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Jobbridge internships - feedback from past users?

  • 07-03-2013 09:23PM
    #1
    ongarboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I'm considering taking up a Jobbridge internship with a completely different company in a very different industry to what I have been working at for the last 12 years. I am willing to live on the dole plus 50 euro offered wage for the next 6 months if exposure to this new job helps guide me into a new career that gives me more satisfaction (or indeed get a full time job with the internship employer).

    To give a bit of background, I left my last industry due to being completely burned out and disillusioned with it to the point of hating it and am very eager to try something new. After taking a few months out to travel, I signed on at Xmas and did up my CV but while job hunting, most agencies said I was too over qualified for the various roles on offer and therefore unsuitable and only wanted to push my CV back into the industry I just left which I clearly did not want.

    My question is, has Jobbridge benefited any of you that had experience of it? I read some media articles that some employers abused it and used it as free labour for poxy dead end work jobs. I mentioned this to the FAS officer and she was adamant that the unscrupulous employers had been weeded out and only legitimate employers are on the scheme now that are constantly monitored to ensure proper internship/training is conducted for worthwhile jobs. I'm taking her word on this but would like to hear on the ground experience from any of you that have it before I decide to commit to this scheme. Thanks!


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  • #2
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,263 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


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  • #3
    T-K-O
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,309 ✭✭✭T-K-O


    I graduated with a degree in comp science in 05. From 2006 - 2011 I was working in a completely different sector. In late 2011 I was so fed up I decided to quit my job and get back into I.T

    I sent my CV around and managed to get a few interviews. They all went well but ended the same way. Not enough experience. I had no experience what so ever in IT.

    After 3 months applying for jobs I decided that jobbridge / intern was the way to go.

    To cut a long story short, 8 months later I was on the job hunt again. With that experience on my CV I had three interviews within a week. Two weeks later I was in full time employment.

    When I interviewed for the positions (3) I did my best to interview them to ensure that the company was right for me.

    Living on 180+50 is not easy but that was the best move I have ever made.
    I've heard a lot of negative press about job bridge but it worked for me. Good luck..


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