Professions, allegedly, where you can spoof your credentials

Tonight, RTÉ investigates explores the phenomenon of bogus psychologists who, according to Adam Harris, can merely put up a brass plaque and declare self as a psychologist .

This is the current example under scrutiny. A very serious example. How many other bogus “professionals” are there out there? I can think of the phenomenon of Nutritionists.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Depends on how good you are at the job in question. Fake qualifications are probably easy. but once you're on the job, you'll be found out pretty quickly if you don't know what you're doing.

In answer to your question, though: probably finance.

Hungry Burger

Pest Control is a good one.

Leg End Reject

Life coaches and fitness instructors.

billyhead

Instagrammers.

T-Maxx

My boss. Spoofer extraordinaire.

pgj2015

web designers.

kirk.

Painter Decorators

Gorteen

Counsellor

Security Advisor

Management Consultant

Human Resource Specialist

Fitness Instructor

Politician

Gusser09

HR

For all their talk and diplomas they never seem to walk the walk.

"We'd prefer if you'd sort that out at a local level"

HeidiHeidi

Physical therapists

Ubbquittious

Psychology is hard to get into. There is actually a special council that meets in Dublin twice a year to decide which foreign psychologists are eligible to have their qualifications recognised here. It's a long and painful process to get in

Also if you study psychology in Ireland you have to do a certain amount of volunteer work for Brothers of Charity or similar organisation "for your sins" before you can get an actual job

Xander10

TV & radio presenter

A job in RTE. Any idiot could do it and get overpaid. Nepotism helps.

I'm awaiting the Prime Time investigates special on it.

Weatherman. Any gobshite these days, just be able to maybe do a song or dance.

callaway92

‘Performance Coach’ in sports

Basically watch a match and give your thoughts on it

Mrs OBumble

Art therapist.

Music therapist.

Reflexologist.

Homeopath.

Chiropracter

brokenbad

The GAA is full of them - especially the bloated backroom teams of Inter County GAA...

"Performance Analyst/ Consultant"

"High Performance Director"

"Team Liaison Officer"

"Statistics Analyst"

In other areas.....

"Lifestyle & Wellness Coach"

"Social Media Manager"

"Influencer"

"Security Consultant"

"Psychotherapist"

TagoMago

Marketing - as long as you've your encyclopaedia of buzzwords and acronyms learned, and can talk the most shite on Zoom calls you'll be earning a fortune in no time 😎

Donald Trump

US President

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120323397#Comment_120323397

That is only if you want to work in the public services. You can call yourself a psychologist and work privately with no oversight or qualifications required.

mariaalice

People are mixing up woo-woo wellness stuff with jobs that you have to have a qualification in, nobody is becoming director of HR without a degree in HR and possibly a master's.

mariaalice

Do people have no responsibilities themselves for checking qualifications of anyone they consult?

monseiur

Dietitians without doubt (They should carry a government health warning😊)

Heard one on the radio recently and she was spoofing it big time. She recommended that we all should drink a minimum of 10 litres of water a day. She was called out on this by a medical doctor who spoke so much common sense - he basically said that 10 L. is way too much for a human, OK perhaps for a cow or horse ! that it would overload the kidneys and could cause serious long term damage. Drink water when thirsty not because some self appointed expert tells you to force yourself to do drink ! There is no minimum or maximum as no two people are the same or have the same metabolism etc.

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120324024#Comment_120324024

that is often easier said than done.

Wibbs

I've known a couple of psychologists who've put in the grind and have the qualifications who were rightly pissed off that any muppet with enough woo and a neck as hard as a jockey's bollocks can set up shop and claim they're a "counsellor". Never mind the inherent dangers of that to people they're "treating".

Same for actually qualified dietitians and so called "nutritionists" going around telling people they're [insert fashionable foodstuff here] intolerant.

Mrs OBumble

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120324019#Comment_120324019

Wrong.

In plenty of smaller companies,the finance manager is also the HR manager. No prizes for guessing what they're qualified in.

Leg End Reject

Interior designer

Xander10

Wedding Planner

callaway92

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120323884#Comment_120323884

In regard to the analysis titled you’ve mentioned above - why do you think these roles are spoof roles?

A performance analyst is an entry level job anyway. Even at that, the title of ‘analyst’ is generally incorrect in GAA. It’s usually somebody that does data coding rather than analysis itself.

It’s not like some wizard is needed for them

PopePalpatine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120323884#Comment_120323884

I wonder how many of those GAA middle manager/consultant types got in through nepotism, you can't spoof that. Same with politicians.

Wanderer78

i was made aware of this woman a long time ago, some have been well known about for years.....

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0306/1360656-psychologist-bogus-long-read/

Oscar_Madison

Carpenter, plumber, building contractor, roof specialist, , - these are all sought after skills but in reality do we really know the skills and qualifications of the people we employ to maintain and redevelop our homes?

I guess that’s why these “professions” rely on word of mouth and who you know- we know not to do electrical work or gas work ourselves and only with a registered contractor but after that, you could be paying a complete imbecile and many a time you are.