Lantra or NPTC ??????

[Khriss]

Seek training any way you want but you wont beat working for a company looking learning and trying it for yourself.

 

Tickets to me are nothing more than a piece of paper that allows me to do what i been doing for years.

 

This hse red tape world makes me sick tbh most guys fresh from a course cant do jack yet they are allowed right into the commercial world of arb.

 

But if you wanna nptc is all were interested in.

 

Taken me a while to get round to that way of thinking-but I am now fed up with seeing people turn up on a job and have a blunt saw/ or can't sharpen the one they have, ect,ect The NPTC scheme has lost credibility- dunno what their going to do about it....

[Treegeek]

I agree with arblord on this and i ve seen this in the building trades (my previous occupation) lads go the college/training come back full of it .

i was self employed carpenter joiner with no qualifications i can build complicated roofs that men tweenty years senior to me couldnt manage, i think its all about aptitude for the job we've had the

ex-forces ex-it all these jonny come lately's and thay have loads of tickets and jack shite between the ears when it comes to the real thing:sneaky2:

and when companies start pushing people though second rate training it just impacts on this senario:mad1:

[SAW]

And there's me thinking that if i took a CS30/31 course it would help me get a job i would love to do?????

You learn something new........

[scudmonster]

personally Im sick of seeing NPTC qualified. Means you are competant only. Experience and underpinning knowledge is all

[Rob Hornett]

And there's me thinking that if i took a CS30/31 course it would help me get a job i would love to do?????

You learn something new........

 

Same here, there's me thinking that with all my hard earned money being spent on gaining these qualifications it would make me more employable.

 

Being able to enter a chosen career to a recognised standard, so that my employers know that I am trained to a level of competetancy, when all I have to do is hopefully join a good team and learn on the job.

 

It would save me some money but not sure who would take me on with no tickets who ever they're issued by........but what if I joined a bad team??

[scudmonster]

Ive maybe been taken out of context. Yes we all need to be competant to a level but we shouldn't sit back on our laurels once we earn the nptc certs nor should we rely on them to prove our worth in adverts for the public to be confused about what nptc certification actually means. Im not knocking the system but highlighting the fact that they are a stepping stone to learning the trade through further education/experience. There are individuals out there who dont care about what they do, they just earn the pennies. Arb is a lifestyle not a fast buck.

[Rob Hornett]

I didn't mean to stand on the soap box

 

"Arb is a lifestyle not a fast buck".

 

I spent a day ( a look at life in the day of a tree surgery firm, so to speak) with a firm from westbury earlier in the year, in Bath. One of the lads there called Charlie was living proof of that last statement.. more conformation that I had chosen the right job for me. (Many Thanks NickJC)

Ive wanted to do this job for along time and have been gearing my present career towards this since 2000. I can't wait to start gaining experience