Trainee vs. Novice — What's the Difference?

A trainee is commonly known as an individual taking part in a trainee program within an organization after having graduated from higher and technical courses. A trainee is an official employee of the firm that is being trained to the job they were originally hired for.

A novice is a person who has entered a religious order and is under probation, before taking vows. By extension, the term is used informally for a person or animal new to a particular field of endeavour.

One who is being trained.

A person new to and inexperienced in a job or situation

Someone who is still in the process of being formally trained in a workplace.

A person who has entered a religious order and is under probation, before taking vows.

A juvenile inmate being trained and (re)educated in a reformatory school.

A person new to a field or activity; a beginner.

Someone who is being trained

A person who has entered a religious order but has not yet taken final vows. Also called novitiate.

A beginner; one who is not very familiar or experienced in a particular subject.

(religion) A new member of a religious order accepted on a conditional basis, prior to confirmation.

One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.

One newly received into the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith.

One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist.

Like a novice; becoming a novice.

Someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows

Someone new to a field or activity