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Understanding Electrician Certifications – The Basics

February 13th, 2010 No comments

The fact is that a career within the electrical sphere is a frequent alternative for many people. From here on we will use the phrase of Electrical Industry to explain the more accurate term of “Electro-Mechanical Engineering”. Furthermore, we will focus on the UK market and the domestic and commercial elements rather than those from elsewhere around the world. Because of the vast number of options available for a career within the electrical industry, we’ll start by concentrating on the main topics, and come back to the ‘add-ons’ later.

We consider that there are two ways to enter the electrical market. Initially there’s the more traditional apprenticeship approach, but equally there is now an alternative, suited to those who are keen to enter later in their life. To clarify, we’ll label each of them as the ‘Mature Entrants’ and the ‘Junior Entrants’.

Mature Entrants who join the industry later on do so with the aim of working for themselves, usually as a one person business. Whereas the ‘Junior Entrants’ train alongside regular electrical employment to pick up practical work place skills as they gain their qualifications. Upon leaving school many apprenticeships provide a fast learning curve for young adults looking to boost their auxiliary skills.

The different ways into electrical work have two distinct types of training: It is the involvement with NVQ’s (or SVQ’s for Scotland), that differentiate the Junior Entrants. The training itself is similar to non NVQ training, but completion of the full programme means getting the actual qualifications. Often, this means that students have to gain an apprenticeship in order to be able to realise the course work and testing requirements of the job.

Instead of seeking a work-based training environment, the Mature Entrant often seems to focus on working as a self employed person where different qualifications to NVQ’s are preferred. For example by concentrating on those qualifications aimed at giving them the best return from their training costs. Whilst this may seem to reduce the overall qualification set, this meets the trade requirements for the areas involved, and thus provides a quicker and more direct commercial route to the market.

In terms of typical earnings, we have two clear routes – those relating to employment and those for self-employment. With self-employment a person may be working on a part-time or full time basis -to that end we will assume they are working full time. The aptitude and talent for getting things done can affect the levels of salary as well as any experience or knowledge gained.

With the right level of experience, ‘Junior Entrants’ salaries can rise considerably from twelve to thirty thousand pounds per annum. ‘Mature Entrants’ salaries though are often more difficult to work out, but can rise to 70.000 and above as reported in UK newspapers. Often costs such as tools, clothes and even transport need to be assessed and included in the business mix overall. Self employed people also have to allow for added expenses. Whilst there is lots of available work, a severe skills shortage means electricians are very much in demand. Working 7 days a week is totally achievable for most people if they want it. It should be noted that figures of 70-100k p.a. advertised are not necessarily easy to come by and would require some long working hours to obtain them.

It should be noted that the working week for most electricians differs between the Junior and Mature Entrant markets. Most ‘Junior Entrants’ do not work at the weekends. Whereas the Mature market can be more dependent on the domestic market for some – i.e. weekend and evening work, when their clients are available and back from work. This alters quite a bit, with lots of self employed electricians gaining much of their income from small office work, which is predominantly Monday to Friday 9am-5pm.

A Junior Entrant that has chosen to adopt a career within the electrical trade is more than likely to gain follow up expertise within the particular field they fall into, often dictated by the main business activities of their employer. However, many mature entrants gain extra skills by learning those trades such as gas and plumbing work. Without a doubt the extra skills help them in their overall employ whether this is commercial or domestic work.

An up to the minute angle – involving a new level of skills – is that of the so called ‘Green Engineer’. The curiosity of both Junior and Mature Electricians to this new industry is well founded especially when considering the power of the UK and the EEC markets in areas of growth and governmental projects.

(C) S. Edwards 2009. Hop over to www.CareerSkillsAdvice.co.uk/jcaskadv.html or 2391 Courses.

Work From Home – Do What You Know Best

February 11th, 2010 No comments

Have you ever thought of being an expert? I do not mean going to graduate school, obtaining a Ph.D, and becoming an expert in molecular research. What I mean is becoming a work from home expert. Simply having the term “expert” withing three words of your name gives you credibility and authority in your field. Furthermore, it is not very difficult to obtain this moniker. The following will illustrate three steps which can quickly lead to you being established as an expert in your field.

1. Identify Your Niche

It is simply not enough to just simply “good” at several things. Rather, you have to be proficient at one or two things. I can best illustrate this with an example of a European friend of mine. This person trained himself to be regarded as the foremost expert in leadership training at water treatment facilities in his nation. The first time that he told me that he was taking this career path, I questioned whether or not this was something that he could do over the long haul. He did not seem the least bit concerned. Later on I found out why when he explained that every single developed city on earth has at least one water treatment facility. He further explained that in his country, he is the only expert in leadership training for water treatment facilities. This is his niche, and he owns it in his country. Even though my friend does not work from home, this example illustrates the principal behind becoming the expert in your niche, and what it will do for you. When you locate your niche and become the expert in that niche, you have assured yourself a majority stake in the market share.

2. Write About Your Area of Expertise

Once you identify your niche, it is time to let the world know that you are the resource on questions and issues regarding this field. Do so by writing articles related to your area of expertise. If you do so, the world will come to you. In fact, each and every day, tens of thousands of editors, webmasters, and newsletter publishers are searching feverishly for unique, educational articles. Once you write articles that teach readers about your industry, you will find numerous places that will quickly publish your article.

3. Speak, Speak, Speak

There will come a time that you are regarded as the expert in your particular niche. At this time, people will want to see you live. The fact is that people want to listen to and interact with experts in a live setting. Some of you might have a problem with this because of your fear of public speaking. However, you must not let this fear overtake your opportunities to become really well known in your field. Instead, face your fears head on by attending a public speaking class. Believe me, the more you speak publicly, the less nervous your will get. In fact, you will begin to look forward to doing so. When you look confident and comfortable speaking publicly, people view you as being more competent regarding your subject matter. After all, experts are supposed to be very competent.

If you follow the three aforementioned methods, you will be able to brand yourself as the expert in your work from home niche, and experience a high degree of success.

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Buy Twitter Followers Today!

February 11th, 2010 No comments

Do you know how to make money by promoting your business online? Have you ever used sites like Twitter or Facebook to promote your product? If you’re like most people, you probably don’t know much about the topic at all. Even if you are quite accustomed to using Twitter in your social life, the process of using it to make money is a completely different ball game.

To be truly triumphant in the world of Twitter marketing, it’s not going to work to sit on your laurels and wait for your followers to find you. With social use of Twitter, it’s perfectly fine to amass followers sporadically as they come to you — in fact that’s the way of life. You meet people every now and again, right? That’s the same with social networking. But if you try to market your business like that your marketing strategy will lose its potency before you get enough followers to make your pitch to.

No matter how great your marketing plan is, it has a before-before date. Before that date, your resources are at their fullest, your ideas the freshest, and your resolve the strongest. After the best-before date expires, everything goes downhill very quickly. And when your marketing plan starts to lose is potency you will very quickly lose money and you might even lose the customers you do have. That’s no way to run a business.

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