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Were WPP created to encourage emigration?

  • 09-08-2010 1:36pm
    #1
    papachango
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭


    When most of the 'jobs' advertised now mean working for nothing via Work Placement Programmes (WPP), where are prospective employees going to look for paid work?
    eg One of the biggest alcoholic drinks manufacturers advertise a WPP for a highly skilled and experienced Health and safety coordinator on the FAS website (Job reference - JB560144);
    "Person Specification: The candidate will need to have strong OHS technical capabilities & experience, excellent communication skills and be a strong influencer/motivator at all levels of our business."

    So experienced professionals are now EXPECTED to work for free in Ireland. I mean the new employees transport and lunch costs would not even be reimbursed via these WPPs. So they are not plausible for anybody to take up who has bills to pay, like a mortgage or a loan.
    It is clear to see that the only real beneficiaries are the companies involved and the associated shareholders via reduced costs.
    What are the only real alternatives to people looking for 'PAID EMPLOYMENT' in Ireland?
    Are these WPP programmes designed to deliver a reduction in the live register via emigration and 'unpaid' employment?
    Or are they designed to encourage mass emigration of talented Irish people?
    What then for the knowledge economy?
    Whats the point of WPPs? Please refrain from saying 'gaining experience'. As I have just shown that companies using the WPP are looking for candidates that already have 'Strong Experience' already.

    What are your thoughts on the real reasons behind WPP?
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Comments

  • #2
    clarelad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭clarelad


    Mostly slave labour and donkey work,if your not learning anything get out, as i did today:)


  • #3
    JGEP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭JGEP


    Hi Clarelad, I have been applying for some WPP positions lately, could I ask how long you stayed in the WPP job? Was it of any use to you for future positions? Or did you believe that there could be a paid position at the end of the 9 months?

    I really do doubt that they are anything more than free labour but there are so many claiming that it's better than doing nothing. I do agree that they may be better than doing nothing, but they could be also be very demoralizing too.


  • #4
    clarelad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭clarelad


    JGEP wrote: »
    Hi Clarelad, I have been applying for some WPP positions lately, could I ask how long you stayed in the WPP job? Was it of any use to you for future positions? Or did you believe that there could be a paid position at the end of the 9 months?

    I really do doubt that they are anything more than free labour but there are so many claiming that it's better than doing nothing. I do agree that they may be better than doing nothing, but they could be also be very demoralizing too.

    Stayed there for 3 months,i think the reference was the biggest thing and the fact that i had a decent company on my CV which prob helped me land my new job:) same day as i was leaving and all what are the chances:)
    there was no training or structure to my WPP and they were happy enough to let you surf the net all day,i asked them straight out after 2 mths would they keep me on after 6 months and they came back to me the following day and said no so i knew where i stood with them then...
    i was using them for the reference really after that,play them at their own game,starting my new paying job next week:)...i also told them straight up what i thought of the programme but they did not seem to care...
    saying that it is a great weight off my shoulders to be out of there...


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