A three day training course does guarantee that someone will get work.


There is a discussion on the NAPIT forum about EV training courses and getting work installing chargers, on Absolute Radio there is an advert saying that over four thousand electric vehicles a month are being registered, the NICEIC are currently advertising over one thousand places on EV training courses in the next six months and there are many other training providers also offering similar courses.


So assume that a new charger is installed for every new EV vehicle registered, that means if the NICEIC fill their training courses each new installer will get one job a week, totally ignoring all the established installers and other new entrants being trained by other training providers.


Without a massive shift to EVs there won’t be enough work to go around.


With the BS7909 training courses work is not guaranteed, the trainee is going to need contacts to get into the industry and other tickets such as working at heights.


I am too old to get into many parts of the industry, there are possible opportunities, but they would require a change in lifestyle as well as how I work.


I think if it were me I would join BECTU and do the appropriate training courses through them, hopefully then there would be the possibility of networking, building friendships and contacts with and through the fellow trainees and trainers, I think it would also look better having training certificates issued by a event and production industry organisation rather than waving electrical industry certificates about.


Andy Betteridge

A three day training course does guarantee that someone will get work.


There is a discussion on the NAPIT forum about EV training courses and getting work installing chargers, on Absolute Radio there is an advert saying that over four thousand electric vehicles a month are being registered, the NICEIC are currently advertising over one thousand places on EV training courses in the next six months and there are many other training providers also offering similar courses.


So assume that a new charger is installed for every new EV vehicle registered, that means if the NICEIC fill their training courses each new installer will get one job a week, totally ignoring all the established installers and other new entrants being trained by other training providers.


Without a massive shift to EVs there won’t be enough work to go around.


With the BS7909 training courses work is not guaranteed, the trainee is going to need contacts to get into the industry and other tickets such as working at heights.


I am too old to get into many parts of the industry, there are possible opportunities, but they would require a change in lifestyle as well as how I work.


I think if it were me I would join BECTU and do the appropriate training courses through them, hopefully then there would be the possibility of networking, building friendships and contacts with and through the fellow trainees and trainers, I think it would also look better having training certificates issued by a event and production industry organisation rather than waving electrical industry certificates about.


Andy Betteridge