Is the industry still under balanced?

[Sharpend]

Cant help but notice that there seems to be an ever increasing number of jobs advertising for ‘EICR’ testing and ‘domestic electrician’ for social housing upgrade works. All allegedly offering excellent money. 
 

so is this the result of all the short course training providers offering the ‘make a fortune retrain as a spark’ carrot or is there a genuine increase in social housing standards going on? 
are these the jobs that the short courses were hoping to fill, if so why aren’t they full? 
 

Just really don’t know what to make of it, it just concerns me that we will be overrun by half baked so called electricians before too long?? 

 

[Murdoch]

Cant help but notice that there seems to be an ever increasing number of jobs advertising for ‘EICR’ testing and ‘domestic electrician’ for social housing upgrade works. All allegedly offering excellent money. 

What is certain is that lots of properties are being given unsatisfactory reports which shouldn't - so a short term blip of extra work is therefore envisaged 

 

[binky]

Cant help but notice that there seems to be an ever increasing number of jobs advertising for ‘EICR’ testing and ‘domestic electrician’ for social housing upgrade works. All allegedly offering excellent money. 
 

so is this the result of all the short course training providers offering the ‘make a fortune retrain as a spark’ carrot or is there a genuine increase in social housing standards going on? 
are these the jobs that the short courses were hoping to fill, if so why aren’t they full? 
 

Just really don’t know what to make of it, it just concerns me that we will be overrun by half baked so called electricians before too long?? 

 paartly it's the onus om landlords to have EICRS, partly it's the lack of apprentices. Someone who runs a team of 6 electricians was moaning he has had to up their pay to £17 / hour and provide a van to stand a chance ofattracting a good sparky or retaining his current crew..

 

[Sharpend]

But the mad thing with that is other companies will expect to pay £17/hr to a subbie who provides his own transport. 
The general industry is so messed up at the minute. I hear that Ng Baileys is looking at having separate teams now for metal crunching, cable pulling and second fixing. All at different pay rates. :C  If so then how will any trainee spark ever learn the full job?