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Learn to Estimate at Your Own Pace
The solution came to us and it felt like it was in front of us all along. Why were we deciding what you needed? The program now allows you, the student, to pick whatever level of support you want and the tuition cost would be based on that decision. Each student still gets a Course […]
Electrical Estimating Training for Real-World Results
With four successful electrical estimating training sessions under their belts, Linda and Marc Candels are ready to kick off 2019 with their fifth Electrical Estimating Training and Apprenticeship which starts on January 29. The Candels Electrical Training Academy teaches the art and science of electrical estimating. The four-month session covers a wide range of topics as […]
Does knowing software make me an electrical estimator?
You took the electrical estimating software training. Are you now an estimator? One of the biggest fallacies in the electrical industry is that knowing how to operate an electrical estimating software package automatically “makes you an estimator.” While knowing software is very important to the estimator’s role, this is only a piece of the estimating […]
Women in Electrical Estimating
The best students have a combination of aptitude and attitude! When we teach our electrical estimating apprenticeship, we often say that the best students have a combination of aptitude and attitude. To our delight, some of our most successful students have indeed been women, women without any electrical experience. How can a woman with no […]
Construction Labor: Unforeseen Job Factors and How They Influence Job Performance
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds,” or so goes the saying engraved in the front of the US Postal Service Building in New York City. Unforeseen circumstances can affect your job labor costs! Just as snow or rain will not […]
Bidding and Relationships – Why are they so Important?
Bidding and relationships have a lot in common. Sometimes, in the midst of completing an electrical estimate or take-off, you are suddenly faced with a decision of whether or not to bid the job. It happens all the time! You have every intention of bidding the job but then you have doubts based on quality […]