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The Training Room, IT course scam
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StevenwithaPH
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I don't really know if this is the right place to post...
I graduated with a degree in product design in 2017 and started working for a small electronic company. I joined a course 2 years ago. I started and noticed that the quality of the material was really bad - basic but it was too late to cancel. They said once I'd seen the course, I couldn't get a refund; however, if I finished, I was told at the start that I'd get unlimited interviews with the cooperating partners.
Around the time I joined, job security wasn't great. Shortly after starting, I got made redundant. I found and a new job was made redundant late last year for covid.
I soldering on, doing the thousands and thousands of pages or work that was littered with mistakes and I have now finished the course and I haven't actually learnt anything. Regrettably, most of my learning has come from youtube and other free sources. I kept telling myself that it'll be ok because I have the career support, someone to help me get my foot through the door.
But now I have been told that the partner's arent interviewing. Also every time I ask my career support person the extent to which she should be helping me, she doesn't answer the question. All she does is send me links to jobs that I can do myself.
I wanted to push myself all those years ago, take active steps to better my future but I think I have been scammed in every sense of the word. I feel even more stupid because my gf, now wife told me not to but I thought it was a win-win, all I had to do was finished. I have got there now and I have nothing, I have no job. The bills aren't going anywhere, I have a £3K+ loan that's bleeding from my savings.
I don't think these people will ever help me.
I don't know what to do
I graduated with a degree in product design in 2017 and started working for a small electronic company. I joined a course 2 years ago. I started and noticed that the quality of the material was really bad - basic but it was too late to cancel. They said once I'd seen the course, I couldn't get a refund; however, if I finished, I was told at the start that I'd get unlimited interviews with the cooperating partners.
Around the time I joined, job security wasn't great. Shortly after starting, I got made redundant. I found and a new job was made redundant late last year for covid.
I soldering on, doing the thousands and thousands of pages or work that was littered with mistakes and I have now finished the course and I haven't actually learnt anything. Regrettably, most of my learning has come from youtube and other free sources. I kept telling myself that it'll be ok because I have the career support, someone to help me get my foot through the door.
But now I have been told that the partner's arent interviewing. Also every time I ask my career support person the extent to which she should be helping me, she doesn't answer the question. All she does is send me links to jobs that I can do myself.
I wanted to push myself all those years ago, take active steps to better my future but I think I have been scammed in every sense of the word. I feel even more stupid because my gf, now wife told me not to but I thought it was a win-win, all I had to do was finished. I have got there now and I have nothing, I have no job. The bills aren't going anywhere, I have a £3K+ loan that's bleeding from my savings.
I don't think these people will ever help me.
I don't know what to do
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Who are these 'co operating partners'?
Ask when they expect to resume interviews. It won't be a scam in any sense of the word (and there is only really one), even if the course hasn't met your expectations.0 -
Perfect skills for electronics. Sorry couldn't help myself.StevenwithaPH said:I don't really know if this is the right place to post...
I graduated with a degree in product design in 2017 and started working for a small electronic company.
I soldering on,4
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