apprenticeship

thumb|A shoemaker and his apprentice |alt=A photo of a man and a boy making shoes together. thumb|Electricians are often trained through apprenticeships.

Apprenticeship is a system for training potential new practitioners of a 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 experienced 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.