In today's world, a change of career is not unusual and when economies face difficult periods, as we do now, it's often a good opportunity to look at your current work situation. It can often be the case that a career switch, at whatever point in your working life, can be a positive forward move.All focus is on the energy industry as the drive towards meeting government renewable heating and lighting thresholds gains speed. When you train to be an electrician today, you will now need to know a whole new set of tasks in order to install green energy devices into domestic and commercial properties.The variety of work challenges in everyday electrical work are sure to keep most skilled trades people interested and engaged in their career path.The standard work is to be responsible for the testing, fitting and repairing of wiring and circuits, and the maintenance and installation of all types of electrical equipment. It is their task to ensure that wires and circuits are safe, repair faults in the electrics and install new circuits after building work is complete.To be a fully qualified electrician it is necessary to train to qualify at City & Guilds Electrical NVQ level 3. In order to do so, a first course of training must be undertaken at NVQ Level 2, which provides a foundation of knowledge necessary to be learnt before proceeding to the next stage to obtaining the full electrician qualification.For school leavers up to 19 years of age the traditional route to become an electrician is to train as an apprentice, which incorporates the relevant NVQ into the training. But for all those individuals over the age of 19, who wish to retrain, enrolling with an approved and accredited training provider is invariably the preferred option.Being an electrician is now an even more technical and highly skilled job and in addition to being hard working and committed to the job, electricians need to possess or learn a variety of different abilities, including: