{"id":56630,"date":"2017-08-08T13:39:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T17:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skillscompetencescanada.com\/?p=56630"},"modified":"2021-08-11T14:16:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T18:16:39","slug":"transcanada-blog-consider-career-skilled-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skillscompetencescanada.com\/en\/transcanada-blog-consider-career-skilled-trades\/","title":{"rendered":"TransCanada Blog: Why you should consider a career in the skilled trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5309 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.skillscompetencescanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/transcanadalogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"128\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcanada.com\/en\/stories-container\/community\/why-you-should-consider-a-career-in-the-skilled-trades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jobs in the skilled trades are long-lasting, well-paying gigs that open up a lot of doors for future career options.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jobs in the skilled trades are long-lasting, well-paying gigs that open up a lot of doors for future career options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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