Training needs a complete overhaul.  Current training for electronics may satisfy some arbitrary DCJS rule but it is definitely inadequate for the industry and the general public. Electronics is a dynamic industry.  If they even take the training, unethical companies are presenting the current training as making them "experts" while most of us realize it gives them close to nothing having to do with the real job of an ES salesperson or technician. 

If the industry itself is challenged to keep up with new products and services, it only makes the "required" programs more meaningless.  We are forced into supporting a cottage industry created by DCJS regulations that serves no real world purpose and does nothing to protect the general public. 

ES needs to have the ability to train from within and be specific to the type of business we, as individiual companies, do and the specific equipment and services we provide. 

These are costs that the business often incurs without any benefit other than satisfying a regulatory requirement.  ES is forced into supporting schools that for 17 years have not been able to provide meaningful, up to date education/training to our industry.