Weareams Reviews

What a disappointment

I completed a course with this company from October 2023 January 2024 in Digital Marketing and wish I hadn t as I was fed a bunch of lies At the outset AMS promised a guaranteed interview upon completion of the course from one of the 100s of companies in their portfolio They assured me I would receive support to help me find work and secure an interview with a company in my area I had informed them of the area that I live in being the north west and they had said this was fine and they could find work here I finished the course in the first week of January 2024 and was optimistic for the help I would receive but was unprepared for the dire service I was going to experience AMS Talent Lab Support consists of 3 things 1 A series of webinars that range from completely basic e g learn how to write a CV to completely useless e g a webinar by a particular company talking about upcoming positions they have in topics that you likely haven t studied located in areas in which you don t live I attended a couple of the webinars but they were that pathetic I didn t attend anymore One of them was centred around the term networking and asked us all to choose an answer from a multiple-choice list of what it meant One of the answers was a spider who makes a web What age group are these webinars directed at I was told that unfortunately they re a one size fits all and not suitable for everyone 2 A weekly newsletter The newsletter goes out on a Friday and covers all cohorts and all subjects taught It features a list of available opportunities usually grouped by region And it lists a handful of websites to search for work This newsletter was consistently useless It rarely featured ANY jobs within my region and when it did none of them were in the subject I d studied I raised this issue several times and was told we have more vacancies coming up soon keep your eye on the newsletter it will get better It never did it was a lie no one cared And the list of websites they provided were pitiful Several of them didn t even let me search the NW region for work there was simply no option to do so and a handful were for minority groups and people with learning disabilities When I asked for any other resources no one ever provided me with any 3 A fortnightly phone-call to ask how things are going My first job coach was a young girl in her early to mid-twenties who was clueless of how to help She couldn t think of anywhere to look for roles and gave me poor advice about my CV confirmed by the national careers service when I showed them When I mentioned about there being a lack of jobs around she would just tell me it was early days this went on and on She then went off work on long-term leave and I was given a guy in place of her again in his mid-twenties who was even more clueless He told me on several occasions that he was going to personally reach out to some of his contacts in my area and get back to me about positions but he never bothered All he could suggest was for me to arrange a skype session with a careers advisor from Open Classrooms who had taught us the Digital Marketing course I did this and surprise surprise she was equally useless In fact during the meeting she informed me that really speaking Digital Marketing is for youngsters who like social media Huh She advised me to reach out to companies on LinkedIn asking for work which I did and it went nowhere A week later she linked me to a job for a Business Analyst requiring business analysis experience What did that have to do with Digital Marketing When I told the job coach at AMS he told me that she just had my best intentions at heart What by finding me a job that I don t have the experience for The fortnightly phone-calls stopped after 7 weeks or so and I never heard another thing from AMS Talent Lab I have been left to it there was no interview upon completion of the course and there has been little to no support from them The bootcamp was a waste of time that will ultimately lead nowhere Do yourself a favour and AVOID AMS Talent Lab at all costs What they promise you they simply don t deliver I know of several other students in the same boat