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Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers

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Practice prompts based on occupational tasks

These Applyace practice prompts use O*NET tasks for audiovisual equipment installers and repairers. They are not reported employer questions. If you have not done a task, explain your approach and learning needs instead of inventing experience.

  1. 1. Install, service, and repair electronic equipment or instruments such as televisions, radios, and videocassette recorders.

    Describe a real example of this task. What was your responsibility, and what happened?

  2. 2. Calibrate and test equipment, and locate circuit and component faults, using hand and power tools and measuring and testing instruments such as resistance meters and oscilloscopes.

    How did you decide which approach or tools to use? Explain the tradeoffs.

  3. 3. Confer with customers to determine the nature of problems or to explain repairs.

    What could go wrong during this task? Describe how you would check your work.

  4. 4. Position or mount speakers, and wire speakers to consoles.

    Explain a time you coordinated this work with someone else. How did you communicate?

  5. 5. Instruct customers on the safe and proper use of equipment.

    How would you handle an unfamiliar part of this task? Identify what you would need to learn.

  6. 6. Make service calls to repair units in customers' homes, or return units to shops for major repairs.

    What evidence would show this task was completed successfully?

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Install, service, and repair electronic equipment or instruments such as televisions, radios, and videocassette recorders.

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Questions to ask the interviewer

  • Which of these occupational tasks takes the most time on your team?
  • How do you measure success in the first three months?
  • Which tools, training and support are available for this role?

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