both. municipalities like to give college students internships where they groom them for the inspector position and then hire them as soon as they graduate.

city of toronto rarely hires inspectors in the transportation dept externally, most are college grads that interned with them, exceptions are middle-aged techs with yeaaars of experience. that's for the inspector position specifically. there are other positions like engineering technologist that take different types of people depending on their needs.

peel region hired a friend of mine as road inspector as soon as he graduated from uni. but he had interned with them the summer before.

dufferin construction often hires fresh college and uni grads and trains them quickly. but they like to hire guys with field tech experience on MTO sites. even better if you actually worked on a dufferin site. there are loads of seneca guys on dufferin sites.

i kno a EIT with no experience whatsoever who got a job as inspector with mcintosh perry and a fresh CET grad who got a job as construction administrator.

search on indeed for 'inspector', 'junior inspector', 'contract administrator', 'construction coordinator', 'junior project coordinator'.

if the job posting says 0-3 years experience, they're definitely willing to take new guys (means they can offer them a few dollars less). if the job posting says something like 1-3 or 1-5, it means they're open to hiring inexperienced guys.

my firm's job posting for tech position say requirements are EIT with 1-5 years of field or lab experience. additional assets are boat license, welding inspection cert, nace inspection inspection cert, ccil A, B, and C.

everyone they've hired in the last 2 years has been a fresh grad with no experience. many of whom didn't even study civil. so, LOL at their bullshit job posting.

don't be afraid to throw your resume at them.