Jobs available right now for Construction Apprentices in Northern Ireland This scheme could be right up your street Advertorial Aspiring apprentices, Rebecca McCleary (17) and Jake Bishop (18) with Amanda Stevenson from CITB NI At the end of last year, CITB NI, with funding from the Department for the Economy’s Apprenticeship Challenge fund, launched a new scheme called Apprenticeship Connect (NI) - Find, Match, Hire which aims to help match construction employers and prospective craft apprentices. Since then, the scheme worked with 25 companies and has identified over 40 opportunities which are now waiting to be matched with the right apprentices. If you are aged 16-24 yrs, and thinking about joining the construction industry, why not take the next step in your future by applying for an apprenticeship.