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Trent Konrad

Trent Konrad

Vice President, Business Development at CWB Group, the Canadian welding certification and training organization.

Aug 11, 2026

5:04
Let's take a chance," you know?
5:06
Yeah.
5:06
I mean, uh, like even just going back to my welding days, it, it was a lot of like, you know, like I ...
5:12
And, and still I'd work hard, but you know, send some resumes, right? Like oh, I want to get the big money site jobs.
5:17
Do you know what I mean? I don't want to necessarily work in this fab shop for the rest of my life, so I'm going to send out resumes.
5:23
And then you get the call, right? And it's like, "Hey, we're looking for an all-position flux-core welder, and it's in this community, and, and you're going to work, you know, 10 hours a day." And it's like you, you have all these reasons to say no, 'cause it's like I'm in a city that I'm comfortable with.
5:36
You know, maybe I got a girlfriend in that city.

9 MINS LATER

14:22
You know, 'cause, like, I feel like, you know, these big numbers that are thrown around about how many people we need in the industry, it's not just welders that we need, you know? And I feel like that's kind of a visibility thing that we could do better at, and so, like, the CWB, how do you guys go about showing people these different pathways?

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