nvq level 3 am2

[jamesie]

trying to get jib card, got 2360 part 1 and 2, 17th edition and 2391.working as a spark for 30 years.

References from 3 jib approved companies i have worked for as a subby. jib would only give me a trainee card.

saying i need am2 or nvq level 3, looked at doing the am2 apparently testing and inspecting is part of it whats the point of doing the same thing twice.

seems stupid to me, anyway round it.

 

[Silly Sausage]

i did all my qualifications at nightschool whilst working full time as an electricians mate so i had probably more practical experience than any apprentice.

what is the point in doing the am2 when a percentage of the exam is testing and inspection and i already have the 2391 qualification.

How many guys who have passed there am2 in the last year or so can terminate micc, they dont even do it in the am2. total waste of time.

F knows!

When I did my 2400 (google if need be), if you had 2391, you didn't have to do the I&T part; which was good!

 

[jase]

I got told today that you need NVQ3 to register partP? I took a break from Elecsa and thankfully because I'd been assessed for part P in the last 3 years I didn't need NVQ, but apparently you need it now?

 

[rmc86uk]

numpties that hold a gold "electrician " JIB card or the ones that like you to think they are qualified ?

I'm not sure mate. I've been on a job before for BBES where they had a plasterer who had 2391 testing. Until something went wrong when a guy uncoiled a circuit assuming it was dead and it wasn't. They did some digging and realised he was useless.

It annoys me because when I used to work on agencies there was a few jobs I would never get. Now you look at the site and every Tom, Dick and Harry is on!

 

[Maddison]

I got told today that you need NVQ3 to register partP? I took a break from Elecsa and thankfully because I'd been assessed for part P in the last 3 years I didn't need NVQ, but apparently you need it now?

i think its a good thing. we need barriers like this. its too easy for pretenders

 

[jase]

Yes I agree that it can be quite easy to become part P, but it just occurred to me that if say you were 30- 40 or whatever age, had been employed in one way another all your life and had 2360, 2391, 17th etc and years of experience but had decided to register or go it alone that now you are deemed incompetent because you haven't got NVQ3?

 

[Guest125]

Yes I agree that it can be quite easy to become part P, but it just occurred to me that if say you were 30- 40 or whatever age, had been employed in one way another all your life and had 2360, 2391, 17th etc and years of experience but had decided to register or go it alone that now you are deemed incompetent because you haven't got NVQ3?

I hear you but this has been the same excuse for years (as long as I have been in the game) as to why changes can't happen.

 

[jase]

Guess there will be a time when I'm gonna have to fork out the £600 and spend a few months or whatever it is building a portfolio and doing the NVQ3 eventually.
When you think about it it's no worse than shelling out £250 for a one day course to go from 16th to 17th Ed.
maybe I'll wait till the 18th comes out, get an NVQ and 18th qualified at the same time rather than having to do an 18th update!!!

 

[Maddison]

well a few months ago i heard that something was going to be in place for guys without the NVQ who could instead prove competence by showing a minimum amount of years of experience with references and therefore apply for a JIB card. not sure if that is just hear say. doing an NVQ is enough being an apprentice let alone running a business and putting food on the table..