Apprentice 121 Podcast

Lets have a recap on EAS and how this is causing so many people problems in the electrical industry. Are you an electrician having to re qualify to remain in a CPS and take electrician plus courses? Want to come on the podcast and discuss? email [email protected] and get involved

We fire the podcast interviews back to life and this time with friend of the community Jason Shear or Jay to his mates! He has had a battle and a half to get to this stage from training provider failures, misselling, assessment disasters and more. But despite that this guy wont give up, he volunteers on community projects alongside his epic employer Dan and friends out in industry. Jay is an inspiration to me and many others in the sparky community. Well respected and despite a total failure of the training machine will make it to qualified! We get into the remote vs onsite assessment debate, sparkies, roofers and plumbers colliding across shared work areas and of course the pitfalls and successes of training from the hard yards Jay has walked. This will be a valuable podcast to anyone retraining as an electrician for many years to come and huge thanks to Jay for doing it! LegendWe will be back gold card in hand for part 2!

We have a huge opportunity during the era of abundance and with some joined up thinking, honesty and combined approach we can change the dynamic around training and outcomes in the electrical sector. In this video I run through some of the challenges, problems and offer solutions. As I say I am far from an expert as some like to point out. All I have is my experience of running businesses in the sector, working in it for 25+ years and carrying out endless training and CPD of my own and those I employ. Combined with a small community called Apprentice 121 and 6 years of running that including the period of Covid. I mean I would say it makes me qualified to offer a view, but hey perhaps not. I think we have an exciting future and its great to see a sector moving in what I think is the right direction with a few tweaks around the edges much needed to iron out the kinks and dams built by the otters #ifyouknowyouknow .... #teamsparks

Neil Phillips joins me to share his route into the electrical industry and subsequent creation of Electrical courses Ltd in Cambridge. You can find Neil online here https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-phillips-345a1a69/https://www.instagram.com/electricalcourses/https://www.tiktok.com/@electricalcourses @electricalcourses ​

We get into safety of solar and battery systems. We are seeing worrying trends around scare mongering and simplification of cause/effect. But what do you think? Is solar of itself the problem or as discussed more to do with training, specification and how we maintain kit. Get involved in the comments and share your views alongside a couple of designers, installers and users of solar.https://proteusswitchgear.com/solar-pv-consumer-units-saving-time-and-space-on-site/