DANIEL KLERK
Age: 20
Residence: Parramatta
A successful Corporate Partners for Change Electrical Trades Pre-vocational Trainee
FB: When did you do the CPC pre-vocational course?
D: I think it was June 2000
FB:What were you doing before this?
D: I was working as a general hand in a Newsagency in Dubbo.
FB: How did you hear about the CPC program?
D: I was referred by a Jobagency in Dubbo
FB:Tell me about the CPC program
D: Well first I had to go for an interview to be accepted
and then I had to do a test to
see if I had any potential
FB:What areas did they test?
D: It wasn’t all that hard just general maths, spacial
things like measurement and to
test if I had a mechanical knowledge. Fifteen of us started the 6 week course.
FB: What was the most difficult part of the course?
D: The teacher was good but the workshop program was tough.
Not earning any
money. But then at the end I got a traineeship and started working for Sydney
Water at Bondi, we used to swim almost every lunchtime.
The guys were really great, because I don’t have a car, they would
pick me
up from the railway station and take me to jobs all over Sydney doing installations
of buildings and stuff. I have to get up early, round 5.15am but the $400,
after tax helps, for four days work and one day a week training is ok.
FB: Tell me about your involvement in the Worldskills Competition?
D: The Worldskills Competition is sort of like the Olympics for tradesmen.
I was nominated by EGT and entered the Sydney Regional Gold Medal. The judges observed me in the workshop then they quizzed me on control circuits. I was competing against three and four year apprentices. I did pretty well – I was half a percentage off coming third. But I’ll see how I go in the Nationals in October (23rd and 24th 2002).
FB: What do you think you’ll be doing in 10 years time?
D: Don’t know really.
I would like to be at university doing some electrical studies or maybe
I will be
My own boss and manage my own business. We’ll see!
Contacts:
Richard Slaughter
Team Leader
Sydney Water
PO Box A53
Sydney South NSW 1235
Phone: 9350 6969
Fax: 9350 6644
Amanda Dorough
Trades Manager
Sydney Water
Yagoona
Leighton Cramp
Supervisor
Sydney Water
Mark Challenger
Electro Group Training
PO Box 3063
Rhodes NSW 2138
Phone: 9736 1076
Fax: 9736 1950
