In Canada, electricians, as a member of the Trade industry, have always been favored by skilled immigrants because of their good employment situation and high wage income. If you want to work in the electrical industry in Ontario, an electrical certificate is the best career stepping stone.
The certificates in the electrical industry are: construction electrician, industrial electrician, rural electrician and advanced electrician certificates.
The main skills that electricians need to master:
1) Understand the equipment drawings and electrical specifications, and make installation line configuration drawings.
2) Install, replace and repair lighting equipment, electrical control and power distribution equipment, etc.,
3) Wiring fixed devices and components and connect them into circuits.
4) Test and ensure the patency and safety of the circuit, and then install, replace or repair the equipment.
5) Repair and troubleshoot electrical and electronic system equipment.
6) Power on audio-visual communication devices, signaling devices, refrigeration (heat) systems, etc.
Requirements required for immigrants to apply for electrical certificate:
A person with zero foundation needs a five-year apprenticeship period to obtain an electrician certificate. But the electrician industry recognizes work experience outside North America. For people who have worked as electricians in China, if they have more than 5 years of work experience, they can apply directly for the electrician license examination. In other words, this apprenticeship period can be omitted. As long as you can pass the review, you can take the electrician certificate exam.
Guidelines for Electrical Examination:
For China immigrants, it is not difficult to evaluate and apply for electrical certification. However, there are many different answers on how to do it, depending on each person’s situation. Many immigrants don’t know much about how to take the assessment and how to take the exam, so they think that the evaluation of electricians and other vocational certificate examinations is a very insurmountable obstacle.
In Canada, you can start working as an apprentice after the second year of high school. Some people say, do you want to go on TRAINING? (For industrial electricians, the answer is Yes for construction electricians, the reasons are stated below.) Because the school only teaches you, there is no guarantee that you will have Licence. So here, you have to start looking for a company, register as an apprentice, get a manual, and complete the work item item by item according to each different equipment. A total of 9000 hours, about 5 years, and you can hand in the manual, pass the formal exam, and then you can get a license. In order to improve themselves, some people will be better off by doing TRAINING for another year. For locals, if you want to learn construction electrician and work on a construction site, you must have a License issued by the industry management department. If it is the lowest level of apprenticeship License, the industry management department requires a graduation certificate from a relevant major in the local school, plus the work guarantee provided by your unit for at least 150 hours within 3 months will you be issued an apprenticeship certificate. So the necessary process is: Go to Training first, and then find a job after getting your graduation certificate. The main way to find a job is to call a Contractor. After finding a Contractor who is willing to accept you, he will issue you a job guarantee stating that you will be guaranteed to provide you with 150 hours of relevant work within the next 3 months. After obtaining these two certificates, you can go to the industry management department to apply for an apprenticeship certificate. Only when you get the apprenticeship certificate can you enter the construction site, and you must be led by a certified master to work. Otherwise, if you are caught by an inspector from the industry management department, the fines and penalties will be very severe. The apprenticeship period requires 9000 hours of work. Only after being evaluated and passing the evaluation can you apply to take the formal electrician examination. After passing the examination, you will get a Construction Electrician License C, and you can work independently as an electrician.
According to this apprenticeship, evaluation, and examination process for native Canadians, the cycle is long and the time is long. As young people’s interests change, it is difficult for many apprentices to persist until the end. However, those who persist until the end will have a high level of technical level and industry ethics. The assessment examination is basically no problem for these people.
For foreign immigrants and immigrants who have experience in electrician work before immigration, they have a working background in the electrical industry and rich experience in electrician operations. In order to allow these valuable talents in great demand to join enterprises and departments that can give full play to their expertise and create more benefits for Canadian society as soon as possible, the Canadian government also allows these immigrants to complete work experience assessment in the shortest possible time, take exams, obtain certificates, and complete the process of immigrating to a strange country, successfully finding a job, and living and working in peace and contentment. The industry management department of the Canadian government has formulated corresponding regulatory measures: assessment of work experience in the country of origin before immigrating to Canada. The assessment requires providing the payroll of your work unit in your country of origin, employment certificate and employer recommendation letter, or recommendation certificate from industry unions or associations, proving that you have the same working experience as apprentices in Canada in your country of origin, and have reached 9000 hours of various work experience. You take these documents and go to the industry management department for an evaluation. After passing the evaluation, you can directly make an appointment, take the exam, pass the exam, get License C, and you can apply to join the trade union. By joining the trade union, you will find a stable ideal job. Because there are many job vacancies for electricians, there is a great demand from local Canadian companies and companies.
In Canada, professional and technical workers are in short supply, and they shoulder the responsibilities of certain engineers at work, so their remuneration is higher than that of ordinary business managers. Work experience assessments and examinations for various majors in Toronto are very convenient. As long as you have the corresponding professional background, work experience, strong hands-on skills, are willing to learn, and are willing to enter the electrical industry and other industries, and become a higher-paid electrician and other professionals, in principle, as long as you have a recommendation letter from the work unit or BOSS in your country of origin, an industry certificate and job certificate, and an evaluation form, you can participate in the evaluation. If everything goes well, you can pass the evaluation in an hour. After passing the evaluation, your pre-exam preparations will begin to count down. If you pass the exam within the specified time, you will get your certificate quickly.
In Canada, the average annual salary of electricians is 82,600 yuan. Although it has not exceeded the six-figure mark, it is already a very good income for a middle-class family.
The Canadian Institute of Science and Technology is willing to provide various free consulting services and pre-test training services to all immigrants who want to work in the electrical industry and other industries, so as to ensure that immigrants can get a stable and high-paying job, live and work in peace and contentment, and live a happy life. contribution.