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Skilled Trade Jobs: Entrepreneur

If you’ve been around Truewerk for a bit, you’ll notice we’ve been talking about trading up. But what does Trade Up really mean? To us, it represents the decision to take your creativity, passion and intelligence into...

The Skilled Trades Are A Step Up

“My mother calls it ‘The Order of Precedence’. Which goes something like: finish high school, go to college, get married - very traditionally boomer expectations in my opinion.” This was the path Truewerk’s Head of Marketing had...

SUPPORTING WOMEN IN THE TRADES

There’s a misconception that the skilled trades are “manly” careers. Given that women make up about nine percent of the construction workforce and only three percent of the building trades, it’s no surprise that men are statistically and culturally...