The Chubb Institute Career placement department is a JOKE. Rip-off! Cherry Hill/Parsippany, New Jersey

I attended the Chubb Institute in Cherry Hill, NJ. Their career-placement center was an all-around JOKE. I first must say that the educators were all above-average and some were better than I had in university. But the woman who ran the career placement center was ridiculous. This big-haired Jersey girl got me a crappy TEMP job at a Compaq WAREHOUSE putting computers into boxes with high-school drop-outs. When I told the temp agency that I would not be returning, the career placement woman called me and told me that I basically had to take any opportunity offered to me and that I was lucky to get in on the ground floor at Compaq. Here I was, with a BA and a certificate for networking (which I realize now doesn't mean anything in the real world... especially from a second-rate for-profit "school" like Chubb) and I was working in a warehouse. And this woman from Chubb actually told me she was doing me a favor by getting me this position and implied that by rejecting it I was jeopardizing her standing with the temp agency. PUH-LEEZE. I couldn't give two @#$% about her OR the "school". I then realized that I had been DUPED and that all she wanted to do was boost her placement numbers so that they can advertise a high placement percentage. I wonder how many more of the people the career department "placed" were working at Wal-Mart type jobs. Chubb was probably the biggest rip-off of my life and I'll be paying for it for a long time.

I know from experience of attending a trade school with so called "placement guarantees" that the only thing these schools do are nothing more than what the student can do themselves, read the newspaper and use temp agencies. As far as the education they provide, yes it is cheaper compared to a larger university, and that is exactly what employers look at, spend the money for a higher education, it pays off in the end. I am now attending Davenport University, and we have instructors at my school that work in corporations that it is their company way to throw trade school resumes in the trash!! Yes, i pay more for my education now but nothing beats the backing of a larger university on your resume. Sorry you had such a bad experience.