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Posted By: Michael J McMillan <mjmcmillan@sisna.com>
Tuesday, 1 March 2005, at 6:20 p.m.
For those of you who think scams are all about on-line bizzops, it "just ain't so'. A few days back, I scanned the help-wanted columns, saw something of interest in the field of computer technical support, and responded. It was supposedly an ad for techs, paying approximately 35 grand a year. Yesterday, I received a phone call. It turns out the ad was placed by a school, looking for tech people wanting to get credentials to further their careers. No job, no 35K income, no nothing, really except a chance to take course ON LINE to get your MCSE and half a dozen other credentials. It would be a two-week course, and cost 13 grand. Oh, yes, you get a laptop that has VoIP on it, too.
No, before you ask, I didn't go for it. First, because they lied to me in their ad to begin with. Why, at this point, should I believe anything else they say? Second, if you're going for technical credentials it's probably going to take more than two weeks to really do it right. Otherwise, you end up as one of those poor saps with half the alphabet after their names but unable to de-bug a simple script. It's probably going to take some hands-on work, too. Not just reading about it and cramming for tests. Third-- OK, I'd heard of these kind of schools before. You've undoubtedly seen a variant in your in-box before you set your spam filters to weed them out. Diploma mills. Credential mills. "Get your degree and get a good job" factories. You get enough degrees that you could pass yourself off as a thermometer, credentials and diplomas paper your walls so you'll never have to paint them again, and--- you still can't get a good job. Reason: Businesses have found out about these places, and they know what a prospective employee with one of these documents is likely to be really worth. They know which schools to watch out for in advance.
So, a word to the wise. Not all help wanted ads are really looking for help. Some are looking for the gullible. Save your money, and go to a real school. It'll be worth more in the long run.
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