and give people confidence to see that there’s so many different pathways out there

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