The Pettitech Method

PETTITECH structures it’s curriculum format so that participants can learn the fundamentals of the HVAC industry. It is a priority to explain the “why and how” of the industry not simply the “what”.

To clarify: some training programs enable the participants to merely pass the current provincial exam without giving explanation or investigation into foundational theory. PETTITECH operates with the conviction that there is no honour in helping a half-committed technician get certified. PETTITECH aims to enable trainees to pass any exam, not simply the current provincial one. Passing an exam is only one step in producing a useful technician. PETTITECH perpetually sets it’s goal of providing it’s trainees with thorough explanations that fully answer “why” does this process or event occur the way that it does. PETTITECH provides the HVAC industry with more than just “exam passers”; those participants who are focused and deliberate will find PETTITECH training to be one of their crucial steps in moving forward towards full knowledge as competent and excellent technicians.

However, PETTITECH cannot achieve this alone; PETTITECH presumes upon it’s participants a commitment of home reading and home work. Generally, PETTITECH spreads it’s training over a several month period, giving the trainee time to read, study, and assimilate knowledge slowly, thoroughly, permanently. Pre-Exam cramming cannot achieve quality learning; pre-exam cramming can only enable someone to pass an exam – as long as they write it immediately. Pre-exam cramming damages the HVAC industry by enabling half-committed technicians to pass the provincial exam; PETTITECH training steers clear of this sort of dysfunction. 

Generally, PETTITECH courses include two exams on the first day, which sets a base line. Then a third and fourth exam is conducted at about one third of the way into the course; then a fifth and sixth is conducted near the end of the course. These exams include analysis of both the individual trainee and the class as a whole. From that analysis there is a direction determined for the remainder of the course. If a trainee needs help in a certain area, that is identified and given some focus. Then, on the final day, a final exam provides each trainee with component analysis of where they may need to focus some study before they attempt the provincial certification exam. 

This six-exam format also reduces some of the stress that may overwhelm some trainees as they write the provincial exam, simply because they have already written six, intense, PETTITECH exams in the recent past. The trainee is then over-prepared for the provincial exam and sufficiently equipped for the real world. 

The only thing worse than training employees and losing them is not training them and keeping them.