Top 20 most popular traineeships in NSW
Want to learn on the job and get paid while you do it? With a traineeship you can. What’s more, many traineeships are currently fee-free in NSW. Start your search with the *20 most popular qualifications in NSW, with links to courses and training providers in your local area.
This qualification reflects the role of educators in early childhood education and care who work in regulated children’s education and care services in Australia.
This qualification reflects the role of early childhood educators who are responsible for designing and implementing curriculum in early childhood education and care services.
This qualification reflects the role of real estate professionals who apply knowledge of real estate practice legal agency and compliance requirements, ethical standards and consumer preferences to conduct real estate functions
This qualification reflects the role of individuals in the community, home or residential care setting who work under supervision to provide person-centred support to people who may require support due to ageing, disability or some other reason.
Want to prepare for a career in business administration? You'll learn fundamental skills. Individuals in these roles carry out a range of routine procedural, clerical, administrative or operational tasks that require technology and business skills.
This is a qualification for those engaged in supply chain operations and includes specialisations for logistics and warehousing operations.
This qualification reflects the role of individuals such as production operators, working in open cut coal or metalliferous mines or quarries, who perform tasks involving a broad range of skilled applications in a varied work context, using some discretion and judgement in selecting equipment, services or contingency measures.
This qualification provides a pathway to work in various hospitality settings, such as restaurants, hotels, motels, catering operations, clubs, pubs, cafés, and coffee shops.
This qualification is suited to a range of individuals who use well developed administrative skills and a broad knowledge base in a wide variety of administrative contexts.
This qualification reflects the role of a variety of workers who use a range of factual, technical and procedural knowledge to provide assistance to health professional staff for the care of clients.
This is a qualification for those engaged in driving operation job roles within the transport and logistics industry.
This qualification is for people working in supply chain jobs and offers special focuses on logistics and warehousing.
It covers a set of skilled tasks, usually part of broader activities using familiar routines and methods. Some decision-making is needed when choosing equipment, services, or backup plans within time limits. It may also involve managing the work of others.
This qualification reflects the role of individuals who have a range of well-developed hospitality service, sales or operational skills and sound knowledge of industry operations.
The qualification provides a pathway to work in a diverse range of retail settings including specialty retailers, supermarkets, department stores and quick service restaurants.
As well as assuming responsibility for their own performance, individuals at this level provide leadership, guidance and support to others.
This qualification is for workers who do various lab techniques—manual, semi-automated, and fully automated—to collect and prepare samples. They perform many basic tests and some specialist tests in different industries. They might help others fix technical problems, adjust formulas and production mixes, and train them to collect samples and do basic tests accurately.
Start your career in finance and gain the key skills needed for roles like banking officer, clerical officer, and more. Begin in entry-level positions in financial services, banking, and accounting.
This qualification reflects the role of cleaners responsible for undertaking a range of routine and non-routine tasks according to work schedules, liaising with clients and in some cases members of the public, and operating in a range of general residential and commercial settings as well as specialist cleaning environments.
This qualification is for people working in different human resources jobs, such as Human Resources Officer, Coordinator, or Payroll Officer.
What they do depends on their workplace. In small companies, they might handle all human resources tasks. In bigger companies, they may focus on just one part of human resources.
Education support workers mainly help students in primary or secondary school classrooms.
To earn this qualification, a person must complete at least 100 hours working in a classroom with primary or secondary students at one or more Australian schools. These hours can count toward all parts of the course that require practical experience.
*List of Top 20 apprenticeships currently in training at August 2026 is from the VET Public Dashboards.
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