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I'm curious, what was the job that required this certification? Why would the employer require her to take this useless course?

• electromagnetic 18y ago
  Its to become a paralegal. All employers in Ontario require you to go through the process, but from what we've asked people the first year is completely and utterly useless (thank the ontario government!) and the second year is break-your-back hard because you basically have to learn everything in one year. This whole thing is caused by the government allowing all forms of office administration (Medical, Legal, Realty, etc.) to group their first year together. This means everyone who takes any of these courses has to pay thousands of dollars and the colleges group multiple courses into one to save money. The ironic thing is that legal offices are desperate for workers, my wife already has a job offer from one of our family friend's place. The starting wage there for a paralegal is like $70,000 because they have such a shortage. edit: Basically the course isn't useless, it's just the ontario government allows colleges to rip you off in the first year. This is after the government of Canada allowed the Teachers Union to get so much control they control everything they even have their own credit union, plus if you work in any college or university in ontario your children get everything (except books) for free, kindly paid for by everyone else.