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Fred writes:

I was on to you two weeks ago referencing the JobBridge scheme and
the Fish Processing position in South Kerry where I work.

While I am probably flogging a dead horse here, this is, in my opinion a worse example. A flagrant abuse of the internship scheme. I know this shop in Tralee town and basically this position is as a store attendant. Simple as. This is NOT an internship. It is free labour.

Can anything be done to stop this? Really?

Shop Assistant (Fas)

FK writes:

Here’s yet another scandalous Job Bridge programme. I currently work in employment services here in Killarney and am on the various government recruitment websites every day. This is a perfect example of the use of the aforementioned scheme that employers not only here in Kerry, but all over the country are using to get free labour
As a fish processer, the average person should take a few days to train in due to it’s basic nature. The internship infers that the intern shoud ‘learn the ropes’ of the job over a nine month period.
Some summer student, long-term unemployed person or general job seeker is losing out on a position here, as is the government due to lack of tax being paid.
As I said I see more and more of these every day and it saddens me working from the inside to see colleagues giving the go ahead.

 

Fish Processor (Fas)

You may have been following the House of Ireland JobBridge brouhaha?

Deadbeat Dolehead writes:

This advert complies with JobBridge guidelines on advertising internships which state that “no mention of experience oror preferred experience is allowed” as the object of the JobBridge scheme is to provide jobseekers with relevent experience to improve their chances of gaining employment.

For the record, the Skills Requirement section of this advert listed as requirements: “Highly motivated and willing to learn; ability to work in LAMP environment with content management systems and/or ecommerce platforms; should be confident in ability to build a website from start to finish using Content Management Systems (CMS). Demonstrate experience with PHP and MySQL. Ability to develop add-ons / modifications to the CMS and to work with source code“

The problem subsequently arose with the advert for the same JobBridge internship that was listed on the Jobs.ie website (which has also been removed) This advert had quite specific requirements for the intern applying for the position, in direct contravention to the JobBridge guidelines.

MORE: JobBridge Monitoring – And THAT House of Ireland Internship (DeadbeatDolehead)