Re: How does one find employees, including trainees?



Agreed. I do the hiring, and any one who wants on the list needs to
know some basic electronics or be teachable, and have decent mechanical
skills.
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JoeRaisin wrote:



Tommy wrote:
Why would knowing ohm's law make one overqualified? that sounds
like a comment from an unnamed (RLB) person who already says that
alarm installtion can be done by "trained monkeys."

Absolutely not. I have worked with some guys who were not much
better than monkeys and they couldn't install worth a damn.

Perhaps I overstated when I made the "overqualified" remark. I know
Ohm's law, however I have never calculated anything out on paper to
troubleshoot an alarm system. Therefore I can understand folks
saying that one need not know it.

Would I hire someone who didn't at least know what it was? No.

Ohm's law is such a basic aspect of electronics that someone who
doesn't know it doesn't know enough about electronics to work with
alarms (IMHO).

But unfortunately interviewing and hiring techs is not in my job
description.

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