14th September 2005, 10:18 PM
Exactly right Troll. Which is why newbies find it difficult to get hired by my employer, and many others I suspect. The bar has well and truly been raised since the bad old days.
Back to the original thread, I'd really like to see consultants give preference to commercial units that have a high average skill/experience level for excavation staff. On a recent large job we did, the consultants tried to have a go about experience levels thinking we were all students and the unit was doing it on the cheap. They shut up very quickly when it was demonstrated that the average education level was Masters level, and average commercial digging experience was about 7 or 8 years.
Do consultants factor this in? I have absolutely no doubt that an integrated, experienced field team is better value for money than a newly recruited, inexperienced team, but do consultants see it this way?
Back to the original thread, I'd really like to see consultants give preference to commercial units that have a high average skill/experience level for excavation staff. On a recent large job we did, the consultants tried to have a go about experience levels thinking we were all students and the unit was doing it on the cheap. They shut up very quickly when it was demonstrated that the average education level was Masters level, and average commercial digging experience was about 7 or 8 years.
Do consultants factor this in? I have absolutely no doubt that an integrated, experienced field team is better value for money than a newly recruited, inexperienced team, but do consultants see it this way?