FAS

In fairness to Annie’s review I had a similar experience with a duff advisor, but it was second time around. I think I may have talked to that lady as well, she was pronouncing Adobe (as in the software people) as Abode, sounds like i’m being picky here but when its name of the software used in one of their courses you’d think she’d get it right.
However, this proved to be exception rather then the rule with FAS. My original advisor Louisa was great, totally got what I wanted to go for job wise and steered me towards that first with an evening course and then then with a longer full time course, which I didn’t take up in the end.
I can see where Annie is coming from they do need to be reformed and if you have a bad experience when your not working its not a great confidence booster. I was probably lucky with my advisor and the very well run night course I attended.
FÁS is probably one of the few growth businesses so to speak at the moment (trying to avoid R word here) Lets hope they up their game in the near future.

I passed by this dinosaur on my way home and I had a flashback of my first and hopefully last ever experience with this pink elephant. Perhaps I am being harsh but all I can do is recount my experience.
After returning from working in the States, I took a break before I decided to get a job. I wanted to do some research first about what the environment in my area was like in Dublin, I met with a few employment agencies to learn better about the Dublin scene.
I came here and I was brought into an office that harked back to my career counsellor in secondary school who may I add was useless if I had heeded her advice I would be a scientist she overlooked the fact that I was pathetic at chemistry. So I would be an unemployed failed depressed scientist.
It was so bizarre. I was told that because my masters was from the States I would find it very hard to get a job as it would not be as good as an Irish masters. She also neglected to listen nay understand that I have a fairly extensive work and education history.
«Eh did you even hear what I said about my career to date?»
«You should sign up for a cookery course.»
«Excuse me?»
«You will never be short of a job if you know how to cook — trust me.»
Yeah… Very worrying that an organisation like that has the government endorsement to direct job-​seekers. Apparently they want to create an army of cooks now that is sure to get all of Ireland working again… Next they will want to bring back the potato plantations… So the army of cooks can cook of course silly!