JobBridge Companies List

At the moment the relevant state department pretty much takes the word of the company that it is an internship. They need to regulate it properly and have a dedicated board of inspectors who assess and approve/reject a written submission detailing what the proposed internship will entail and how it will contribute to the development of the employee in their chosen field, and who then do spot checks to make sure this is happening. A computer science graduate doing general admin in an IT firm is not a computer science internship. There needs to be standards.

There are an untold number of places looking for people to take over from proper jobs, like folk working in coffee shops etc etc, I mean, how long does it take to train someone to make coffee, clean cars etc, I had a row on here one night with some halfwit who thought I was quite ok to take advantage of those on the dole, they tried to argue the point of it being ok to train someone in car valeting....for 18 mths...

My company is on that list.
I took one jobbridge staff member for training he got his 188 + 50, he was living at home, so he was probably had more income than me a the end of the week. After his 6, months i think it was 6, I hired him for a year.
He liked the line of work, he is now following on computer engineering in collage in Galway and is now in his last year.

I am not defending Jobbridge, it is flawed in just about every way.
But every now and again agents the odds it might work

analog in Limerick and mcmahons in Limerick Mcmahons btw are under investigation for abusing jobbridge,

Irishpride18 wrote: »

you can add Avondhu Blackwater Partnership Cork aswell.
I was on one with them.
Note i had to build a database for small school that was still in the stone age and used paper for everything.student files ect.
It was waste of time for me really. I got noting from it only stress cause one I was in over my head. Cause i had no clue about database.i got no training from them ether. Not to mind building one up and putting some bit of a complicated firewall in there.
So student couldn't get there hands on it. But thankfully my friend sorted that out with a bit of code to deal with security.

Id love to no where they thought it was a good idea to put a guy who told them. I only had 5 mods of ECDL done in School to do that kinda role.
Totally agree slavery is all them jobbriges are.

At the very least you should have been able to build the database with the ECDL. I would agree that you should not be expected to build a firewall however based on an ECDL. One more point why did you even apply for the job, if it was something you were incapable of doing never mind taking it.

Ziggieire wrote: »

I am sure companies exploit is as from the setup side its simple. you choose your candidate , they fill out a forum in the welfare office and once a month you get a email to tick some boxes on the jobbridge website asking did they show up on time and are they working well.

I only used it once as the lad wanted to get into computers, i did not know him at the time , he had no experience , i think he was 20 or 21.

He learned from me and the other lads in the office, he picked it up fast. it was a few years ago i think the terms of the placement were shorter back then, I think he was only there 6 or 8 months.

When he was sure he wanted to do it as a career he went to collage as a mature student, i game him a good honest refinance and had a call with he guy who ran the collage course.

since he went to collage the shop where he worked has closed down as we were robbed and could not keep it open.

But i cannot see Jobbridge working for anyone who has dependences the extra 50 euro is just not anywhere close enough to be able to make it work for 99% of the people out there.
And this bull **** with any company using it for free labor thats just criminal

Not surprising that FG produces people with the mentality of the likes of Peter Sutherland - "The EU should "do its best to undermine" the "homogeneity" of its member states.
Fine Gaels policies are basically about destroying society and community in general just to boost multinational profit margins to payback their puppetmasters.
Same with that fat slug John Bruton, basically a whore for the gambling wing of the financial sector.

Greenmachine wrote: »

At the very least you should have been able to build the database with the ECDL. I would agree that you should not be expected to build a firewall however based on an ECDL. One more point why did you even apply for the job, if it was something you were incapable of doing never mind taking it.

i didn't have a option to pick where i went.i had an interview with the main Jobbridge company. They find a suitable place. If I refused the placement. I would have lost my jobseekers. Which was only E100 at the time and could barley live on.you do know there is 7 modules in the ECDL. Which i stated had only 5 done. Database is one of the last modules to be done.

I'm currently an intern. I went to college and studied science and have a small qualification. I couldn't get a job so I signed on and was sent to the new version of Fas. They asked would I like to go back to college, said I'd be eligible for the back to education grant the following year, offered me an Accounting course and signed me up for Job Club! Cause that makes perfect sense! I did not belong in Job Club and they were pissed off I was sent there. Apparently they are always sent people who aren't ready to work etc and I was supposed to being heading back to college.

I had already been applying for internships in my field before going to Job Club but these days even washing beakers requires a PhD and so I applied for my current position. It's totally unrelated to my field but it does interest me and was on my CAO. I checked with a recruitment company, no qualifications necessary just a good typing speed and professional appearance if I was in this field for the long haul that is.

Before I started my internship I was told in Job Club if I learnt everything there was to learn about the job in a month to simply leave it and intern elsewhere. I think the terms are you can do two internships totalling no more than 9 months on the scheme. I was inspected and everything was fine. She was very clear about the perks of hiring me to my employer.

I don't work a full week, am living at home with no out of pocket expenses so this suits me to the ground. The last intern they had got a job after 3 months but she also had previous experience and relevant qualifications.

I think there should be minimum terms for certain internships. The likes of working in a coffee shop should not be allowed more than 3 months. Also companies should not be allowed offer unrealistic opportunities. There's a pharmacy which was offering a pharmacy technician internship! It was called Pharmacy Technician Internship with the fine print something like "after your 9 month internship you may be offered the position to train as a pharmacy tech". It's a two year college course in case you didn't know.

In short, it's good, it's bad but mostly depends what you make of it yourself. I am about to finish up, I'm eligible for back to education allowance but I didn't apply anywhere because I don't know if I'll be hired.

I'll be boycotting all those companies