Many people know that power plant jobs at electric utility companies in the United States pay well and employees receive excellent benefits. If you are on a job search for high paying entry level jobs, and you are without a college degree, this industry is where you should focus your efforts on. If you’ve been using job search engines such as yahoo hot jobs and monster jobs and still have not been hired, isn’t it time you
change your career search strategy
?
Read my story about how I went from low paying dead end jobs for most of my life, to an opportunity that offered entry level power plant jobs without a college degree and with no experience. Without a degree I earned $85K in my second year of employment, and this is undoubtedly my highest paying job ever.
I’m sharing this story and started this website because I thought that if I could do it, so can others. You just need to know where to look and how to increase your chances of getting hired, which includes getting familiarized with a
POSS Test
. The POSS exam is an aptitude test to simply help employers consistently select capable, qualified individuals for certain power plant jobs. The
homepage has information about the steps I took.
I knew that workers at the plant with job titles such as power plant control room operator, operator helpers, and boiler operators were among the highest paid people I knew that were without a college degree. The problem was I applied for jobs there, but no one ever called. And for 20 years I just wrote it off and believed that the only way to “get in” to power plant jobs was to have inside connections. Besides everyone said that there’s no job openings – the only way a position would become vacant was if someone died. And for about two decades that was true.
Twenty years later and still fed up with low paying dead end jobs, and living paycheck to paycheck I decided to do a more focused job search. I concentrated in industries of top paying careers, but many positions required a college degree, which I didn’t have. Then I don’t know how I found it, but I came across an
interesting article similar to this about the worker shortage in this industry
, and it changed my life.
Power plants, like the one that serves my home and is less than a mile from where I live, were experiencing a worker shortage triggered by the rapid pace of baby-boomer retirements. These boomers were nearing the end of their power plant employment after 20-30 years in their power plant careers without a college degree.
To make a long story short, I went from $24K per year in my old job to $85K in the second year of my power plant job. And because of the retirement exodus, it wasn’t too difficult to get hired for entry level jobs, even with no experience and without a college degree.
For many years I knew that utility companies was a good place for power plant careers and power plant employment, but I never thought that I would one day get hired for one of the power plant jobs that became vacant due to a retirement. Now that I’ve been here for 2 years I feel this is the best industry for top paying careers and
alternatives to college.
If you are open minded and exploring income options outside of the power supply industry, click here to find out about
work from home jobs/ stay at home jobs.