Pre-Apprenticeship Guide & Toolkit

Research

A Practical Resource For Workforce & Education Professionals

A pre-apprenticeship is a workforce preparation program designed to help individuals gain the skills, experience, and support they need to successfully enter and complete a Registered Apprenticeship Program (RAP).

Think of it as an on-ramp. Pre-apprenticeship doesn’t replace apprenticeship—it prepares
people for it. Typical programs run somewhere between 6 and 20 weeks and serve cohorts of 10 to 25 participants, though this varies by sector and region.