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{{Short description|Training for trades}}
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[[File:Apprenticeship.jpg|thumb|A [[shoemaker]] and his apprentice {{Circa|1914}}|alt=A photo of a man and a boy making shoes together. ]]
[[File:Electrician Mike Hughes Installing Meter Base.jpg|thumb|[[Electrician]]s are often trained through apprenticeships.]]

'''Apprenticeship''' is a system for training a potential new practitioners of a [[Tradesman|trade]] or profession with [[on-the-job training]] and often some accompanying study. Apprenticeships may also enable practitioners to gain a license to practice in a regulated occupation. Most of their training is done while working for an employer who helps the apprentices learn their trade or profession, in exchange for their continued labor for an agreed period after they have achieved measurable competencies.

Apprenticeship lengths vary significantly across sectors, professions, roles and cultures. In some cases, people who successfully complete an apprenticeship can reach the "[[journeyman]]" or professional certification level of competence. In other cases, they can be offered a permanent job at the company that provided the placement. Although the formal boundaries and terminology of the apprentice/journeyman/master system often do not extend outside [[guild]]s and [[trade union]]s, the concept of on-the-job training leading to competence over a period of years is found in any field of [[skilled worker|skilled labor]].
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