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Introduction to Equal Career Services

Our CompanyEqual Career Services (Pty) Ltd is a registered company since 2000. Equal Career Services (PTY) Ltd is a company operating in the Automotive Industry with a full spectrum of products and services covering Assessments, Training for both Technical and Non-Technical as well as Consulting. Equal Career Services (PTY) Ltd is an accredited Service Provider with the Merseta. Accreditation number: 17-QA/ACC/0003/06. Equal Career Services (Pty) Ltd is provisionally registered at the Department of Higher Education and Training as a Private Further Education and Training College.Registration number: 2008/FE07/064

Our Expertise

Equal Career Services offers a wide range of Human and Operational Development in the Automotive

Wholesale and Retail environment.

Registrations / Membership

Our People

Training Facilitators:

Equal Career Services employs Training Facilitators with vast managerial experience in Business practices. Every facilitator is handpicked to ensure that the quality of knowledge transfer remains at a level of excellence.

Our People

Training Administration:

At Equal Career Services we operate a fully functional Training and Development and Administration Department.

We develop all our own assessment and training material in line with the client’s needs and NQF requirements.

Assessments

Recruitment and Selection AssessmentsDevelopment AssessmentsTraining Portfolio AssessmentsRecognition of Prior Learning

We help organisations, select, motivate, coach and retain

top performers.

Technical Assessments - ElectronicAssessment Principles: E-Profil is an online assessment questionnaire of knowledge relating to professional automotive activities It permits the analysis of personalised training needs The questionnaire provides information about the individual and collective skills of the network Assessment Details: 1. Participant Positioning Positioning questionnaire - the respondent decides where they should be situated in the activity system The employee states the activities they are familiar with and use daily. Allows evaluation of person's knowledge and practices 2. Skills Analysis Highlights the gap between the skills they need for their role and those

they already have Details the improvement possibilities and indicates potential amongst participants

Consulting

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping it together is progress. Working together

is success.”

Team Building

We help build successful teams=

Successful Companies + Great People

Team Building

  “In today’s world there are two kinds of companies………

the quick and the dead”

Change

Non-Technical Training

Hard Skills will get you an interview but you need Soft Skills to get (and keep) the job.

Non-Technical Training

LearnershipsSkills ProgrammesCadet Programmes

Commercial Sales Cadet ProgrammePassenger Sales Cadet ProgrammeParts Cadet ProgrammeService Cadet ProgrammeAftersales Cadet Programme

Specific Need Interventions or Workshops

Specific Need Interventions or Workshops

“A Leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.”

Non-Technical Training - Management

Non-Technical Training - Generic

Non-Technical Training - Sales

Non-Technical Training - Service

Non-Technical Training - Parts

“The only thing worse than training employees and having them leave, is not training them and having

them stay.”

“Zig Ziglar”

Technical Training ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS

Electricity Fundamentals:

· DC and AC currents· Components of an electric circuit· Magnetism· Battery, alternator and starter motor· Automotive pyrotechnic systems: precautions to be taken· Automotive electrical wiring diagrams

Network Systems:

· Multiplexing· Troubleshooting multiplexed networks

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Technical Training ENGINE FUNDAMENTALS

Petrol Engine Fundamentals:

• Petrol engine dismantling

• Petrol engine reassembly

Diesel Engine Fundamentals:

• Diesel engine dismantling

• Diesel engine reassembly

Technical Training ELECTRONIC DIESEL INJECTION

Diesel Engine Direct Injection

• Engine torque

• The fuel supply circuits

• Air intake

• Electrical circuit

• Exhaust emissions control

• OBD, OBD 2, EOBD

Technical Training GEARBOXES

Manual Transmission

• Manual Gearboxes

• All wheel drive transmissions

Automatic Transmission

• Automatic Gearboxes

• CVT Gearboxes

Technical Training

ELECTRONIC FUEL INJECTION

Petrol Engine – Level 1

• Engine torque• The fuel supply circuit• Air intake• Electrical circuit• The ignition circuit• Exhaust emissions control• OBD, OBD 2, EOBD

Technical Training ELECTRONIC FUEL INJECTION

Petrol Engine – Level 2

• Engine torque

• The fuel supply circuit

• Air intake

• Electrical circuit

• The ignition circuit

• Exhaust emissions control

• OBD, OBD 2, EOBD

Technical Training GENERAL SERVICING

General Servicing

• Vehicle identification

• General servicing

Technical Training AXLES

Axles – 4 Wheel Alignment

• The wheel: rim and tyre

• Wheel alignment

Suspension Systems

• Suspension systems

• Electronically controlled suspension systems

Technical Training Brakes

Brakes – Level 1

• Brake circuit

Brakes – Level 2

• ABS

• ESP

• Other electronically controlled brake components

Technical Training AIR CONDITIONING

Air Conditioning

• Basics of Air Conditioning

• Air conditioning circuits

 “No-one can predict to what heights you can soar, even you will not know

until you spread you wings”

Goals

A Career in the Automotive Industry Apprentice

Apprentice TrainingEntry requirements

· Grade 12· Mathematics· Science· One trade related subject · Medical Aid

Apprentices will be registered with merSETA and will be subject to the rules and regulations for completing the qualification as stated by merSETA, the Department of Labour and their Employer.

Knowledge

Proper training needs to develop both practical skills and theoretical knowledge. The practical skills and hands-on experience you need will be gained in a fully equipped dealer workshop, whilst the training and knowledge needed to support them will come through attending training at a dedicated training centre.

Duration

3 Year ProgrammeTrade Test to be done in Year 4

Automotive Technician

Programme: Level 1

Apprentice Orientation Basic Health, Safety and Sustainability First Aid Fire Fighting Identifying Components Components: Practical Lifting Equipment: Bearings / Bushes / Gears Identify Lubricants, Materials & Metals Understand the fundamentals of Lubrication Gaskets and Seals Types of Locking Devices & its Applications Fundamentals of Tools & its Uses and Care Apply Basic Hand Skills & Engineering Mathematical Statistics Basic Electrics Vehicle Maintenance

Automotive Technician

Programme: Level 2

Advanced Vehicle Technology Advanced Engine Technology Remove and Replace Brakes Remove and Replace Drive Train Remove and Replace Exhaust Fuel Systems Cooling and Air-conditioning Suspension and Chassis Steering

Automotive Technician

Programme: Level 3

Diagnose / Dismantle / Repair Engine Fuel Induction / Turbo Charging Advanced Electrics Remove and Replace Components Remove / Diagnose / Replace Drive Train and Clutch Advanced Brake Systems Passive Safety

Automotive Technician

Programme: Level 4

Advanced Drive Train Advanced Electronics / Features Air-conditioning System Components Diesel Technology / Injection Pumps Re-build Transmission Systems and Drive Train Components General Diagnosis and Repairs