Work Experience
Two Year Requirement
In addition to passing one or more tests, ASE certification requires that you have two or more years of appropriate full-time, hands-on working experience in the motor vehicle service industry. If you have not previously provided work experience information, you should print and complete a Work Experience Report Form. You must return this form to receive a certificate.
You may take tests (except X1, L1, and L2) before you have two years of experience. You will receive a score report, but you will not earn certification or receive certificates until you fulfill the experience requirement.
Different Experience Types
Experience as a repair technician does not satisfy the separate experience requirements for Collision Damage Estimator (test B6), Automobile Service Consultant (test C1) or Parts Specialist (tests P1 through P4 and P9).
Substitutions
You may receive credit for up to one year of the two-year work experience requirement by substituting relevant formal training in one, or a combination, of the following:
- High School Training: Three full years of training, either in automobile/truck/school bus repair or in collision repair, refinishing, or damage estimating, may be substituted for one year of work experience.
- Post-High School Training: Two full years of post-high school training in a public or private trade school, technical institute, community or four-year college, or in an apprenticeship program may be counted as one year of work experience.
- Short Courses: For shorter periods of post-high school training, you may substitute two months of training for one month of work experience.
You may receive full credit for the two-year work experience requirement with the following:
- Completion of Apprenticeship: Satisfactory completion of either a three-or four-year bona fide apprenticeship program.
To have your training considered as a substitute for work experience, send an official transcript of courses, or a statement of training, or a certificate showing satisfactory completion of apprenticeship, with your Work Experience Report Form. Documents should show length of training (hours or weeks). ASE reserves the right to evaluate all requests for substitution of training for experience and to grant such credit as may be appropriate.
Work experience other than that described above also may be credited toward fulfillment of the two-year experience where, in the ASE’s judgment, the nature of the experience so warrants.
Related Documents
Work Experience Form (pdf)
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