subject: Electronics Jobs Offers Careers As Electricians [print this page] Finding a career in electronics jobs is an excellent choice as there is a high demand for electricians. There are numerous duties and responsibilities for being an electrician. This is a short review of just what type of work electricians do and the requirements for becoming an electrician.The salary of any electrician will really depend on the duties and responsibilities that the electrician has pertaining to his or her position at work. Most seniors in this line of work who have sufficient years of experience will be able to enjoy the fine benefits than a trainee or a junior electrician.Some of the responsibilities and duties of the electrician are assembling or installing electrical equipment or instruments if you use several tools, along with testing equipment, identifying circuit breakers in residential homes, offices and buildings, inspecting any electrical appliances or systems, working with all electrical testing equipments such as ohmmeters, voltmeters, oscilloscopes and several other electrical devices.They must also be able to read blue prints of wiring systems and then follow them with the use of a chart for new buildings, provide some assistance to other fellow electricians, install some ground work for cables for all kinds of telecommunications and also they must specialize in commercial and residential electricity works and also check on all measures of electrical safety too.The requirements for electricians should be an apprentice for quite a while in the beginning and then obtain certificates in this field of work from some reputed organizations. A program for this type of career is about four years and each year could include 144 hours classroom training and about 2000 hours of on the job training too. A good background of educational subjects are beneficial like science. Math, physics not to mention electronics too.This kind of occupation is in high demand and can cause many kinds of jobs and is quite rewarding as the benefits are very good for everyone who wants to ever have a career as an electrician.Electrical jobs are best suited to bright sparks, often the people doing this kind of job have electrifying personalities that make other people light up. More seriously these people perform an essential role in our 21st century lives and we could not cope without them. Many people in the UK find it too difficult to change a light bulb or a fuse and this is due to a low level of education.
