... or anything else with an M4 thread! Just as (s)he knows that an RFC is a Radial Final Circuit, a Radio Frequency Choke, a Rugby Football Club - or even, just possibly, a Ring Final CircuitSurely even a DI knows that an M4 is a machine screw
'tis true though, is it not, that someone could pass 2391 without ever having had to make off SWA?ill just point out to those who dont know 2391 is a testing qualification.
that anyone can take.
if you were looking for an electrician with proof of experience you should ask for an nvq.
Not necessarily so on both points
It's clearly very unsatisfactory, or worse, but I'm not sure you can blame the individual all that much. Assuming that he had, indeed, undertaken courses and obtained 'qualifications' which theoretically rendered him a 'fully qualified electrician', then the blame surely lies somewhere other than with him?But selling himself as a fully qualified electrician into an environment like that when he'd never worked with SWA before (and what about conduit? Trunking? MICC?) is nobody's fault but his.
Without wishing to play devils advocate too much, surely obtaining qualifications in electrical work would render him to be 'qualified electrician' rather than a 'fully qualified electrician', which would have required him to have obtained ALL the avilable electrical qualifications, or at very least, all the applied to the area he was working or applying for....Assuming that he had, indeed, undertaken courses and obtained 'qualifications' which theoretically rendered him a 'fully qualified electrician'....
I guess it's up to you (or the employer/client) to decide what 'fully' qualified means. There aren't many trades or professions in which one can exhaust all possible 'further' qualifications - so, if you're taking things that literally', I guess that few, if any, people would be 'fully' qualified to do anything!Without wishing to play devils advocate too much, surely obtaining qualifications in electrical work would render him to be 'qualified electrician' rather than a 'fully qualified electrician', which would have required him to have obtained ALL the avilable electrical qualifications, or at very least, all the applied to the area he was working or applying for....
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