Check whether helper experience can count
U1: Zero experience to first-year apprentice
Review how to document helper experience and check whether it can count.
What you’ll do
- Build an experience-verification question sheet
Completion criteria
- Source and review date
- Confirmed information and open questions
- Record privacy
First step
List actual helper duties without relabeling them as licensed work. Practice case (fictional, B01 structure): a maintenance helper has A, two dated work orders, each initialed by a supervisor, that read 'assisted with counting sealed replacement-stock boxes in the storeroom' and 'assisted with transcribing dates from maintenance paperwork into the log'; B, a self-description 'basically did electrician work'; C, the job title 'maintenance helper'. No experience-credit decision is supplied. Before opening the guide, draft the redacted duties-and-records sheet: each duty with its evidence status, plus the credit decision. Changed case: a manager says 'all your hours will count'.
Worked output (fictional, redacted): Duties written in A's words in a current-role column, not renamed as licensed work: (1) 'assisted with counting sealed replacement-stock boxes in the storeroom'; (2) 'assisted with transcribing dates from maintenance paperwork into the log'. Evidence status: A, dated record with a supervisor's initials, supports what was done and when, and that a supervisor checked the record; it does not show who else worked on the task and does not decide credit. B, unverified self-description, not used as evidence; C, title only, proves no qualifying experience. Records and supervisor: supervisor identified by role only; originals kept private. Credit decision: UNCONFIRMED; a question for TDLR based on the actual duties and records. This meets the finish checks: source and review date, confirmed records separated from questions, no private details. Changed case result: record the manager's statement as an unverified claim, ask for supporting records and the proposed credit in writing, and keep the credit decision UNCONFIRMED until TDLR clarifies it.
First error: rewriting the duties as 'electrical work' or 'apprentice hours', or counting B and the title as proof. Correction: list actual helper duties in the words of the record, give each claim an evidence status and take the credit question to TDLR; a title or self-description proves no qualifying experience. In the changed case, a manager's promise is not approval: do not change the job title or mark credit confirmed.
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