Careers and Certification in the Automotive Industry Part One of Three

1. Some of the high-tech systems on auto mobiles today that were unheard of 30 years ago,and are now the nation’s fleet of vehicles: stability and traction control systems, adaptive cruise control and valve adjustment, and there is much more.
2. Areas that young people should have skills in for a career as an automotive technician is math, science and technical skills.
3. Some advantages in obtaining an education as an automotive technicians versus other high-techs educational options are require four, six, or even eight years of college, automotive technology careers can begin after just two years of education. 
4. Many new jobs and at what percentage of growth do they forecast will occur in the automotive technician field up to 2020 are expected to add 237,500 new jobs and have a 30 percent growth rate through 2020.
5. One thing that the automotive technician career is fairly "immune" to that has threatened other career is with the outsourcing of jobs picking up steam – first manufacturing jobs, now computer programming, 
6. Four other positions automotive technicians do is painting, damage repair, maintenance and performance upgrades.
7. The automotive technician role sometimes called "the portal career" because In fact, so many people have started their careers in the automotive aftermarket as an auto technician that it is viewed as something of a portal career.