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Complaint Review: CDI College - Brampton Ontario

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  • CDI College 389 Main St., 2nd Floor Brampton, Ontario Canada

CDI College Took my money and didn't deliver on their promises Brampton Ontario Canada

*REBUTTAL Owner of company: sad

*Consumer Comment: The sad truth.....

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I applied for the medical laboratory technician program. First off, they said there wouldn't be any more than 12 - 14 people in the class. There were 36 people. The lab wasn't even finished being built when we started our lab work. We didn't have the supplies we needed. We sat around for the first 2 weeks hardly doing anything because we didn't have any supplies. One of the work tables didn't have a top on it for the first 3 months. We didn't have ECG beds until 4 months in, and even then, it took another 2 months to get the curtains.
They promised that we would have a qualified instructor in the lab with us, but because they crammed so many people into one class, they had to divide us into two groups. While one group was in the lab, the other was in the classroom, and then at lunchtime, we'd switch. We had our instructor in the classroom, but we had a "teaching assistant" (she wasn't qualified to be a teaching assistant) in the lab with us, who turned out to be one of his former students who just graduated one month before we started our course. She didn't teach us anything, just sat there gossiping all day.
Our instructor started trying to get placements for us at the beginning of the course. Even by the end, some people still didn't have work placements. We graduated in June of 2005. I didn't get my placement until August/September of 2005. Nearly 3 months later. Our work placement was supposed to be the last 2 weeks of the course, meaning the last 2 weeks of June.
They also promised that they would help us find jobs when we were done, but they didn't.

It's now nearly 3 years later, and I've never gotten a job in my field since going to CDI. They said that their employment rate within 6 months after graduation was 70%, but that was clearly a lie, because none of the other 36 people in my class have gotten a job in their field, either. I hear similar stories from other CDI graduates. No one can get a job after going to CDI. A CDI diploma isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
CDI has a bad reputation with employers.

Sherri
Brampton, Ontario
Canada

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#2 REBUTTAL Owner of company

sad

AUTHOR: Toni - (Canada)

POSTED: Sunday, March 27, 2016

I am sorry that happened to you. The same things happened to me I was very lost at the time also to which the rep Patricia played on I didn't realize at the time that we were just money she didn'tcare about anything else. She told me that the school had a high employment rate, this was a lie. I found ouit that she used to be a rep at Everest College and she is not liked by many of the students she lied to. I to took it off my resume as I found out that the school is not liked. I was left with a hugedebt that they do not care about. The entry exam was a joke and most of the people didn't even speak english but that is the people they prey upon the vulnerable. I would not suggest this rip off school to anyone.

 

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The sad truth.....

AUTHOR: Curtis - (Canada)

POSTED: Monday, June 14, 2010

I remember that 70% emplyment number they threw around in their advertising.  NONE of the people in my class found ADEQUATE JOB-RELATED employment either(meaning that the job had SOMETHING to do with what you studied!)  One was a part time secretary but I  HARDLY consider that a BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION job!?  They had started this whole "job board" thing at the skool around the time I was set to graduate and it listed certain grads and where they were working.....they wanted to show off the companies who hired CDI grads but it never stated the JOB TITLE?!  I remember I got a phone call asking if I found related employment(I did not) and they wanted to know where I was working but I refused to tell them as they would have slapped it on the board even though the job had NOTHING to do with what I studied there(labour job!).  The name of the company would have been impressive enough to fool an excited, naive new entrant to the private school so I declined.  Even their ads are all creative and tricky word play set to fool certain groups of people.  They try to pose as substitutes for traditional brick and mortar public Universities and Colleges but they are not even in the same league.  When I enrolled, I was depressed, confused and irrational(one of the groups they target)  I had no idea that such places could exist and I stupidly figured that not just anybody could call themselves a college or university(man was I wrong).  I had no idea of the IMPORTANT and CRITICAL difference between public and private institutions. 


So I enrolled due to the promises of a "FAST-TRACK" to SUCCESS and a NEW CAREER in 6-12 MONTHS.....all word play with NO substance.  Almost anyone can enroll and the "admissions test" they give is all smoke and mirrors to give the illusion of standards......basically, everyone passes it.  The course material was a joke and at an early high school level at that.  This was NOT the post-secondary material I was expecting?!  The lies about recruiters visiting the school, high paying jobs waiting for us upon graduation, job placement assistance blah blah blah.....they were all false.....just the things that were supposed to make these skoolz different from the public ones everyone else seems to go to.   I applied for well over 300 business related jobs and got not a single call.  I have since removed the place from my resume.  It was even hard trying to get my resume from them as they claimed I still needed to complete some ridiculous module that I did in fact complete.  I avoided the graduation completely as I was certainly not proud of the fact that I completed the program(lame, weak and most of the tests were OPEN BOOK?!)It was more or less a secretary training program hidden by big business words and advertising.  All of the people who respond and try to act as if these places are worth going to simply work for the skool(I am misspelling it on purpose!) or are trying to justify their decision to go there.  Just try and find a good job or even someone who will let you volunteer your services at their company to gain experince......I doubt you will be successful.....BUT, these places still exist and they gain a new lease on life with their every three year name changes....AVOID! 

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