My Daily Drama – Women Daily Drama Only!

I managed a medical billing company for about four years.  I cultivated a very good working relationship with Everest, we allowed them to send their students to our facility to complete their external hours.  This worked for us, because the owners of the company were thrilled at getting four weeks of free labor from each student. Whenever possible, I tried to keep the students that showed promise on as permanent employees.   Here is how it always played out… The owner would say to the student,  we would like to offer you a permanent position within our company, but because you do not have any experience outside of your external hours we can only start you at nine dollars an hour.  The happiness and excited expressions instantly changed.  Do the math $720.00 every two weeks less taxes and the $80.00 they will need for gas to get to work, leaves about $550.00 each pay period. That is $1,100.00 for food, light, rent, car payment, insurance. Before you know it, its time to start repaying that school loan for the certification that would land them a great job.

Most organizations require one to two years of experience to be considered qualified.  Having the certification certainly helps, if you have the work experience to put with it.  I myself am in a similar situation.  I have always had some Human Resources responsibilities in my management positions, so I decided to take some H/R classes to enhance what I had learned through work.  I kept getting emails from Cornell University for ILR (Industrial Labor Regulations) classes.  I was told that this certificate would allow me to seek a job as an HR Generalist.  Well it turns out, not so much.  Ten out of ten organizations are looking for candidates with PHR (Professional Human Resources) certification.  So $12,000.00 later this class does not help me at all.

Have you been to Monster or Career Builder lately?  When you click to apply for a position, you are redirected to another page that is advertising for school.  Don’t get me wrong, I am all for furthering your education but these schools are increasing their enrollment by selling a false happy ending.  The economy is so bad so these schools are making a killing on people who want to learn a trade.  Truth be told, if you have customer service experience, you are better off going to a doctors office and applying to be a receptionist and offering to assist with other duties, before you know it you are learning the front desk and insurance.  Sure the pay may be entry level, but entry level with no loan to repay sounds so much better to me.

It is very sad to me that corporate America is really all about trying to get over.  Integrity and ethics are pushed to the side and renamed something else to ease the conscience.  It’s all about the bottom line and it doesn’t matter how it happens or if it happens at anyone’s expense, just make it happen.

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