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A program is on a SkilledLadder school list because the state lists it. Any school can send a correction for free. A school can also pay to get requests from readers who ask it for information.
Your listing
Free
The figures come from the state: cost, length, results and which certificate a program counts toward. A school can’t change them, but it can send a correction with a source.
Send a correctionRequests from readers
$40 a request
A reader who wants to hear from your school presses Request info on your program and ticks a box. The request goes to your school only.
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How a request works
A reader asks
On your program’s card or page, a reader presses Request info, gives a name and an email, and a phone number and a question if they want. Nothing is sent until they tick the box, and they must be 18 or older.
Your school gets it
The request goes by email to the addresses your school picks, and into your school account.
You reply directly
SkilledLadder isn’t part of what happens next, and never emails the reader about your school.
What a school pays
- Price
- $40 a request, in US dollars, the same for every program. Never a fee for an enrollment, a start, a completion or a graduate.
- Billing
- One invoice a month, by email, due in 30 days. No setup fee and no minimum term.
- First invoice
- A $400 credit. Any part of it not used comes off the next invoices until it’s used up.
- Not billed
- A repeat from the same email for the same program within 90 days, spam, a request from someone under 18, and a request sent from a page that still showed Request info when your school reached its cap.
- Monthly cap
- Your school sets it. At the cap, the Request info button and the Paid listing tag hide until the 1st of the next month. Your place on the list doesn’t move.
- Stopping
- Turn requests off for one program or for the whole school, at any time. Your listing stays, because the state lists it.
What payment never buys
- A higher place on a list
- A change to your figures
- A featured spot. There are none.
- An email to a reader about your school
- Details beyond what the reader’s box names
Where requests are open
Requests are open to the schools on the list of electrician schools in Washington. Other states and trades get school lists one at a time. To hear when yours opens, ask to join and name your state.
Joining
Ask to join
Fill in the form with your work email at the school.
Ask to joinGet checked
SkilledLadder checks by hand that your email belongs to the school, against the school’s website.
Agree to the school agreement
Read the school agreement first. Then set a monthly cap for your school.
Turn requests on
Pick the programs that take requests. Readers see Request info on those programs from then on.
Common questions
My program isn’t on a list
SkilledLadder lists the programs the state lists. In Washington, that is Career Bridge, the state’s training directory, and the approved list of the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I). Once the state lists your program, it appears after the next update. To point one out, write to info@skilledladder.com with a link to the state’s record.
A figure is wrong or out of date
Send a correction with a link to the state’s record. If the state’s record is out of date, ask the state to update it. SkilledLadder shows what the state publishes.
Can a school pay to be first?
No. A list’s order comes from the sort the reader picks: lowest cost, shortest, or school name. Payment never changes it, and there are no featured places.
Can a school take its program off the site?
No, because the state’s records are public. A school can turn requests off at any time, and its listing stays as the state publishes it.
What happens to a reader’s details?
Your school gets only what the reader’s box names: name, email, phone if given, question if given, and the program. SkilledLadder keeps a copy for 90 days to bill you, then keeps only the program and the date. It never passes a request to another school, and never emails a reader about your school. A request a reader asks SkilledLadder to delete is still billed.
Run an apprenticeship program?
Listings and application dates are free. Send your opening and closing dates and how to apply to info@skilledladder.com.