Fast Track Training - yes or no?

[russty]

Tell the salesman to stick his course up his a**e cause thats where he's talking from!!

 

[morph]

If your prepared to do the 2330 and 2382 then it is worth doing and even better if you do 2391, if you only want to do a part p course then probably not worth doing, there is work for good quality sparks. the course is obviously very intense but if you can hack that then go for it the 2330 course is about 20 weeks i think, it normally takes 2 - 3 years.

Bit late with my enquiry on fast tracking, but after a visit from a salesman from Train 4 Trade Skills earlier today, prompted by their claims that the electrical industry is desperate for qualified tradespeople, I thought I should check out this avenue more thoroughly. I am currently unemployed and 54 years old with some experience of self employment. They are offering training to NVQ level 3 taking in C & G qualifications levels 2 and 3 including 2382, 2330, 2391 with practical exam, plus AM2, Which I am assured will allow me to work in domestic situations on a self employed or contracted basis with appropriate access to insurance liability cover. The cost of home study with two or three hands on week long residential courses is £5770 in total repayable at £135 monthly, but as an unemployed person if I could be sure there is a demand for people out there I may be persuaded that this would be a worthwhile investment. Be really grateful to hear the grass roots opinion on realistic earnings levels and amount of work available in current economic climate from anybody who would be kind enough to spare the time to reply.

 

[Bigboy247]

I take my hat off to you, thats a great deal of book work. The way I would look at is
C & G 2330 level 2 & 3.
C & G 2382 17th Edition,
C & G 2391 level 3
NVQ 2356 do when you have work to build your portfolio.= JIB gold card.
Part P if you are looking at just doing domestic ,but never hurts if they throw it in free.
That will give you a very good understanding and basic skills to get on the job ladder, where you will pick up the nuts and bolts and tricks to make life easyer. But you will only as good as the people you work with and depends on the environments you do. I wish you well as its a dog eat dog world but keep trying and shop around see who is local and gives you the best price and go see them have a good look at training ask about.

 

[Sparky Ninja]

If ever people try to make this decision I tell them to look on the job sites at what they expect an electrician to be..

 

[millwall ken]

Mate, you can have every ticket in the world but it doesn't mean zip without some experience to go alongside it. Would you trust a Doctor who was to carry out life saving surgery on you if he had no actual experience? The thing with these fast track courses is mate, is that once you've got the paperwork, you'll expect the same pay as someone who has the experience to match your quals.

 

[matt456]

I say that at least your doing something to get a job rather than dole scrounging!!
But there is NOT a serious shortage of electricians, the guy is a salesman selling training of course he will say that! Where i live there are loads of companies looking for work and there isnt enough for everyone.
The best route is to try and get an electricians mate job as a route in then do night classes and do it that way as you will not be a spark in 6 weeks!
6 week sparks are frowned upon in the industrial and commercial sectors!

Is there not some law about misleading information with regards to these advertisements it might be worth a look as people are just being conned