Career Details :: Electronic Home Entertainment Equipment Installers and Repairers
Description
Repair, adjust, or install audio or television receivers, stereo systems, camcorders, video systems, or other electronic home entertainment equipment.
Experience
Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
Education
Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree. Some may require a bachelor's degree.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers.
Tasks
- Tests circuits, using schematic diagrams, service manuals, and testing instruments such as voltmeters, oscilloscopes, and audiogenerators.
- Tunes or adjusts equipment and instruments, according to specifications, to obtain optimum visual or auditory reception.
- Analyzes and tests products and parts to locate defects or source of trouble.
- Disassembles equipment and repairs or replaces loose, worn, or defective components and wiring, using hand tools and soldering iron.
- Installs electronic equipment or instruments, such as televisions, radios, audio-visual equipment, and organs, using hand tools.
- Positions or mounts speakers and wires speakers to console.
- Confers with customers to determine nature of problem or to explain repairs.
- Makes service calls and repairs units in customers' homes or returns unit to shop for major repair.
- Computes cost estimates for labor and materials.
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Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Repairing & Maintaining Electrical Equipment
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, Material
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Handling and Moving Objects
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Provide a Service to Others
- Frustrating Circumstances
- Indoors
- Consequence of Error
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
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