no kidding

Their medical program isn't any better.

RE 'Well, my mentor hardly knew what he was talking about.'

I knew I was in trouble after I'd signed up and some of what my mentor was saying didn't seem to make sense with regard to the subject and the market / what I was hearing from those outside of TechSkills and finding online, vs what the mentor was suggesting. Each time I pressed for back-up to the info, it was suggested to me that maybe I wasn't really ready to study with them and perhaps I should talk to the director. Of course if I'd cxld I wouldn't have recvd a full refund and in the end I stayed. But the mentor, more often than not, dismissed what I asked as to be addressed at a later time or not important to passing and getting a job in the field. I spent a lot of time backing up, verifying and using outside sources in the industry to get the information I'd paid to be instructed on by TechSkills. In fact, what suggestions the mentor did offer, a simple search on the web proved contradictory to what the experts in the respective fields recommended.

I'm pretty good at doing things on my own, but what really got to me and drove me up the wall was getting emails and voice mails (most of which I've saved) asking me to re-send info misplaced or lost, or to call to remind the mentor of something, or to make an appointment in order to set something up...and then when I followed-up, I was represented as requesting the activity or demanding the attention over the mentor's students rather than responding to the mentor's request. In addition to defending my actions/follow-ups as at the mentor's request, I always wanted to remind the mentor that I was also one of the mentor's 'students' and am in debt thousands for that poor choice. It should go without saying that the occassions calls or requests were initiated by me, the return email would simply overlook the subject matter questions, or I'd be asked to get back to the mentor when they had more time (leading into another of the previously described senerio) etc.

I did complete the program, but am choosing to back it up with other courses and will not list TechSkills on my resume or use them in my job search for positions in this field, as the many miscommunications and confused responses of the mentor, while I was there, left me with less than no faith that any verification calls that might be handled by this mentor would be handled well or knowledgably or, that said, professionally. On my own and with direction from outside sources, I finished with an A by the way.

I would not recommend TechSkills so long as things stay as they are. When you pay or go into debt thousands and commit months of your life to something, you expect to get more than a stack of books and written worksheets and tests (the equiv of which I've found for free on the web through different sources, and the web-based lectures equiv in the form of seminars/recorded lectures on their own for the cost of just the lectures etc).