24th June 2014, 06:01 PM
it only takes a couple of weeks to learn how to be a digger on large excavations. it then takes a couple of years to get enough experience to be able to do a watching brief or evaluation or small excavation by which time you should have read enough to know ho to write the report. what need of training places that last for more than a few weeks? the problem today is that less scrupulous companies are shoving out ridiculously inexperienced and therfore incompetent people to undertake evaluations and watching briefs before they have learnt their trade. if those companies bid according to their staff competencies the work would probably go to those who were offering better pay because naturally they will have attracted the skilled end of the spectrum. the number 'in training' should be proportionate to those with appropriate and acredited skills - eh your bajrness?
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers