Starting Up In Alarm Instillation

[TONYTAZ]

Hi any help here would be appreciated,am looking to train as a alarm instillation engineer

have contacted SSAIB and they have given me the contact details of TAVCOM who do

training courses the initiial one is a 5 day foundation course for alarm instillation which i

intend to take up,however is this enough for me to start as a alarm engineer would for example

would i be able to offer myself as a subbie.I do intend to then learn the fire,cctv,and access control

via TAVCOM as well.I do realise it is all down to actual hands on experiance.

[shinfieldmonkey]

You would find it hard to start as a subbie. I've just taken someone on fresh out of tavcom the certificates look brill but found i had to retrain him. i suggest you do the course and then look for a small company who will be able to give you the follow up training. Good luck however and its nice to see new engineers come through

[james.wilson]

5 days may give you some basics but to be fair you need 6 months of training before your gonna be able to do much mate.

Yes you could make it work etc just with a good read of the manuals. Also depends on your background etc and if any previous job expirence would help.

[Guest anguscanplay]

stick at it mate, it`ll pay off in the end

now if you want to do some free work (just to get experiance like ).............

[TONYTAZ]

i'd be quiet happy to work with someone for free for upto six months to get the experiance after doing the TAVCOM exam.

[james.wilson]

good lad, im sure someone will take you up on that.