Safer working conditions
      Learn while you earn
      Pride and dignity
      Excellent wages
      Health and pension benefits
      State-of-the-art training

Apprenticeship requires a signed agreement between you and the IBEW-NECA, which insures
quality training both on-the-job and in the classroom. As an apprentice you literally earn while
you learn. As you advance through your training, you will receive predetermined pay increases.

In signing an apprenticeship agreement, you commit to participate in classroom-related training
as well as on-the-job training.

Applications will be accepted at Messick Adult Education Center, Memphis Electrical JATC office, 703 S. Greer, Building A, Room 104, Memphis, Tennessee 38111.  You must apply in person.
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An individual who can show that they meet the conditions listed below, after making application for apprenticeship, will be  interviewed by the JATC. If interviewed, the applicant will be listed among those applicants qualified for selection, for a period of two (2) calender years from the date they were interviewed.

To be interviewed the applicant must:

A. Be a minimum of 17 years of age.

B. Qualify for interview using the electrical trade's aptitude test developed and validated by the
     American Institutes for Research.

C. Present evidence that they possess a valid driver's license.
 

Points of interest:
* Prior to being indentured, applicants selected from the pool of interviewed applicants must be
     at least 18 years of age.

* Prior to being indentured, applicants selected from the pool of interviewed applicants may be
     required to provide results of a physical examination and a drug test as decided by the JATC.

* Individuals who can verify (proper documentation required) that they have worked a minimum
     of four-thousand (4000) hours, specifically in the electrical construction trade, will bypass the aptitude test and qualify for an interview.

The recruitment, selection, employment and training of apprentices during their apprenticeship, shall be without discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex or age - except that the applicant must be at least 17 years of age to apply and 18 years of age at time of indenture.  The JATC does not, and will not, discriminate against a qualified individual with a disability because of the disability of such individual.  The sponsor will take affirmative action to provide equal opportunity in apprenticeship and will operate the apprenticeship program as required under applicable law and lawful regulation issued thereunder.

Applicants who meet all basic requirement will be interviewed by the JATC.  Apprentices will be selected in order of their final ranking.