So You Want to Be an Examiner?

Sign up for 1 or more training sessions at Hampton Riding Centre

What it takes…

• General horse knowledge/experience and the desire to share your passion for all things equine
• Being a people person who can work with others
• A willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges
• A willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction
• This job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude and being sensitive to other people’s feelings.
• This job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations
• This job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations and being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.

What do you have to do?

• Be at least 16 years old
• Be working toward or already have your Instructor of Beginners certification
• Shadow and begin to develop your “eye”
• Be a positive role model for all riders
• All evaluators must have had a full overview of the Rider Level Program 1-10 presented to them prior to any testing. The list of approved evaluators is to be maintained in the provincial office and all evaluation organizers must use a current approved evaluator.
• Yearly, or as offered, evaluators must attend a provincially approved review to establish a new provincial list of approved evaluators.

What’s in it for you?

• Improve your skills and knowledge of each Rider level.
• Confidence and public speaking
• Get to work with EC Competition Coach Jennifer Hanson
• Receive help in achieving your certification to become an Examiner/Evaluator with EC
• Once certified, you will make money spending time at the barn.