Help!: Apprentership wanted

[bigneil]

It doesnt really matter how many courses a person takes or how many bits of paper say you can stick tiles on. you are going to need on the job practical experience. i seriously doubt that anyone is going to take on an apprentice so you should probably take matters into your own hands, Why not put an ad in the local paper for one week advertising tiling work at competeative rates, then when you start getting phone calls go and look at a few jobs and be honest with the customers about your experience level and if it looks too ambitious for you just say so. You can pick a straight forward job to start, come back here to us lot and get advice on the correct adhesive and grout etc. Once you have a few of those under your belt there could be no stopping you.

[pete fearn]

advertising out and a few jobs coming in so its working out, at the moment but still going to do nvq 2.

[Lee1973]

Pete by the time 2010 comes around you'll be an experienced tiler. Aren't NVQ's all about transfering your work knowledge etc into an NVQ through an NVQ assessor? in that case all you have to do in 2010 is prove the work you have done. Find out to what level an "NVQ level 2" is and get up to it through your own work. As for the Apprenticeship I think its down to confidence I say that because I asked a tiler if I could go out with him to get hands on experience, mainly down to the fact that its nerve racking doing something new on your own! but when you think about it who wants someone squeezing into a bathroom with you looking over your shoulder when your trying to lay tiles!!! sod it mate have confidence in what you know and if you don't feel happy about the job don't do, start off small and build up good luck matey

Lee.

Originally Posted by pete fearn

advertising out and a few jobs coming in so its working out, at the moment but still going to do nvq 2.