All members were searchable on the college's Public Register, which was an online database that enables anyone to easily confirm the qualifications of any compulsory tradesperson or apprentice before hiring them to fix their toilet, wire their house, change their brakes or cut/colour their hair.

In 2015, former Secretary of Cabinet Tony Dean released a report making a number of recommendations to support the development of the College of Trades.

[6] The recommendations in the report encompassed many areas including governance models, noting that most professional organizations have some membership elected representation.

[8] However; the largest construction union in North America, LiUNA, has expressed cautious optimism and support for the report.

[9] Since the release of this report, several regulations based on its recommendations have been passed by government and the college has been working on the implementation of most of Dean's suggestions.