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[jmo21]

I'm trying to steer a guy away from these muppets on another forum I use.

You've seen the tv ad's I'm sure.

£1200 for some IT course, MS qualifications, guarantee of a £25k job or money back etc.

He thinks it sounds good, I say it's crap, who can guarantee a job in this climate etc etc

Any comments from the gallery on what I else I can do to make sure he doesn't go for this.

[Cliphead]

Is that the mob who open their ad with the statement 'the average job in IT earns £37k'?

Then imply a six week training course is all you need to jump on the gravy train

[redfive]

That ad makes me laugh; it suggests an average salary of £37k'ish and the guy comes walking out of his house that is probably worth £350k to £400k (or more depending on where it is) and jumps into a car costing more than a years salary.

Now a person earning £37.5k could certainly own a house like this and a car like this but the way the ad is done suggests that he acquired all this because he completed one of their training courses.

Pants!!

[PM-Junkie]

Is that the mob who open their ad with the statement 'the average job in IT earns £37k'?

Then imply a six week training course is all you need to jump on the gravy train

I've always wondered how they get away with that ad. Surely the ASA should have slapped them down by now??

[chicane]

I'd swear some of the people I've had the misfortune of working alongside in the past have little more than a six week training course under their belt.

[jmo21]

I'd swear some of the people I've had the misfortune of working alongside in the past have little more than a six week training course under their belt.

I know for a fact of 2 who were utterly hopeless at a permie job years ago. It was a penny pinching small software house with lots of very good people and these 2 stuck out like a sore thumb.

They eventually got laid off.