Equal Career Services (ECS) provides automotive training and development services. ECS has been registered since 2000 and is accredited by Merseta. It offers a wide range of human resources and operational development programs for the automotive industry, including assessments, technical and non-technical training, and consulting. ECS employs experienced facilitators and has a training administration department to develop assessment and training materials. It provides programs such as learnerships, skills programs, and cadet programs.

1. Introduction to Equal Career Services
ECS in partnership with GNFA

2. Equal Career Services (Pty) Ltd is a registered company since 2000.
Equal Career Services (PTY) Ltd is a company operating in the
Automotive Industry with a full spectrum of products and services
covering Assessments, Training for both Technical and Non-Technical as
well as Consulting.
Equal Career Services (PTY) Ltd is an accredited Service Provider with the
Merseta.
Accreditation number: 17-QA/ACC/0003/06.
Equal Career Services (Pty) Ltd is provisionally registered at the Department
of Higher Education and Training as a Private Further Education and Training
College.
Registration number: 2008/FE07/064

3. Equal Career Services offers a wide range of Human
and Operational Development in the Automotive
Wholesale and Retail environment.

5. Training Facilitators:
Equal Career Services employs Training
Facilitators with vast managerial experience in
Business practices. Every facilitator is
handpicked to ensure that the quality of
knowledge transfer remains at a level of
excellence.

6. Training Administration:
At Equal Career Services we operate a fully
functional Training and Development and
Administration Department.
We develop all our own assessment and training
material in line with the client’s needs and NQF
requirements.

7. Recruitment and Selection Assessments
Development Assessments
Training Portfolio Assessments
Recognition of Prior Learning
We help organisations, select,
motivate, coach and retain
top performers.

8. Assessment Principles:
 E-Profil is an online assessment questionnaire of knowledge relating to professional automotive activities
 It permits the analysis of personalised training needs
 The questionnaire provides information about the individual and collective skills of the network
Assessment Details:
1. Participant Positioning
 Positioning questionnaire - the respondent decides where they should be situated in the activity system
 The employee states the activities they are familiar with and use daily.
 Allows evaluation of person's knowledge and practices
2. Skills Analysis
 Highlights the gap between the skills they need for their role and those
they already have
 Details the improvement possibilities and indicates potential amongst
participants

9. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping
it together is progress. Working together
is success.”

10. We help build successful teams
=
Successful Companies + Great People

12. Change

13. Hard Skills will get you an interview but you need
Soft Skills to get (and keep) the job.

14. Learnerships
Skills Programmes
Cadet Programmes
Commercial Sales Cadet Programme
Passenger Sales Cadet Programme
Parts Cadet Programme
Service Cadet Programme
Aftersales Cadet Programme
Specific Need Interventions or Workshops

16. “A Leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.”

22.  ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS
 Electricity Fundamentals:
DC and AC currents
Components of an electric circuit
Magnetism
Battery, alternator and starter motor
Automotive pyrotechnic systems: precautions to be taken
Automotive electrical wiring diagrams
 Network Systems:
Multiplexing
Troubleshooting multiplexed networks
ECS in partnership with GNFA

23.  ENGINE FUNDAMENTALS
 Petrol Engine Fundamentals:
• Petrol engine dismantling
• Petrol engine reassembly
 Diesel Engine Fundamentals:
• Diesel engine dismantling
• Diesel engine reassembly

24.  ELECTRONIC DIESEL INJECTION
 Diesel Engine Direct Injection
• Engine torque
• The fuel supply circuits
• Air intake
• Electrical circuit
• Exhaust emissions control
• OBD, OBD 2, EOBD

25.  GEARBOXES
 Manual Transmission
• Manual Gearboxes
• All wheel drive transmissions
 Automatic Transmission
• Automatic Gearboxes
• CVT Gearboxes

26.  ELECTRONIC FUEL INJECTION
 Petrol Engine – Level 1
• Engine torque
• The fuel supply circuit
• Air intake
• Electrical circuit
• The ignition circuit
• Exhaust emissions control
• OBD, OBD 2, EOBD

27.  ELECTRONIC FUEL INJECTION
 Petrol Engine – Level 2
• Engine torque
• The fuel supply circuit
• Air intake
• Electrical circuit
• The ignition circuit
• Exhaust emissions control
• OBD, OBD 2, EOBD

28.  GENERAL SERVICING
 General Servicing
• Vehicle identification
• General servicing

29.  AXLES
 Axles – 4 Wheel Alignment
• The wheel: rim and tyre
• Wheel alignment
 Suspension Systems
• Suspension systems
• Electronically controlled suspension systems

30.  Brakes
 Brakes – Level 1
• Brake circuit
 Brakes – Level 2
• ABS
• ESP
• Other electronically controlled brake components

31.  AIR CONDITIONING
 Air Conditioning
• Basics of Air Conditioning
• Air conditioning circuits

32. Goals

34. Entry requirements
Grade 12
Mathematics
Science
One trade related subject
Medical Aid
Apprentices will be registered with merSETA and will be subject
to the rules and regulations for completing the qualification as
stated by merSETA, the Department of Labour and their Employer.
Knowledge Duration
Proper training needs to develop both practical skills 3 Year Programme
and theoretical knowledge. The practical skills and Trade Test to be done in Year 4
hands-on experience you need will be gained in a
fully equipped dealer workshop, whilst the training
and knowledge needed to support them will come
through attending training at a dedicated training
centre.

35. Programme: Level 1
 Apprentice Orientation
 Basic Health, Safety and Sustainability
 First Aid
 Fire Fighting
 Identifying Components
 Components: Practical
 Lifting Equipment: Bearings / Bushes / Gears
 Identify Lubricants, Materials & Metals
 Understand the fundamentals of Lubrication
 Gaskets and Seals
 Types of Locking Devices & its Applications
 Fundamentals of Tools & its Uses and Care
 Apply Basic Hand Skills & Engineering
 Mathematical Statistics
 Basic Electrics
 Vehicle Maintenance

36. Programme: Level 2
 Advanced Vehicle Technology
 Advanced Engine Technology
 Remove and Replace Brakes
 Remove and Replace Drive Train
 Remove and Replace Exhaust
 Fuel Systems
 Cooling and Air-conditioning
 Suspension and Chassis
 Steering

37. Programme: Level 3
 Diagnose / Dismantle / Repair Engine
 Fuel Induction / Turbo Charging
 Advanced Electrics
 Remove and Replace Components
 Remove / Diagnose / Replace Drive Train and Clutch
 Advanced Brake Systems
 Passive Safety

38. Programme: Level 4
 Advanced Drive Train
 Advanced Electronics / Features
 Air-conditioning System Components
 Diesel Technology / Injection Pumps
 Re-build Transmission Systems and Drive Train Components
 General Diagnosis and Repairs