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Electrical Competence.

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"The trap we've fallen into is to believe that a thousand incompetents properly organized can do the job of a few dozen outstanding people"


OMS's footer reminds me of this from electrical rules and regulations;


"Ignorance and injudicious economy.- Many of the dangers in the application of electricity arise from ignorance and inexperience on the part of those who supply and fit up inadequate plant, and frequently injudicious economy on the part of the user."


Rules and Regulations for the Prevention of Fire Risks Arising from Electric Lighting.

Issued April 1888 by the Society of Telegraph-Engineers and Electricians. (Now the Institution of Electrical Engineers, my old source book says.)


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    Chris Pearson:




    AJJewsbury:

    Or demonstrate how the holder will perform, as distinct from how they're capable of performing?




    That's where references come in.



    Unfortunately I have know employers who have provided good references for incompetent employees in order to get rid of them. 


    On qualifications: many years ago I worked with an electronics graduate. One morning he asked me why his new car radio (transistor)  would not work, I asked if he had the polarity correct, he admitted that he had connected it up the wrong way round first time but why would it not work now he had connected it correctly? 

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    Chris Pearson:




    AJJewsbury:

    Or demonstrate how the holder will perform, as distinct from how they're capable of performing?




    That's where references come in.



    Unfortunately I have know employers who have provided good references for incompetent employees in order to get rid of them. 


    On qualifications: many years ago I worked with an electronics graduate. One morning he asked me why his new car radio (transistor)  would not work, I asked if he had the polarity correct, he admitted that he had connected it up the wrong way round first time but why would it not work now he had connected it correctly? 

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