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I love when that happens I had one manager tell a girl "I know you have a piece of paper that says you're qualified to do this but I have 25 years of experience in doing it so I think I'm right"
I always loved it when each new hire with their newly minted diploma would "DISCOVER" the answer to a problem that had only been tried (and failed) 50 times before.....as though NO ONE ever thought of this before they came on board.
there's another thread on this topic, with a link in the OP to an article in the NY Post. That article sheds more light on the story (dont worry, though, it's not sympathetic). Cant find the thread but the article's here:
If you read it you might understand what I meant about "coddled".
There are some other schools like this...which I won't name for fear of being sued....that make it sound like they guarentee you a job that will make all your dreams come true....while they're taking a person's money. But the jobs they "find" for people turn out to be not in the field of study or temp jobs. It is terrible that they are allowed to get away with this. But, that said, she needs to find a good job counselor who will help her put together a good resume, volunteer anywhere she can use what she has learned, and network with anyone and everyone who is working. That is how you really get jobs more often than not.
There are some other schools like this...which I won't name for fear of being sued....that make it sound like they guarentee you a job that will make all your dreams come true....while they're taking a person's money. But the jobs they "find" for people turn out to be not in the field of study or temp jobs. It is terrible that they are allowed to get away with this. But, that said, she needs to find a good job counselor who will help her put together a good resume, volunteer anywhere she can use what she has learned, and network with anyone and everyone who is working. That is how you really get jobs more often than not.
I think that some of the worst offenders are those automotive trade schools. And their graduates don't do any better than the people that got their foot in the door at the dealerships by starting off being the oil change guy.
There are some other schools like this...which I won't name for fear of being sued....that make it sound like they guarentee you a job that will make all your dreams come true....while they're taking a person's money. But the jobs they "find" for people turn out to be not in the field of study or temp jobs. It is terrible that they are allowed to get away with this. But, that said, she needs to find a good job counselor who will help her put together a good resume, volunteer anywhere she can use what she has learned, and network with anyone and everyone who is working. That is how you really get jobs more often than not.
Yeah there's some like that in FLorida. Advertise 24 hours a day with this girl and her son looking all sad and poor. Then she goes to this school, gets a job yesterday and she and the kid are all happy. Moral of the commerical:this school will solve all your problems. Some people never learned that you can't believe everything you see on television.
Some people never learned that you can't believe everything you see on television.
Agree that you should not believe all you see on the tube, however companies need to be held accountable for false promises and borderline fraudulent advertising. Cases in point:
Ms. Cleo
FreeCreditReport.com
LaptopTrainingSolutions (now defunct, thank goodness)
MicroSkills (to a lesser degree. They are now defunct)
At the end of the day I believe firmly that no school should offer or even advertise "job placement assistance". It's fine to post known jobs or allow job fairs or things like that, but the school should not intervene in whether a student gets a job or not, or what job they get. Part of that is due to the risk involved in such a transaction for the school, the other part is teaching the student responsibility in going out and finding a job on their own. After all, they're going to need to know how to do that without the school. That's a more valuable skill than 3 of the 4 years of college would have taught them.
At the end of the day I believe firmly that no school should offer or even advertise "job placement assistance". It's fine to post known jobs or allow job fairs or things like that, but the school should not intervene in whether a student gets a job or not, or what job they get. Part of that is due to the risk involved in such a transaction for the school, the other part is teaching the student responsibility in going out and finding a job on their own. After all, they're going to need to know how to do that without the school. That's a more valuable skill than 3 of the 4 years of college would have taught them.
I agree with you to a certain degree but not completely. My degree was in Communications (and then English because I realized I hated journalism and would never ever want to work in that field) and I got my first job out of school through the school’s resource center. They didn’t make any promises about jobs but they held workshops on resume writing, interviewing, etc and they hosted job fairs often. I didn’t really need the workshops but I still took advantage of all of them. I became pretty friendly with one of the counselors and one day she called me and said someone had sent a job opening to her and she thought I’d be perfect for it. She didn’t even post it on the schools website so I didn’t have any competition. So while I don’t think schools should promise job placement I don’t see anything wrong with them having a resource center. It’s all about networking anyway.
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I had one manager tell a girl "I know you have a piece of paper that says you're qualified to do this but I have 25 years of experience in doing it so I think I'm right" 
