How Far Will Your Skills Take You?

SkillsUSA helps turn your dreams into reality with a faster, less expensive route to stable, well-paying jobs.

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Every person deserves to make a living wage working a job they love.

We all want to find a career we’re really good at. But securing a well-paying job doing something you love is tough—especially if you are not equally represented in the skilled trades.

At SkillsUSA Florida, we empower women, nonbinary individuals, and students of color to become world-class workers and leaders so they can support themselves and their families.

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SkillsUSA helps turn your dreams into reality with a faster, less expensive route to stable, well-paying jobs.

SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce. Together, we help every student excel and become champions at work.

We get it—navigating the job landscape can be tough. Gaining work experience, managing apprenticeships, and navigating interviews can be overwhelming—especially without training and support.

Through the online SkillsUSA Career Essentials suite, you can engage in defining, implementing, and measuring your career-readiness skills along every point in your educational journey.

This way, you can turn your dreams into reality with a faster, less expensive route to stable, well-paying jobs.

Successful completion of the program shows employers that you have career-readiness competencies and can demonstrate your ability to successfully contribute to your place of work.

77% of our alumni report they immediately pursued full-time employment or postsecondary education in the same field — or a directly related field — that they studied while a SkillsUSA student.

The SkillsUSA Framework is the foundation for all SkillsUSA educational programs, resources and products. The Framework — updated in 2020 — is divided into three main components, and a total of 17 “Essential Elements” are divided among those three components. The Framework Essential Elements were developed with the direct input of over 1,000 employers. They represent the skills employers consider the most crucial for a successful hire.

Help an elementary or middle school student discover the possibilities of STEM.

Through the Student2Student Mentoring program, you demonstrate your leadership and skills by mentoring younger students in elementary or middle school. You’ll have a chance to talk about and demonstrate your skills while inspiring future engineers, electricians, computer scientists, and more. 

Nervous? Don’t worry. We’ll share our curriculum guides with you so you can feel confident talking with elementary and middle school students about careers in STEM.

Compete head to head against your fellow SkillsUSA members for your chance to advance to the State Leadership and Skills Conference.

Fall Leadership Conference

The skills you need to be an effective leader are all in one place: MAXIMIZE. The SkillsUSA Florida Fall Leadership Conference is your opportunity to learn more about how to grow as a leader, network with peers and employers from across the state, and MAXIMIZE your potential as a future leader in Florida’s workforce.

State Leadership and Skills Conference

The State Leadership and Skills Conference is the premier CTE event in the state of Florida. The top students in over 100 different skill and leadership competitions gather to compete against their peers for a chance to advance to the National Leadership and Skills Conference.

The event also features a career fair, community service, opportunities to connect with business and industry, business partner connections, community service, and more.

We get it—navigating the job landscape can be tough.

Gaining work experience, managing apprenticeships, and navigating interviews can be overwhelming—especially without training and support.

SkillsUSA helps turn your dreams into reality with a faster, less expensive route to stable, well-paying jobs.

  • 77% of our alumni report they immediately pursued full-time employment or postsecondary education in the same or similar field they studied while a SkillsUSA member.

  • 372,655 students and instructors nationwide.

  • 13.6 million members served cumulatively since 1965

How to Sign Up

Joining SkillsUSA Florida is Simple

Contact Your SkillsUSA Advisor

Reach out to your school’s SkillsUSA advisor or CTE teacher and let them know you’re interested in joining. 

Pay Your Membership Dues

Membership to SkillsUSA Florida is less than $20/year. 

Develop Your Skills

Feel confident knowing you have the skills needed to thrive in the workplace.

Tell your advisor you’re ready to join SkillsUSA today.

Reach out to your advisor ASAP to let them know you’re ready to join SkillsUSA Florida.

Here’s a template email/text/convo you can use to sign up.

Email & Text Prompt

Hi Teacher,

I’m ready to join SkillsUSA! Would you be so kind to help me get registered? I’ve included the necessary information you’ll need for my membership application below.

  • Name: [Insert Name]
  • Birthdate: [Insert Birthdate]
  • Email: [Insert Email Address]
  • Phone: [Insert Phone]
  • Address: [Insert Address]

I’m looking forward to joining SkillsUSA.

Thank you!

[Your name]

Building America’s Future Workforce

  • Develop SkillsUSA Framework skills.
  • Build confidence.
  • Enhance their résumé.
  • Explore career paths.
  • Obtain scholarships and work opportunities.
  • Network with peers, teachers, mentors and industry representatives.
  • Achieve a sense of accomplishment and belonging.
  • Develop teamwork experience.
  • Practice hands-on application of skills.
  • Participate in local, state or national competitions.

Students in SkillsUSA Florida will:

  • Participate in meaningful career exploration.
  • Be part of a high-quality peer group.
  • Take advantage of internship, mentorship and employment opportunities.
  • Learn useful skills to be self-sufficient and self-supporting.
  • Discover opportunities for scholarships, grants or prizes.
  • Avoid unnecessary student loan debt.
  • Become a more highly engaged student and citizen.
  • Make education and career choices that are validated by industry.

  • Align their teaching vision with SkillsUSA programming.
  • Demonstrate their belief that every student has value and purpose.
  • Motivate all students to reach their potential.
  • Provide practical tools to ensure every student is career ready.
  • Save time by using SkillsUSA’s turnkey educational resources.
  • Receive administrator/community support for their training program.
  • Earn state and national recognition and chapter/program grants.
  • Participate in professional development and peer-to-peer networking.
  • Connect with program graduates/alumni for program support.
  • Use intentional strategy/guided instruction in Framework integration.
  • Measure student growth via SkillsUSA certifications and credentials.
  • Measure and demonstrate classroom success.

Through SkillsUSA, administrators can:

  • Provide teachers with support, professional development and recognition.
  • Gain community support for the school and programs.
  • Build positive professional connections.
  • Measure school/program success against state and national standards.
  • Demonstrate consistent and increased achievement.
  • Help students build transferable skills.
  • Provide credentialing opportunities for students and teachers.
  • Create more workforce placements.
  • Meet Perkins V and ESSA requirements.

Counselors can:

  • Identify student interest and develop career pathways.
  • Support career planning and guidance efforts.
  • Help students graduate with workplace credentials.
  • Foster workplace/work-based learning experiences.
  • Expand their knowledge of career opportunities.
  • Serve students involved in multiple career clusters via one organization.
  • Support CTE teachers more effectively.