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Get your apprentice ready for Off-Job Training. Everything you teach counts towards your apprentice being ready to attend their course and progress in their qualification.
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Get your apprentice ready for Off-Job Training
Help your apprentice get the most out of their off-job training experience. Everything you teach counts towards your apprentice being ready to attend their course and progress in their qualification.
Get your apprentice ready for Off-Job Training
6 Steps to Set Your Apprentice Up for learning Success
Helping your apprentice get the most out of their off-job training is easy - just follow these steps.
Everything they do in off-job training moves them closer to qualification - your support makes all the difference!
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When signing up, chat with your BCITO Training Advisor about the work you do daily. Here: BCITO
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Break down qualification tasks with your Training Advisor.
See how everyday jobs help build the right skills.
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Schedule your apprentice on jobs where they can see, do, and learn skills that match their training.
Make it easy for you - add a column to your pricing template and tick the job tasks that connect to your apprentice’s qualification.
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Before you start a job tell your apprentice what parts of the job they’re going to do, why and how they should do it.
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Take 30 minutes a month to catch-up to make sure they’re on track for their off-job course.
Share this with your BCITO Training Advisor.
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Set aside 15 minutes to watch GGINZ Tutor training videos together – have a chat - these reinforce key techniques.
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Before their first off-job course, encourage them to practice measuring glass, recording job details, and safely cutting glass.
Questions Employers
often ask
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Conscientiously mentoring your apprentice pays dividends and builds success. Your apprentice will be motivated to achieve because they will feel supported and valued. They will be more likely to stick around, which contributes to a great business culture and feeds stability. Take a look at BCITO research Grow Your Profit.
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Off-job training at GGINZ provides up to 80 hours over 2 weeks each year of hands-on projects and theory that directly support your apprentice’s qualification. With one-on-one guidance from experienced glazier tutors who work in the trade, apprentices build skills in a safe, supportive space. It’s a place to learn by doing, reflect, and improve - focusing on good work practices and raising industry standards to help grow a high-quality workforce.
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Find details on all courses here.
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In collaboration with BCITO, GGINZ Year 1 apprentices spend an hour with Tai Tupou, founder of The Last Chance Project, who has spent a decade supporting mental health across schools, organizations, and sports teams in Aotearoa.
BCITO provides full EAP support to all employers and apprentices to create happier, healthier workplaces. And best of all, it’s free. Call 0800 327 669 or check out these links
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The GGINZ is a drug and alcohol-free environment. GGI has a zero-tolerance. Read a summary of the Glass and Glazing policy here.