Taking on a new electrician

[enlighting]

Evening all,

I have been self employed now for a number of years, things are going pretty well so far. At the moment I have an apprentice, a company secretary and a sub contractor helping me out. Now however I have that much work in I am having to work long 7 day weeks just to try and keep the workload at bay.

Im working mainly in the commercial and industrial sectors with the odd bit of domestic thrown in, I have a lot of testing work as well.

I am ready to take on another spark and in fact had one lined up to start who I was happy with. Unfortunately however he backed out late on leaving me back to square one.

Has any one got any advice with regards to hiring sparks? Where to look? What to ask?

Any feedback will as always be greatly appreciated.

 

[Leesparkykent]

Have a conduit bender waiting at the interview and make them do a bubble set and an offset bend, should smoke some of the boys out lol.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Have a conduit bender waiting at the interview and make them do a bubble set and an offset bend, should smoke some of the boys out lol.

Conduit bender???!!! mg_smile:

Howay man!! In Geordieland we divvent need them daft things!!

Tight bend - bend it ower yer knee.

Bit bigger bend - bend it aroond yer mate's neck.

Big bend - bend it ower yer mate's heid.

 

[Pete999]

There are Electricians, and there are proper Electricians, I'm afraid it's up to you to chose. I did a lot of interviewing at my old job, and as far as I was concerned I got in total15 very good Electricians over the years, it also depends on what sort of Electrician you are after, I have a list of questions I used but unfortunately they are at my old office and I no longer have access to them, I could come up with a few if you like, PM me if interested.

 

[uksparks]

I'd be interested to see your list to see what you would ask, I am a firm believer of demonstrating skills.

 

[7029 dave]

Conduit bender???!!! mg_smile:

Howay man!! In Geordieland we divvent need them daft things!!

Tight bend - bend it ower yer knee.

Bit bigger bend - bend it aroond yer mate's neck.

Big bend - bend it ower yer mate's heid.

I am crying ye old bugger, that's sooo funny.

 

[Pete999]

I'd be interested to see your list to see what you would ask, I am a firm believer of demonstrating skills.

I'll have to dig deep in the computer mainframe, give me a couple of days, and I'll PM you

 

[Geordie Spark]

I am crying ye old bugger, that's sooo funny.

Aye, but it's not all that far from the truth!

When I was an apprentice the boss had a brand new factory built and we - the apprentices - did all the conduit & trunking work to get leccy to the machines etc.

It was all done after hours so's not to lose production time and all we had to bend the conduit with was a wooden railway sleeper with a hole in it. But when it was all finished it was bloody good - everything plumb and straight which wasn't that surprising as we were Precision Engineers.

In the old days of the shipyards if a hole was needed to be burned through a bulkhead to pass a pipe through, the burner would hold his cap against the bulkhead where the hole needed to be and draw around it with a bit of chalk and then follow he chalk line with his burning torch.

They employed blokes with different sized heids so's to have the option of burning different sized holes.

 

[Daveash123]

How to change the direction of a star-delta connected motor is a good one. Beats two way switching any day

 

[Geordie Spark]

I'll have to dig deep in the computer mainframe, give me a couple of days, and I'll PM you

 

[enlighting]

There are Electricians, and there are proper Electricians, I'm afraid it's up to you to chose. I did a lot of interviewing at my old job, and as far as I was concerned I got in total15 very good Electricians over the years, it also depends on what sort of Electrician you are after, I have a list of questions I used but unfortunately they are at my old office and I no longer have access to them, I could come up with a few if you like, PM me if interested.

Please do

 

[Knobhead]

I'd be interested to see your list to see what you would ask, I am a firm believer of demonstrating skills.

I suppose someone has to teach you.

 

[7029 dave]

Aye, but it's not all that far from the truth!

When I was an apprentice the boss had a brand new factory built and we - the apprentices - did all the conduit & trunking work to get leccy to the machines etc.

It was all done after hours so's not to lose production time and all we had to bend the conduit with was a wooden railway sleeper with a hole in it. But when it was all finished it was bloody good - everything plumb and straight which wasn't that surprising as we were Precision Engineers.

In the old days of the shipyards if a hole was needed to be burned through a bulkhead to pass a pipe through, the burner would hold his cap against the bulkhead where the hole needed to be and draw around it with a bit of chalk and then follow he chalk line with his burning torch.

They employed blokes with different sized heids so's to have the option of burning different sized holes.

Yeah, I have used timber block with hole, when was a lad, shagged it right up.Give me the hilmore any day.

 

[Leesparkykent]

Yeah, I have used timber block with hole, when was a lad, shagged it right up.Give me the hilmore any day.

You are supposed to use the hole in the block for the conduit lol :icon12: