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Fermec

Hi All, Happy New Year To ye. Im Just Wondering Have any of Ye Used a Student From This Company in the Past? & If So Were Ye happy with Them..

Casinoking

Have known of a couple of students who worked out fine, and a couple of absolute disasters. They don't seem to vet the students very well, in my experience they just take their fee and pass on the CV's.

Fermec

I see, So you have to be Carefull what you pick out of the List CV,s You Get!. Iv Tried Hard to Get a Student/Apprentice from the Ag Colleges here, But it Seems They dont Want To Go To Dairy Farmers in Cork. One Teagasc Guy Actually Said That To Me on The Phone.. So Thinking of Trying This Company.

Conflats

Give The ag programme office in ucd a call
The students have to do placement in 3rd year and they are always looking for host farmers all you need is a safety statement ucd provide the insurance

Fermec

Ok , Thanks For That.:)

freedominacup

Casinoking wrote: »

Have known of a couple of students who worked out fine, and a couple of absolute disasters. They don't seem to vet the students very well, in my experience they just take their fee and pass on the CV's.

They don't vet the hosts very well either. We had au-pairs through this co. for a few years when kids were v.small and we heard some real horror stories about abuse by hosts.

Fermec

Ya I Could Believe how Some People Would Treat Them as "Slaves" Allright!.I Dont Have any Small Kids Yet, So Its Just Someone to Help me around the Farm Really,., Folks are getting Old. If You get a good one its Cheap Labour, All you have to give Them is 100 euro a Week & Feed Them. You would Have to give an Irish Person 100 a Day!.

freedominacup

Fermec wrote: »

Ya I Could Believe how Some People Would Treat Them as "Slaves" Allright!.I Dont Have any Small Kids Yet, So Its Just Someone to Help me around the Farm Really,., Folks are getting Old. If You get a good one its Cheap Labour, All you have to give Them is 100 euro a Week & Feed Them. You would Have to give an Irish Person 100 a Day!.

Most people who come through it have the right attitude. They know the score and if you're fair to them it will work well. They accept the poor pay because they want to see something different and they know it's short term.

melly

We've taken a good lot of equipeople students in the past. Agreed the vetting wouldn't be great but the majority of the students are fine. You really need to speak to the student before you agree to take them. Find out exactly what experience they have, don't just rely on what is written in their application. we once had a student that said she "worked" with a vet, turned out she observed a vet for two days.. Also need to have a lot of patience with them and after about two weeks they usually settle in to a routine. I have found that students from alpine regions are the hardiest and most willing to work...They work a maximum of 35 hours per week although most are flexible once they are getting time off. Some prefer to work up a weeks holidays at the end to see Ireland.

Fermec

How Long Did Ye Have The Students For? Iv Heard You Can Get a Student for up To 8 Months! Thats Fine if you Get a Good One , But not Good if you get a Bad one . & Did They Live in the House With your Family?.. Would they be Willing To Work every 2nd Weekend, Providing they got time off Mid-Week... Also Could You Depend on them if you Had To Go on Holidays For a Week?.. Sorry i Know These Questions are Very Vaugue, but i just want to Put My Mind @ Ease. Last Question i Promise, Did You Find Male Or Female Students Better @ Taken Direction's, Careing for Animals etc?....

freedominacup

Fermec wrote: »

How Long Did Ye Have The Students For? Iv Heard You Can Get a Student for up To 8 Months! Thats Fine if you Get a Good One , But not Good if you get a Bad one . & Did They Live in the House With your Family?.. Would they be Willing To Work every 2nd Weekend, Providing they got time off Mid-Week... Also Could You Depend on them if you Had To Go on Holidays For a Week?.. Sorry i Know These Questions are Very Vaugue, but i just want to Put My Mind @ Ease. Last Question i Promise, Did You Find Male Or Female Students Better @ Taken Direction's, Careing for Animals etc?....

One for 6 mths, rest for 3.

Yes part of deal.

Possibly? Time off? They work a 35 hour week meaning if you want them 6-6 then they finish for the week Wed at finishing time due an hours overtime.

No way. They are on work experience not experienced workers. You want that you can expect to pay slightly more per day than they get for the week.

melly

The maximum that we have taken them for is six months but in general it's for 14-16 weeks which I think is enough because as you said if they're not great then your stuck. If things don't work out they can be sent to another farm/home. Equipeople advise that they are just a helping hand so really they wouldn't really manage on their own. I don't know your set up but we are dairy and beef and I definitely couldn't leave them on their own. Maybe if your in a dry stock situation and everything was set up for them in the summer it would be ok. Maybe if you had someone to keep an eye on them they might be ok. Depends on the student. As regards weekends working, equipeople reccommend that they have at least one ful day off a week. Almost all of our students worked alot of weekends with out any hassle. They do live in the house and require all meals. I might bring them with me if I was going to town or somewhere. The ask to be brought to buses to meet friends or sight see on their days off. In general in the evenings they usually head off to their room to call friends or family on Skype. We have always got girls, work harder than the boys and easier to manage..:D

Fermec

Thanks Melly:) We Used to be Dairy/Beef, But Now we are just Dairy, Very Simple Grass Based Operation, Kinda Monkey See Monkey Do!:D. I Suppose they are Worth a Try, Id Love to get an Irish Apprentice , But as i Said Earlier they cant be got!. Plus i dont Think They arnt as good as before, "Celtic Tiger" Kinda Ruined Them.;).

melly

Definitely worth a try alright. If you get one for the 14 weeks in summer and see how you get on. Very hard to get them in the springtime through. Most of them that we've had , go to an agricultural school.best of luck with it!;)