What should Chemist with 1 year of using GC experience know

[VivianP]

im wondering that what chemist with 1 year experience of using GC and LC should know about these two instruments?

[Don_Hilton]

This would entirely depend on job responsibilities.

Assuming the chemist was to load samples onto the instruments, have the instrument ready to run, start runs and review data - the chemist should be familiar with daily and weekly maintanance, basic operation, integration of peaks, and recognition that there is a problem when a problem occurs. If the senior person in the lab reserves some of these tasks for him/hers self - the chemist would know less. In other situations, the chemist would be able to troublshoot the instrument and method issues and adjust conditions for injection, separation, and detection.