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December 22, 2007 at 12:33 pm #1207

blkgtjax
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I am very interested in becoming a ROV trainee. I am in the Navy right now but get out in about 4 months. I mainly work on communications and navigation equipment for aircraft. I have about 12 months worth of training in electronics and 4 years of experience. I’ll also be a certified MIG welder by the time I get out, but I’m not really sure if that would help with this type of work.

I was wondering if anyone had advice as far as what types of questions might be asked in an interview. One of my friends that got out about a year ago got a job working for oceaneering, but at the time I wasn’t really interested in the ROV community. He told me that the interview was over an hour and they asked a lot of questions.

Also, is there anything that I could be doing in these 4 months before I get out to improve my chances of landing a job in the ROV industry?

December 22, 2007 at 1:12 pm #15246

bert600
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Hi
I have recently just finished a 6 week training course for ROV pilot tech grade 2 so i am new to the industry! your 4 years electronic experience will be what the recruiting companies will be looking at. im pretty certain your welder qualifications wont help in this job!
on the training course there were a couple of south africans both ex navy in the electronics side of things!
The process for recruitment for me was a technical test then an interview!
the test was basically a hydraulic circuit and an electrical power circuit! with both you had to name main components and breifly decribe the opertion of both!
My background is electronic/electrical so i did struggle with the hydraulics and thinking back i should of done some revision on hydraulic symbols!

also there was a section on IT skills and knowledge! i.e how do you use Microsoft word etc and what is a usb port for? that kind of thing!

the interview was pretty short. usual stuff like what attracted you to the job? what did your last job involve? where do you see yourself in 5 years? etc

Hope this helps

Any more questions and i will try to answer them but like i said im a newbie

December 22, 2007 at 4:08 pm #15247

pipetracker
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im pretty certain your welder qualifications wont help in this job!

I have to disagree with this as on workclass systems it can be extremely handy having someone that can fab up brackets or even do repairs to the frame.

December 22, 2007 at 4:09 pm #15248

pipetracker
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im pretty certain your welder qualifications wont help in this job!

I have to disagree with this as on workclass systems it can be extremely handy having someone that can fab up brackets or even do repairs to the frame.

December 22, 2007 at 5:19 pm #15249

bert600
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im pretty certain your welder qualifications wont help in this job!

I have to disagree with this as on workclass systems it can be extremely handy having someone that can fab up brackets or even do repairs to the frame.

what i was trying to say was that i dont think having welder qualifications would make a company consider you more highly for a piltot tech job than somebody without any welder qualifications!

I agree though that it is handy to have somebody on any engineering team that can do a bit of welding but i think 95% of any tradesman be it electrical or mechanical could fabricate a bracket of some description without any problems! just a bit of previous welding experience would be enough qualification i think!!

December 23, 2007 at 12:02 am #15250

luckyjim37
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With welding certs you do become more employable over the person who only has electronics training.

Every feather in your cap which is even semi useful is a bonus
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