Have You got What it Takes?

To compete at the very highest level and represent your country is a huge privilege and takes years of honing your skill.

Competitors in the UK would have progressed through a series of local, regional and national competitions that are run every year. Each competition stage gets tougher but the experience is highly valuable – you meet great people whilst you learn and improve your skills!

If you compete in a UK final and do well enough, you may be asked to attend a Squad UK selection event. Successful candidates at this stage are then invited to undertake an intensive skills based training programme (which usually lasts 16 weeks). Throughout this training, you are assigned a training manager who is a UK technical expert in their field.

Following this process, individuals are chosen for Team UK – the actual team of competitors who will represent their country at the WorldSkills International level competition. The WorldSkills Calgary 2009 Team UK was chosen from several thousand competitors across the country!

Should you make it as far as this stage you will then undergo even more skills based training to refine your skills to world-class standards.

Local skills competitions will launch across Wales and the UK in October 2009. Watch this space to find out more and be in with a chance of representing your country at the next international competition when it comes to WorldSkills London 2011.

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