
<p><img class=" alignright size-full wp-image-985" src="http://schoolnewsnz.fastrackdev.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/SND06-WK1-News-Trade_300x225.jpg" alt="SND06-WK1-News-Trade 300x225" style="margin: 5px; float: right;" width="300" height="225" />Providing youngsters with a secure future is a goal that New Zealand Rugby League, The Skills Organisation and Competenz all share, and they have joined forces to deliver that message.</p>
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<p>The two industry training organisations have signed on as official sponsors of the NZRL Youth Elite development programme until the end of 2015 and are also naming-rights partners of the NZRL National Youth Tournament, now powered by Got a Trade? Got it Made!.</p>
<p>&#8220;More and more, we&#8217;re focusing on our young players&#8217; future beyond the game of rugby league,&#8221; NZRL chief executive Phil Holden says.</p>
<p>&#8220;While a long and successful professional and international career is every player&#8217;s dream, the reality is that they can&#8217;t afford to rely on football for their future.</p>
<p>&#8220;We recognise they need to make alternative plans, and The Skills Organisation and Competenz are ideal partners to help us drive this message.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s exciting to have these leading industry training organisations on board, as we begin to gather a strong group of partners around our NZRL Youth Elite programme.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Skills Organisation has already begun that relationship with a workshop at the recent NZRL National Performance Camp in Rotorua, showcasing apprentice <a class="wpil_keyword_link" href="https://www.schoolnews.co.nz/2015/10/developing-opportunities-at-school-with-a-view/" title="opportunities" data-wpil-keyword-link="linked" target="_blank">opportunities</a> in 21 different industries across New Zealand.</p>
<p><a class="wpil_keyword_link" href="https://www.schoolnews.co.nz/2015/10/young-tradies-lend-their-skills-for-school-project/" title="Trades skills" data-wpil-keyword-link="linked" target="_blank">Trades skills</a> really are for life,&#8221; Skills specialist trades and business general manager Lance Riesterer says. &#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled to be working with NZRL and these talented young people to build for a secure future.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Skills Organisation and Competenz are two of the industry training organisations behind the Got a Trade? Got it Made! campaign, which encourages active and practical young people to choose trade careers.</p>
<p>&#8220;Playing rugby league means being skilled and competitive on the field, while getting a trade makes you skilled and competitive in the workplace,&#8221; Competenz trades general manager Fiona Kingsford says.</p>
<p>The formalisation of this bond will see The Skills Organisation, Competenz and Got a Trade? Got it Made! feature prominently as part of the youth expo running alongside the NZRL National Secondary Schools Tournament being held from September 1-5 at Papakura.</p>

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