HuffPost: Everest College in Atlanta Placed Graduates Like Eric Parms into Fake Jobs

Everest College, which has a campus at 2841 Greenbriar Parkway, is in hot water after one of its Atlanta students, Eric Parms, reported that he was given a fake job upon graduation as part of a strategy to keep the schools job placement numbers high.

According to a Huffington Post article which has now been seen my thousands, "(after) graduating with straight As and $17,000 in student debt, career services set him up with a temporary contract position laying electrical wires. After less than two months, he and several other Everest graduates also working on the job were laid off and denied further help finding work."

Unfortunately Parms learned that the only reason he and other graduates had that job was because the school had paid the company to hire them.  "The college had paid his contractor $2,000 to hire him and keep him on for at least 30 days, part of an effort to boost its official job placement records, according to documents obtained by The Huffington Post. The college paid more than a dozen other companies to hire graduates into temporary jobs before cutting them loose, a HuffPost investigation has found."

Because the school is right in our backyard and many people are looking to go back to school for new or improved skills in this down economy, Cascade Patch urges readers to follow the link to the full story or video on Huffington Post.  If these practices are indeed continuing to occur, potential students must weigh their options before paying for an education that pays companies to just briefly hire them upon graduation, for the sole sake of their job placement stats.

Full Huffington Post Article

What Are Your Experiences or Thoughts on Everest College and the Practice of Paying Companies to Place Graduates for Short-Term Employment?