First class welder skills assessment

[Carlytip]

Has anyone recently done the skills assessment for first class welder? My husband was a welder on the Railway for 9 years but has been out of it now for 6 years. We have been talking to an agent who said he would need to do the skills assessement. I have tried to find further information and it states that you need photographs etc of him doing welding. This would be impossible because obviously he doesn't do this job anymore.

 

Really stuck on whether to take the chance and go for it and will it just be a waste of money if itsngoing to be very difficult and unlikely to pass.

 

Any advice would be great

[SOMV]

Carlytip your husband will not be able to get a positive skills assessment unless he has worked as a welder in the last 3 years. Here are just two of the skills assessment criteria:

 

To be eligible for assessment you must have:

 

 a minimum of five years’ paid full time employment in your trade at the required level - so this could be fine from what you have written

and

 worked in your trade in the last three years - this is your issue!