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Professions, allegedly, where you can spoof your credentials

  • 06-03-2023 10:36PM
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    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.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭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.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭Hungry Burger


    Pest Control is a good one.



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 20,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Life coaches and fitness instructors.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,611 ✭✭✭✭billyhead


    Instagrammers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭T-Maxx


    My boss. Spoofer extraordinaire.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    web designers.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,957 ✭✭✭kirk.


    Painter Decorators



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭Gorteen


    Counsellor

    Security Advisor

    Management Consultant

    Human Resource Specialist

    Fitness Instructor

    Politician



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,520 ✭✭✭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"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,308 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Physical therapists



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,339 ✭✭✭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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,640 ✭✭✭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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,100 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    ‘Performance Coach’ in sports

    Basically watch a match and give your thoughts on it



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,521 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Art therapist.

    Music therapist.

    Reflexologist.

    Homeopath.

    Chiropracter



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,902 ✭✭✭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"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭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 😎



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    US President



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,910 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    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.



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    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.

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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,910 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail




  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,313 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,521 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Wrong.

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



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 20,599 Mod ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,640 ✭✭✭Xander10


    Wedding Planner



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,100 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,140 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,955 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


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




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,223 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    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.



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