trade skills
Hands-on work abilities
Trade skills are practical abilities learned for manual or technical occupations—carpentry, plumbing, welding, electrical work, auto repair.
The term distinguishes hands-on vocational expertise from academic knowledge or white-collar professions: Community colleges offer programs in trade skills.
Someone with trade skills can build, fix, or install things.
- blue collarManual labor workforce
- barberingCutting and styling hair
- automotive repairFixing motor vehicles
- tool beltWaist-worn equipment holder
- work bootsProtective footwear for labor
carpentry · baking · blacksmithing · glassblowing · cosmetology · farming · apprenticeship · masonry · jewelry making · electrical wiring · woodworking · roofing · metal fabrication · machining · leatherworking · culinary arts · plumbing · hands-on learning
- blue collarhard hat, blue collar, blue-collar jobs, factory work, manual labor
- practical learninghands-on, hands-on learning, learning by doing, experiential, vocational
- job trainingjob training, apprenticeships, vocational schools, vocational school, mentoring
- prison programsGED classes, GED programs, vocational training, drug treatment, anger management
- technical educationtechnical institute, technical training, vocational college, engineering school, polytechnics
- vocational trainingapprenticeship, apprenticeships, vocational school, vocational schools, vocational education
trade skillsbook learning
Knowledge from study
abstract reasoning · research skills · intellectual pursuits · liberal arts education · liberal arts
trade skillsformal education
Systematic study in institutions
classroom learning · degree programs · graduate studies · correspondence courses