20,000 USD ROV Training set up in the Philippines

Hi Chewy,

As an Ops Manager hiring guys, I can tell you right now, anyone without a skill, electronic, electric, hydraulic, mechanical, but with a ROV "qualification" from an ROV school won’t even get a look in the door. I want and need skilled personnel, the offshore stuff can be taught to a trainee in a very short period of time, vocational skills like the ones I have listed take much more than three months to learn.

Those with a skill and a ROV qualification are treated with suspicion, if they are any good, why did they need (or feel the need) to do a ROV course??? A couple of hours with Google will give you a very good insight to what most ROV personnel think of courses, (a total waste of time and money), and a long list of ROV companies to send your CV to.

The ROV school qualification indicates to me a lack of motivation and interest in the job, i.e. they heard there was money to be made so did the course believing the claims of the course providers that they would have money falling from the sky the second that they walked out the front door with the ink still wet on their fancy new cert.

I would suggest to anyone who has US$20,000 burning a hole in his or her pocket to enrol in their local technical college/university and spend a year learning a skill that can be applied to real world job as well as the offshore industry. As everyone can see by the current market there is not much call for skilled ROV pilots in any other walk of life but an electrician or mechanic can go and get a job to feed his family till the industry picks up.

And regarding to your post in reply to rov_er, just about every school states minimum requirements but in reality take anyone as the school is a business, without students no money no honey. Don’t think that you will survive very long eating only your ethical standards.

Good luck with your venture but I am 99.99% sure that I will never hire anyone who has done your course and is looking for a start in the industry.

Cheers,

Dear ROVWorld community,

Due to the very poor reception of this program and the poor performance of the industry, the program has been cancelled.

Thank you for all your valuable input which helped clarify our way forward with regards to training.

I hope this closes this topic.

Cheers.