Essential Skills Manual - Automotive Service Technician

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

INVENTORY TECHNICAL READING

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AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE

TECHNICIAN

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Automotive Service Technician

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From the article below, answer the following questions.

1. What is as important to you, as an Automotive Service Technician, as your
   tools?
   You will need a good education.____


2. What is the average salary for an AST?

___Experienced technicians make $40,000.00 or more annually.

3. Name another career for AST’s that is not mentioned in the article.

___Answers will vary.______________________________

Automotive Service Technician

You can follow your dream. You can become an Auto Technician, have a solid

career ... and make good money. The demand for technicians has never been

better.

What you need.

Although a good set of tools is needed, they’re just the beginning. Stick with your

books. You’ll need a good education. Believe it or not, what you are learning in

your classes will be a help. You will use what you learned in Math to help you.

Science is necessary to understand the working of the car. You will need skills to

read shop manuals and use computers. You’ll have to be able to deal with

customers and coworkers, and write work orders and reports.*

If you want it enough, there’s almost no limit to what you can do. Beginning

salaries are the same as other trades; experienced technicians can earn $40,000.00

and up. Some top-notch technicians earn much more!

While many students get jobs right out of high school, others may go on to seek a

two-year course from the local community college.

Many technicians love repairing cars and have good careers doing just that. They

may become service managers, race team pit crew members - even auto teachers.

Some may own their own shop or manage a shop or car dealership.

http://www.gate.org, Career Information, Automobile Technician

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