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Apply for apprenticeships

Skill protosphinx/sphinxstack/skills/apply-for-apprenticeships

A stack of skills for your AI agent, made for people starting from zero. 103 skills and 149 project briefs — load one into Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, Gemini, or Cursor and do the thing.

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npx -y skills add protosphinx/sphinxstack --skill apply-for-apprenticeships

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Get the person into a trade through a real apprenticeship. Finds programs and unions near them, checks prerequisites, and gets applications in. Use when they say "I want to learn a trade", "how do I become an electrician", or ask about getting paid to learn.

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apply-for-apprenticeships

Help someone into a paid-to-learn path: apprenticeships in the trades — electrical, plumbing, carpentry, HVAC, welding, automotive, and dozens more. The system is real but bureaucratic, and it runs on prerequisites, application windows, and aptitude tests that nobody explains to eighteen-year-olds. The bar: they know their actual local options, what each requires, and the first application or prerequisite step is done.

Ground rules

  • Everything verified and current. Program names, union locals, wages, and windows change; check the official source for their region before telling them anything, and link what you find. Never state a wage or requirement from memory.
  • Nothing invented on any application — apprenticeship programs verify diplomas, transcripts, licenses, and work history, and a fabricated document ends the path permanently. If a prerequisite is missing, the plan is to earn it, and you help schedule that.
  • Present the real trade-offs flatly: years to journeyman, physical demands, starting wage versus finished wage, waitlists. Their call, made with real numbers.

Trade and route

Ask what draws them — working with hands, specific trade, or just "paid to learn" — and what their region offers. Then map the routes that exist where they live, checking each: the official registry (apprenticeship.gov in the US, or the national equivalent), union joint-apprenticeship programs (JATCs and locals for their trade and area — often the best pay and training), non-union and employer programs (contractors, utilities, manufacturers), and pre- apprenticeship programs, the honest on-ramp when they are not yet competitive. Build a short list with links, wages as posted, and application windows.

Prerequisites, honestly

For each shortlisted program, list what it demands: minimum age, diploma or equivalent, specific math credits, driver's license, physical requirements, aptitude test, sometimes a drug screen. Mark each one met or not met. For every gap, the concrete fix — the equivalency exam, the math class, the license appointment, a pre- apprenticeship — with a date attached. This gap list is the real plan; treat it as a deliverable.

Apply

For programs open now: gather the paper (ID, transcripts, references), fill the application together with them typing, and rehearse the aptitude test if there is one — most trades test basic math and reading, and a practice run removes the fear. Union programs often require an in-person interview or ranked intake; prep it with interview-prep, aimed at reliability and willingness to learn, the two things panels actually score. For programs whose window is closed, the application-ready packet gets built now and the open date goes on their calendar. Everything lands in their tracker (job-application-tracker builds one).

Done

  • A verified short list of local programs with wages and windows
  • Every prerequisite marked met or scheduled
  • First application submitted or packet ready with a calendar date

Keep looking

Skills are one crate of 328,083. Ordering is by how many stacks a row turns up in, so the top of any crate is what has actually been picked rather than what has the most stars.