Hi, I am a recent graduate with a certificate in Heating and Refrigeration. I have been looking for a job, but all of them want at least 2 years experience. So, how can I get the experience I need to get a job? What should I do? Any advice I would appreciate.
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Hi, I am a recent graduate with a certificate in Heating and Refrigeration. I have been looking for a job, but all of them want at least 2 years experience. So, how can I get the experience I need to get a job? What should I do? Any advice I would appreciate.
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Yes; two years is what they're asking for but what they might have to settle for can be different.
And keep looking because things change.
Knewguy is right.
Someone will hire you, hopefully you will find a good teacher, please don't learn bad habits, just because someone takes short cuts, does sloppy work, doesn't mean that is the standard.
Good luck, be honest, clean your jobsite after you get done, be prompt, and....be honest.
Someone will hire you, hopefully you will find a good teacher, please don't learn bad habits, just because someone takes short cuts, does sloppy work, doesn't mean that is the standard.
Good luck, be honest, clean your jobsite after you get done, be prompt, and....be honest.
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Things should pick up when the heat arrives. THis time of the year plus the economy has made it slow.
stop out and pick up applications
Then stop by about every week or to to say hi or anything yet. Be nice to the person up front. Bring them a coffee or some thing. Yes is sounds strange but it often work.
It show your will to work and not quit. Don't be a pest but make friend I gotten Jobs this way and I've hire people who have done the same thing.
Then stop by about every week or to to say hi or anything yet. Be nice to the person up front. Bring them a coffee or some thing. Yes is sounds strange but it often work.
It show your will to work and not quit. Don't be a pest but make friend I gotten Jobs this way and I've hire people who have done the same thing.
My first job in HVAC I showed up every morning for a week. On Friday, the owner walked out, saw me and told his son, "Put him on a truck, I'm tired of seeing him in here." Worked there for 8 years, went from gopher to foreman.
You gotta do what you gotta do
You gotta do what you gotta do
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Good advice
I've seen this work too. People are impressed by determination.
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This is how you get into the Shaolin Temple.
You sit outside. The first day the monks come out and tell you to get the Heil out of there.
The second day there's more nonsense.
Maybe the third day whoever is left has a chance of getting in if they're still sitting there.
Pretty much what the other guys said. Turn in applications then follow up with phone call or stop by. Be aggressive but not an anoyance. Go to local supply houses meet people who work there. They usually have bulletin board with job postings.
I started in the trade in 1980. Economy was bad then too. I was a apprentice installer, lowest guy in the shop. I would show up in the mornings sometimes and not go out on the jobs. They would have me clean up the shop, maybe make some plenums, and go home early. Small shop with about 6 installers and one service tech. I started asking to ride along with service tech for no pay and help him out on these days they had no work for me. I would rather help service tech and learn something and show my enthusiasm for no pay instead of sit home and watch TV for no pay. After awhile the service tech started handing in a time card for me. And started asking for me when he needed help with maintence contracts and big compressor changeouts, etc. Looking back I now realize how important that was for the owner to see my commitment.
As an owner now myself it is rare to find people that will do things like this.
Im not saying go offer to work for someone for free. But have this kind of attitude and take advantage of opportunities when they come.
I started in the trade in 1980. Economy was bad then too. I was a apprentice installer, lowest guy in the shop. I would show up in the mornings sometimes and not go out on the jobs. They would have me clean up the shop, maybe make some plenums, and go home early. Small shop with about 6 installers and one service tech. I started asking to ride along with service tech for no pay and help him out on these days they had no work for me. I would rather help service tech and learn something and show my enthusiasm for no pay instead of sit home and watch TV for no pay. After awhile the service tech started handing in a time card for me. And started asking for me when he needed help with maintence contracts and big compressor changeouts, etc. Looking back I now realize how important that was for the owner to see my commitment.
As an owner now myself it is rare to find people that will do things like this.
Im not saying go offer to work for someone for free. But have this kind of attitude and take advantage of opportunities when they come.
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Man I wish you were my boss...I did that for 8 months at my first job in the trade and still got laid off. I am always more than willing to learn and put in my own time and do it without payment. I found that my boss took advantage of this too often because he got used to me just being willing to do stuff without being paid...Until things got too slow and he couldn't justify keeping me any longer..I guess he was starting to feel guilty of working me 50 hrs a week and only paying me for 40.
Because times are slow, most employers will look to hire more experienced people to get out of the cost of training, but some employers recognize the benefit of training someone the way that they want them to work. Are you looking to service or install? Anyway, wish you the best.
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