Entry Level Qualification 

10

Career Fields 

Mechanic & Technician

For Specially Abled 

Career Entrance Exam 

No Entrance Exam

About Career 

As a Radio and TV Technician, you will carry out many tasks that include repair of radio & TV equipment, the setup, and maintenance of electrical equipment used for television and radio broadcasts as well as ensuring that the broadcasting devices are receiving and transmitting, or broadcasting signals properly. You have to be involved in the handling of the electronics equipment which are used in the broadcasting of radio and television program. This is quite an interesting job as the technician has to work on multiple parameters to ensure smooth functioning of the equipment.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

1. Install and set up the Radio or TV electronic equipment for a customer and teach them basic operations.

2. Record the customer complaints and verify the problems they have listed.

3. Disassemble the equipment and repair or replace loose, worn, or defective components and wiring, using tools or soldering irons.

4. Calibrating and testing equipment, and locate circuit and component faults

5. Enumerate cost and labour and materials.

6. Tuning or adjusting equipment and instruments to obtain optimum audio and visuals, according to specifications and manuals.

7. Monitor the strength and reliability of transmission equipment including the satellite dishes.

8 . Keeping records of work orders and making test and maintenance reports.

9. Making service calls to repair units in customers' homes or return units to shops for major repairs.

10. Instructing customers on the safe use of equipment.

11. Operate and maintain radio equipment for communication and signalling in areas like Railways, Defence and more.

Career Entry Pathway 

Class 10 all subjects as per scheme of studies- ITI course for Radio and TV technician/Diploma in Electronic Equipments Maintenance and Repair/Apprenticeship training under Ministry of skill Development or at a workshop

After finishing Class 10, you can go for an ITI course for Radio and TV technician/Diploma in Electronic Equipments Maintenance and Repair or opt for am ApprenticeShip training under Ministry of skill Development or at a workshop.

Required Qualification & Competencies 

After Secondary Studies:

After finishing class 10, you can opt for ITI course for Radio and TV technician/Diploma in Electronic Equipments Maintenance and Repair to be eligible as a Radio and TV technician. You can also enter apprenticeship training under Ministry of Skill Development, or seek out a repair company or a workshop and spend time as an apprentice.

Competencies Required

Interests

1. Investigative: You should have interests for Investigative Occupations. Investigative occupations involve working with ideas and quite a lot of thinking, often abstract or conceptual thinking. These involve learning about facts and figures; involve use of data analysis, assessment of situations, decision making and problem solving.

2. Realistic: You should have interests for Realistic Occupations. Realistic occupations involve more practical and hands-on activities than paperwork or office work. Realistic occupations often involve physical activities for getting things done using various tools and equipment. 

3. Conventional: You should have interests for Conventional Occupations. Conventional occupations involve repetitive and routine tasks as well as fixed processes or procedures for getting things done. These occupations involve working more with data, systems, and procedures and less with ideas or creativity.

Knowledge

1. Engineering and Technology: Knowledge of various applications of one or more branches of Engineering Science & Technology to manufacture and produce various goods or construct or erect various structures. This include knowledge about design, development, prototype testing, manufacturing, construction, installation, repair and maintenance.

2. Technical and Engineering Design: Knowledge of various techniques, methods, specifications and tools for creating, developing and laying out designs of various machines, equipment, devices, manufacturing plants, structures, systems and processes. This includes developing blueprints, drawing and models.

Skills

1. Active Learning: Focused and continuous learning from various sources of information, observation and otherwise for application in getting work done.

2. Coordination: Skills in working together with other people to get things done.

3. Problem Solving: Skills in analysis and understanding of problems, evaluating various options to solve the problems and using the best option to solve the problems.

4. Supervising: Skills in Supervising and monitoring performance of others, businesses, and different projects.

5. Technical: Skills in using various technologies and technical methods to get things done or solve problems.

6. Troubleshooting: Skills in determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.

Abilities

1. Mechanical Reasoning: The ability to apply basic physical principles and theories to understand how mechanical objects such as tools and machinery works and the ability to understand the rules or laws governing the work of machinery, tools and bodies in motion.

2. Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.

3. Spatial Ability: The ability to visualise three dimensional objects by looking at the objects in paper or visualise objects mentally in three dimensions.

4. Inter-Personal: The ability to build and maintain good relationships with others at workplaces and elsewhere.

Personality

1. You are always or mostly organised in your day-to-day life and activities.

2. You always feel secure in your surroundings and in most situations.

3. You are imaginative sometimes.

4. You prefer to experience new things and have new experiences sometimes.

5. You act independently sometimes but do not do so in some other times.

6. You are friendly and outgoing sometimes, but not always. You prefer company of people sometimes but not always.

7. You are always practical or in most situations.

Career - Job Opportunities & Profiles 

After finishing your ITI or Diploma courses, you can find jobs as a Radio or Tv technician in a number of fields or even go for a few entrance examination.

​​​​​​​Following are a few entry-level job roles you can take up after finishing your courses/training:

1. Service Technician

2. Radio and Television Mechanic

3. Railway electronic technician, after clearing the RRB (Railway Recruitment Board) exams.

Some organizations where you can get jobs

1. Electronic Repair Centres

2. Electronic Sales Centres

3. Media & Broadcast Houses

Work Environment

The work week is typically more than 40 hours. Most of the work is done using hands and equipment. The need for being precise is very high. Deadlines are frequent and need to be squarely met. The environment will usually be indoors and the contact with others is high.

Career Growth

Career growth is limited as a radio and tv technician. You may become fault repair supervisor or have your own enterprise with time and experience. In railways, you can start as a Group III technician and move up to Group II and Group I later.

Salary Offered  

1. The electronic technicians or the radio and tv technician usually start off with a pay scale of 10,000 to 15,000 a month

2. The average pay is around 18,000 per month

3. With time and experience, in 5 - 8 years they can become fault repair supervisor and earn 28,000 to 35,000 a month

4. However, with Government jobs such as railway technician, you can expect a salary of around Rs 25,000 per month while starting out as a Group III technician and can grow to Rs 30,000 per month in a few years by being promoted to a Group I technician rank.

Famous Personalities 

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Work Activities 

1. Installing, repairing and maintaining equipment, devices, and products: Installing, servicing, repairing, and maintaining equipment, devices, and products for usages in homes, workplaces, and industrial settings.

2. Inspecting equipment, systems, structures, and materials: Inspecting equipment, systems, structures, and materials to ascertain quality, performance, defects, causes of errors, etc.

3. Fabricating, assembling, and constructing equipment, devices, and products: Fabricating, assembling, constructing or otherwise manufacturing products, equipment, devices, and tools; testing and calibrating products, equipment, devices, tools, and systems.

4. Handling and moving objects and materials: Using hands or otherwise use physical strength to handle and move objects and materials; maneuver, install, lift, place, manipulate, etc.