JTL trainning

[Morgiee]

Hi has anyone trained with JTL? im 24 currently in full time retail and wanting to retrain as an electrician. What's people opinion of the company or any with experience? Gladly appreciate it

[Dom]

I had a quick google of them and came across a Forum that will be able to help a bit better.

http://www.electriciansforums.co.uk/electrical-courses-electrical-nvqs/4904-jtl-apprenticeship.html

Hang on a min guys.. Im a JTL student and 23 years of age. The lads on the same course seem to be a mixture of 17 - 25 year olds with the majority being 18-19. I think as a full time course you will find younger end NO SWEARING about a bit but on an official apprenticship with JTL tends to mature them up a bit. Obviously everyone is still out for a laugh a bit but, there seems to be a line between going overboard.
We are all on our NVQ3 at moment (inspection,testing and fault find) and seems that all the idiots has left the course anyway, and this was probably the case as they ( NO SWEARING) around so much they ended up failing the tests etc. As you will be starting level 3, you should noticed that its all gone anyway....

Also as you were saying, stay full-time throughout level 1,2 and 3 and not progressing for an apprenticeship, this would seem a bad move as most employers these days want apprentice trained engineers, otherwise they class you as an advanced labourer.. might be wrong but that's what I've been told..

Hope that helps..

I had to grammar nazi the obvious of the above quote to make it readable in places.

Being in a similar position to you, get the qualifications whilst you're young, they speak volumes to employers these days. Also, look into Apprenticeships with your local water board (mine would be Anglian Water), the qualifications they provide you with and are all paid for by the company whilst giving you a pretty good wage too. £13k a year to sit in a classroom 5 days a week for the first year, and on the third year anything up to £42k a year (inc. overtime). An old colleague of mine had stacks of Electrical and mechanical qualifications up to HND level, all paid for by the company.

[Morgiee]

Thanks for that mate mean alot, it felt that the older i got the chances goes further and further but in jtl's case not at all. The two hurdles i have is:

1: getting a sparky to take me on full time

2: still be able to get a good wage to fund myself as an apprentice wage is £2.73 per hr!!