BBT 10- Careers and Certification in the Automotive Industry

Careers in the Automotive Industry 

1. High-tech systems unheard of 30 years ago are now standard equipment on much of the nation’s fleet of vehicles: stability and traction control systems, adaptive cruise control and variable valve timing, just to name a few.
2. Given the advance of technology and a richly varied automotive industry that offers an array of positions and career paths, the future is bright for talented young persons with math, science, communications and technical skills.
3.  High-tech careers that require four, six, or even eight years of college, automotive technology careers can begin after just two years of education. 
4. The U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts automotive repair and maintenance industry is expected to add 237,500 new jobs and have a 30 percent growth rate through 2020.
5.  And with the outsourcing of jobs picking up steam, first manufacturing jobs, now computer programming, customer call-center work, and accounting services all going overseas, it should be comforting to know that automotive service and repair is fairly immune to such moves. 
6. 4 automotive positions that people can do are: Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) conducts the only nationally recognized certification program for automotive service professionals. ASE offers a wide range of tests that serve virtually every segment of the automotive service arena.

After watching the video I think that it would be kind of interesting if your enjoyed that stuff, like for an example, guys that like to work on cars or anything with a motor. You also would have to have a good memory to, because at all times you have to know where to put what and where to plug stuff. With this job, its fun to watch people that know what to do because everything go perfect and the thing they fixed works. What I found interesting that they can remember how to wire and put together so many different things and still like to do it. It is a life long learning process because you can never know too much and you always can learn ore on what your doing. Some characteristics that a automotive technician should have are good people skills and problem solving skills!

Certification in the Automotive Industry
      NATEF- was founded in as an independent, non-profit organization the mission of theNational Automotive Technicians Education Foundation (N A T E F) is to improve the quality of automotive technician training programs nationwide at secondary and post-secondary, public and proprietary schools.  
      SGS-  manages your supply chain and provides safe and reliable vehicles. It also improves quality, efficiency and safety and reduces environmental impact.

     ASE-  National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence. As of 1972 our independent non-profit organization has worked to improve the quality of vehicle repair and service by testing and certifying automotive professionals.


Jobs in the Automotive Industry

Growing up with all guy neighbours and cousins, you get to know your way around a car, what its like and how it runs. Also have a dad that loves to work on cars, trucks and basically anything with a motor, this stuff kind of has a interest to all this stuff. But I don't think I would have ever base my job on working on motors.