Welcome to WIN!
The WIN Network connects you with real professionals, mentors, and opportunities to explore, learn, connect, and grow.
Through WIN, you can discover different career pathways, hear directly from industry leaders, build connections and develop valuable skills that can help shape your future. Whether you are planning to go into an apprenticeship, college, university, or straight into the workforce, WIN helps you see what is possible and how to get there.
This is your chance to learn, ask questions, build confidence, and start creating the future that you want.
- Wondering what careers are actually out there?
- Unsure if college, university, an apprenticeship, or going straight into the workforce is the right fit for you?
- Worried about making the “wrong” choice right away?
You’re not alone — and you don’t have to have it all figured out yet!
Explore Educational Pathways
As careers continue to expand beyond traditional roles and the employment landscape evolves with even more diverse opportunities, students may consider exploring a variety of educational pathways. By combining different post-secondary options, students gain a rich and flexible educational experience that opens up a wide range of fulfilling career possibilities in the trades.
In Ontario, students have the ability to move between Apprenticeship, Certificate, Diploma, and Degree programs, as well as across Colleges, Universities, and Indigenous Institutes.
Understanding education pathways involves understanding credentials. A credential is an official document, such as a diploma or a degree. When you finish a program in Ontario, you earn a credential. This illustration below shows common education pathways, but the possibilities are endless.
Many successful careers are built by combining certificates, diplomas, and degrees over time to build skills, experience, and opportunities.
