[RacoonQueen]

This one has really pissed me off. As someone who used to work in another curves I can confirm it takes no skills whatsoever to work here, there is minimum training required and working there would not benefit anyone in any way if they wanted another job in the fitness industry.

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Created on: 26/04/2012 | Updated on: 27/04/2012 | Displayed until 21/06/2012 54 days from now

Based in LUCAN Ref. INTE-679748
Description
The intern will gain practical experience in servicing members & membership sales. The intern will receive formal/informal training in the following: Curves Learning Experiences (workout, guest production, sales, personal coaching) customer service, Curves Weight Management programme. On completion the intern will have attained skills in: data management using GoFigure Software, teaching & coaching Curves workout, sales, Curves Weight Management program

Skills Requirements
Health and Fitness Industry/Qualifications. Interest in all aspects of Health and Fitness. Outgoing/Self motivated and capable of motivating others. Flexible. Positive attitude. Computer Literate.

Please Note:
This is an Internship. An allowance of €50 per week will be paid in addition to your current Social Welfare payment.See eligibility criteria above.

[sligoface]

This one has really pissed me off. As someone who used to work in another curves I can confirm it takes no skills whatsoever to work here, there is minimum training required and working there would not benefit anyone in any way if they wanted another job in the fitness industry.

Disagree on that one a bit. Have a close family member who worked in one and then went on to open her own gym. It's a lot better than some of the other internships being advertised like waiting tables, working in petrol stations, etc. At least you could work out while interning, save on gym fees.

But in general I am disgusted by the Job Bridge scheme. It's simply not being used the way it is intended, and how internships for anything obviously entry-level like waiting tables gets the OK from the powers that be in the scheme is mind-boggling.

If a job is entry-level, requiring little training, no company should be allowed take an intern for this. Likewise, if the job is highly skilled and requires someone with professional experience, it should not be allowed as an internship. The scheme should be strictly limited to situations where people have some education/experience in the field, but not enough to be considered a working professional and need to gain experience. That's what an internship is for - to gain experience. Not force people who are unable to find work into slave labor.

I think the scheme should be scrapped or drastically limited to proper opportunities. The changes I would make: The mentors should be made to take a short course in how to train people if they don't have experience or qualifications in training/teaching. The mentors should have to complete progress reports on the interns detailing what the interns duties are, what they've been teaching the intern and how well they're doing learning the job. Someone should also drop by the workplace to monitor how the mentor works with the intern and see if there is any teaching/learning going on, more than twice as the scheme says, should be once a month.

If the interns are doing well, the company should be required to take them on as paid at a decent starting salary or be struck off the scheme. If they give more than two consecutive interns bad reports, the mentors should have to be trained again, especially in regards to interviewing prospective interns/hires. If they still cannot find an intern to train up and hire within the next two internships, they should be struck off the scheme.

[blindjustice]

no company should get workers without having to pay them, it decreases the amount of paying work

[triple-M]

a once off oppertunity to gain invaluable work experience
http://intern.jobbridge.ie/Default.a...TPIb10O02Fo6g=

[ABajaninCork]

Originally Posted by triple-M

a once off oppertunity to gain invaluable work experience
http://intern.jobbridge.ie/Default.a...TPIb10O02Fo6g=

Dear God....

[uli84]

ehm what was it? I mean what I missed...;)link doesn't work for me...

[johnnybmac]

Based in ENNISCORTHY (URBAN) Ref. INTE-678448


Description

The intern will gain practical experience in milking cows. The intern will receive formal/informal training in the following calving cows, milking, tractor driving. On completion the intern will have attained skills in correctly milking cows, feeding calves, feeding cows.
Skills Requirements

Attention to detail and awareness to surroundings, willing to work around large animals.
Please Note:

This is an Internship. An allowance of €50 per week will be paid in addition to your current Social Welfare payment.See eligibility criteria above.
Department

AGRI
Mentor

The Organisation will assign a mentor to support you during the Internship.

Duration

9 Months
Number of Positions

1
Contract Type

Other
Days, Hours & Start Date

Days per week: To be Advised
Hours per day: Not specified
Hours per week: 40
Start Date: TBC
Experience Required:

No Experience Required

Education Requirements:

Junior Certificate - minimal

[ABajaninCork]

Originally Posted by uli84

ehm what was it? I mean what I missed...;)link doesn't work for me...

You didn't miss much. It was an 'internship' flipping burgers. I expect it's been either filled or withdrawn in shame!

[sligoface]

Here's an internship for a 'Reservations Assistant' (ie: Receptionist) in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Sligo, a four star hotel that is very busy with tourists in the summer as it is near Rosses Point Beach.

The intern will gain practical experience in all aspects of a hotel reservations. They will assist the Revenue Manager and her team in their daily activities. The intern will receive formal/informal training in the following; managing switch board, processing incoming reservations both by phone and on-line, database management and general administration. On completion the intern will have attained skills in customer service, administration and time management.

considering that i used to do this same job full time for a hotel here until the recession caused me to be let go, and i am now on the dole for nearly a year, this really annoys me. Working during those peak times with spoiled tourists, overbookings, etc. can be very stressful, would never do it for free.
The goal of Job Bridge, according to Joan Burton, is to get people off the dole. But if Job bridge did not exist, this hotel, who can well afford to pay someone to do this job, could be giving this job to someone like myself who has experience in the field but was forced into drawing the dole due to the recession. Not only that, but I heard that the hotel I used to work in is doing the same thing and hiring receptionists from job bridge because they don't have to pay them. So I could possibly make the case that Job Bridge put me out of work in the first place, in addition to making it nigh impossible to get another one.

[CatFromHue]

If anyone sees an internship position that is plainly not an internship you should email Jobbridge and point this out. The time taken to do so would the equivalent of posting it on here. Their email address is jobbridgeapp@fas.ie I've done it a few times myself and the ads have been removed, well as far as I know they have been anyway.

FRS Recruitment in Limerick are looking for a new employee but intend on using the Jobbridge scheme to train up the employee.

"At the end of the internship, after extensive training here in Frs Recruitment we will offer a permanent job to successful trainees. (As a huge amount of time will be spent training the intern, we are only considering trainees who intend on making a long term career with us in the Recruitment profession and will support interns every step of the way)"

http://www.irishjobs.ie/Jobs/Trainee...e-6769958.aspx

[ABajaninCork]

Found another one which I've reported...

****TEXT****
Based in OVENS Ref. INTE-680277
Description
The intern will gain practical experience in loading, unloading and dealing directly with customer orders. The intern will receive formal/informal training in the following Forklift driving, yard safety and manual handling. On completion the intern will have attained skills in warehouse management and assisting in the logistics chain.
Skills Requirements
Good knowledge of English, good personnel skills and good worker.
Please Note:
This is an Internship. An allowance of €50 per week will be paid in addition to your current Social Welfare payment. See eligibility criteria above.
Department
Yard
Mentor
The Organisation will assign a mentor to support you during the Internship.
Duration
9 Months
Number of Positions
1
Contract Type
Other
Days, Hours & Start Date
Days per week: To be Advised
Hours per day: Not specified
Hours per week: 40
Start Date: TBC

Experience Required:
No Experience Required
Education Requirements:
Junior Certificate - Forklift training and manual handling training preffered.(sic)
****END OF TEXT****

Never waste a good recession, huh?

[Toasterspark]

Originally Posted by johnnybmac

Based in ENNISCORTHY (URBAN) Ref. INTE-678448


Description

The intern will gain practical experience in milking cows. The intern will receive formal/informal training in the following calving cows, milking, tractor driving. On completion the intern will have attained skills in correctly milking cows, feeding calves, feeding cows.

For an agri student that might be interested in starting their own dairy farm, this would be an excellent opportunity to get some hands-on experience, especially if it was a decent sized farm. There's really no substitute for practical experience. What do you think is wrong with this?

[cherrieblossom]

Originally Posted by sligoface

Here's an internship for a 'Reservations Assistant' (ie: Receptionist) in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Sligo, a four star hotel that is very busy with tourists in the summer as it is near Rosses Point Beach.



considering that i used to do this same job full time for a hotel here until the recession caused me to be let go, and i am now on the dole for nearly a year, this really annoys me. Working during those peak times with spoiled tourists, overbookings, etc. can be very stressful, would never do it for free.
The goal of Job Bridge, according to Joan Burton, is to get people off the dole. But if Job bridge did not exist, this hotel, who can well afford to pay someone to do this job, could be giving this job to someone like myself who has experience in the field but was forced into drawing the dole due to the recession. Not only that, but I heard that the hotel I used to work in is doing the same thing and hiring receptionists from job bridge because they don't have to pay them. So I could possibly make the case that Job Bridge put me out of work in the first place, in addition to making it nigh impossible to get another one.

make a complaint directly to jobsbrige on this, the scheme is train people for jobs not to take jobs from people

[Mrs OBumble]

Originally Posted by Toasterspark

For an agri student that might be interested in starting their own dairy farm, this would be an excellent opportunity to get some hands-on experience, especially if it was a decent sized farm. There's really no substitute for practical experience. What do you think is wrong with this?

Ahh this bit:

Education Requirements: Junior Certificate - minimal

You're right, for someone with a farm-management qual, but no farming background, it would be great. Otherwise ...

[LLcoolJ27]

Originally Posted by quietriot

Where do we draw the line between an actual opportunity and abuse?

I would have said something like:
"Shelf-Filler Internship" at Tesco would be abuse
"Customer Service" with Insure.ie, one of the countries well known insurance companies, would be an opportunity, no? Customer service is a skill that many coming out of college certainly don't have, they'd learn secondary skills that they might not already have and it'd certainly look good on the CV.

It's €185+€50 per week for it also, isn't it?

Sounds fine to me really. A person could get a lot out of that and use it when they're finished, unlike a shelf-filler who'll learn nothing of value.

For whatever it's worth, I've met the management in insure before and they're certainly not "scabby". I don't think they'd be the type to exploit people and as I know how much their base staff are paid, they aren't exploiting who they have there now either.

Hi quietriot

I certainly do not agree with you there. Are you another mean employer? I don't agree with these bull**** americanised internships that are a horrible prospect for any graduate coming out of college. How are you supposed to get up in the morning for €235 per week? People have to pay rent (or worse a mortgage if they've already lost their job), food/bill, kids. I think it's an utter disgrace and I feel for anyone who has no option but to give in to this.
I had a friend who did this and she was struggling for months.
It is exploitation - in my opinion. Free labour ? I don't think so.