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Apprenticeship? Any role I looked at there had significant requirements. "Must have intermediate knowledge of Swift" etc etc. That's not how apprenticeships w
by anjc 11y ago
Apprenticeship?
Any role I looked at there had significant requirements. "Must have intermediate knowledge of Swift" etc etc.
That's not how apprenticeships work. If anything, this is a far worse version of an internship given that some of them are measuring the tenure in weeks.
Edit: Hah. "Our apprenticeship is not a junior role. The majority of people who join thoughtbot as an apprentice leave a job working as a developer or designer to join us. Because it is such a high bar, even people who have been working in the industry for many years may not make it through the interview process."
Insane. You've somehow managed to find a way to destroy the value of employment even further.
- paulojreis 11y ago> Insane. You've somehow managed to find a way to destroy the value of employment even further. The value of "work", I would say. But yeah, corporatism is insanely good at it, and worst of all, in a subversive way. The society (through education and others) is being silently shaped by corporatism tenets so that, by now, even grassroot-like movements - not at all affiliated with the major "interests" - live by these ideals.
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- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoExactly an apprenticeship should be a minimum of 4 years and either do day release or block. And as some one who actually came into work (R&D based on campus at Cranfield) via the vocational route as a whats now called professional or higher apprenticeship. Back in the day if you had called us "apprentices" I and my pears woudl have told you to F%^K off.
- chrisseaton 11y agoWhat were you called back then if not apprentices?
- walshemj 11y agoTechnicians the associate professions between craft and University. Most of us where in the civil service hierarchy in terms of actual job title. Research Assistants , Assistant Scientific Offices Scientific Officers.
- ritetag 11y agoNot insane. For our unpaid mobile iOS development internship, we only consider applicants who can show what they've built with Ob-C and Swift. Some balk, but with 3.5 years of experience, we know how much we give back - and what we can expect of our interns.
- anjc 11y agoUh, you're now using the word 'internship' when your ad specifically used the word 'apprenticeship'. And the HN submission is "Apprenticeships, not internships". If you have requirements for your role, then that's ok. But then it isn't an apprenticeship, it's an internship, and it's no different to all the other internships out there.