How does one find employees, including trainees?

[Bob Worthy]

The reason I haven't gone into it as a full time career, is because I'm
female and and I didn't know how well it would work having me wander
into unknown customers homes... but then again maybe I am just a bit
cautious. On the commercial side, I'd have no problems.

Being cautious is smart, but that is with anything. I have employed female
techs in the past. It is not uncommon, anymore, to see females in the
trades. If you worked on construction sites as an electrician, you would
have been in a far more sexually discriminatory atmosphere than any alarm
job. In *most* residential installations, you are dealing with the lady of
the house anyway. If there were to be any question, the employer should team
you up with a working partner anyway. Systems Intergration maybe an area
that would suit you and your comfort level. Pays well too.

 

[Michelle]

I was lucky as an electrician. Although I had wide varying experiences,
whenever "finer" tasks came up that required "neatness" my bosses
usually asked me to do them. Construction sites are definitely the worse
though for harassment.


What is systems integration?

 

[Bob Worthy]

I was lucky as an electrician. Although I had wide varying experiences,
whenever "finer" tasks came up that required "neatness" my bosses
usually asked me to do them. Construction sites are definitely the worse
though for harassment.


What is systems integration?

Simply put, taking combinations of different systems, ie, CCTV, Access
control, security, energy management systems, lighting control etc,
networking them together so they act as one large system working together
and usually controlled through computer software. Home automation is another
name for the same in the resi market.

 

[Norm Mugford]

What's the exchange rate now? 12-14% I heard.

Norm

Depends on how "competent" they are. We pay union rate even though ours
isn't a union shop plus bonuses (profit share). Typically around $40 -
45K per annum (but that's Canadian dollars which used to translate to
about $21.35 US). ;-)

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[Tommy]

Like i said difference between memorizing and understanding. memorizing
a "go,no go" reading is not using the law, but using a meter should
imply an understanding of the principles going on behind the readout.

 

[Tommy]

LOL
--

Forgot to add. Don't let an installer convince you they are a
technician without proof of competentcy. Because they know how to
install a system (even properly), does not constitute being a
technician. Hell, they might even need to know Ohm's law to get the
big bucks.

 

[Robert L Bass]

Like i said difference between memorizing and

understanding. memorizing a "go,no go" reading
is not using the law...

Seems to me that is precisely the opposite of what you said at first.

 

[Frank Olson]

Robert L Bass scribbled:

Seems to me that is precisely the opposite of what you said at first.

It seems we *all* learn from the "master".

 

[Allan Waghalter]

Thanks Bill Gates for ctrl T.....

Robert L Bass scribbled:



It seems we *all* learn from the "master".

 

[alarman]

Amen
js

Thanks Bill Gates for ctrl T.....