Okay, I read a bunch of stuff on their website, and spoke to a woman at the center who was really…read morevery nice. But once I see stuff like "Where is God in your job search" on a website I back away. Well, nowhere, thanks. No faith based orgs. need apply.

I highly recommend this organization! In fact, I will tell anyone about Career Transition Center…read more(CTC) that will listen to me! I have utilized the services of this great organizations several times over the past few years after my lay-offs. In fact, CTC, was the first place I reached out to! Between the programs, presentations and the job coach, it made a big difference in my search and in finding my ideal position.

The services provided are helpful. The staff appears to care about their clients but the process is…read morelong and drawn out. Would be nice if services provided were based on services need by clients not a one service for all.

Their customer service is awesome. They really helped me to stretch my money. I didn't have to pay…read moreexcessive tax preparation fees.They give me support every step of the way. The tax preparation service uses experience tax pros for your tax return. You really have nothing to worry about.

I just wanted to make clear, you do NOT have to be a CPA or a lawyer to volunteer here at all. I…read moream a regular person. They have training for regular people to learn how to prepare people's taxes using software that does most of the work for you. You do have to study a little and be detail oriented but that's it. Plus they are usually looking for a data entry volunteer in their downtown office it seems. Also at the tax sites they have other positions. They even have a mobile tax thing now where they go to underserved communities on set days and hours. Lots of ways to help. Basically if you agree with their mission and philosophy that low income people should have access to non-scam tax preparation, and non-scam financial education/info, then check them out.

I wouldn't recommend this organization to anyone. They have discriminative application protocol for…read morechildren with disabilities. I had a very poor experience and still very disappointed and disgusted with the entire organization.

I was part of the program and had a great experience with my big so why is my daughter…read morediscriminated for being denied I was on speaker with the "interviewer" applied again and still no response I don't even want to waste my time with my other daughter it's funny my son was not accepted in the program though.

Been fighting myself either to take a CNA class or just take my nclex exam but taking the CNA class…read morewith our very humble Clinical Instructor Ms Candice has been the best decision I made in my nursing career. She's an experienced nurse and doesn't hesitate to share the good and bad side to mold us in this career. She teaches so much more than the text book and thats what makes her so unique.She also teaches us in a way that makes it easy to understand the material. I have gained so much knowledge within this short period of time. I'll definitely recommend the school and all. Thank you Ms Candice

I went through this top notch program a few years ago when my Dad suffered a debilitating stroke…read more Completely prepared me for the home health environment. Their holistic approach equips you with the know how as well enabling you with the professional compasion to provide exemplary patient care. Their program gave me the credentials needed to land a great job at a physical rehabilitation hospital even though I lacked clinical experience. The program also gave me a complete foundation to build toward an RN-BSN. I would highly recommend the program at Career Training Center of Chicago. It's afforadble - with flexible payment options. It's a concise, concentrated program that will get you quickly into the medical field. It's in depth, high quality, and comprehensive which will put you a cut above other CNAs. And it provides a great foundation to build from if you wish to pursue nursing or other allied health fields. They easily earn 5 stars.

Great school great teachers. They help with job placement and make sure you're set for success!read more

So I waited over 1 year before reviewing Symbol Job training school…read more I have to say it was a really great place to learn an excellent foundation for the machinist industry. Paul was my shop teacher and he explained everything very well and I currently use it all on my job. I also like how they taught us a few side notes about finding the right job where you can learn and grow as a machinist. To date I am on my 4th job and here is why: 1st job was just an operator and they taught us to get into a place where you can learn instead of just making the same parts all day. The pay at $14/hour was OK so it was tempting to keep it but I'm glad I upgraded after 3 weeks. 2nd job was working on HAAS mills for $16/hour which is exactly what we learned on at Symbol so it was easy but I found it a little too easy. Just mass production and I also bought a house 1.5 hours away so I needed to change again after 4 months. 3rd job was where I really learned a lot. It was a small "Job Shop" with about 7 employees and we made very different parts all the time with tight tolerances. I made $15/hour here. We also had HAAS machines and used 4th axis turrets in them. They saw that I was a fast learner and I was ambitious to start learning Mastercam Programming and I got a good foundation in programming from that. Just like the instructors said, get the right job where you can learn. They got slow on work so I was laid off along with some others so I was only there for about 7 months. 4th job making $18/hour is setting up 5 axis machines making and mostly editing Mastercam programs to make adjustments in part dimensions although I need to take some of the online classes Mastercam offers for 5 Axis programming which is only $250/class but I want to push myself anyway. I see myself here for a while as it's an excellent skill to have with Mastercam AND 5 axis machines. Overall I got a much better foundation from Symbol than many of the other coworkers who either went to a different school or learned on the job. Obviously there is always more to learn and I don't know everything but Symbol got me started. Well worth the money. Get the right job where you can grow your skills and never stop learning.

Love this education & what it provides for people. I participated back in Aug of 2000. My life has…read morenot been the same since only because of what I discovered about myself in who I was being, when faced with many situations in my life. This education provided me with tools that if I chose to implement them in my life, I could unconceal my blind spots! We all have them. Boy, did I ever.. the beauty is discovering distinctions of being.. by that I mean .. I cannot change Any circumstance in my life.. and I can & do have a say in the matter of who I will choose to BE about it.. that gift alone is so empowering .. to know I have a say.. I can choose to express in my being and that allows for actions I can & do take to have any circumstance manageable as a human being. Communication is key & you too if you are committed to it can also experience how to elicit the best out of others.. that has been such a gift as all we all want is to have the best of relationship with others & with ourselves.. Being able to create a loving & harmonious relationship with my best friend & husband, that even though he has ALS, to empower himself & we together our relationship, to be our best selves daily.. to be alive right now, to enjoy each moment vs allowing the fear of this disease to dominate our lives so far, has been the biggest result of being a full graduate of this education!! So if you want to learn how to be your best self , I encourage you & everyone you know, to take this on. If everyone on our planet used the tools of this education, I can assure you, we could all experience our world from a wonderful view .. it would be so great for everyone.. nothing will change any circumstance .. yet you can alter your viewpoint & experience joy, love, gratitude, peace, just to mention a few things we humans desire in life.

The two stars is for our experience with the Landmark Worldwide Feedback Form. Not to the Landmark…read moreForum. The first part of this is the original message we were trying to send through the Landmark Worldwide feedback form. The part after that is about not being able to get our message through on the Landmark feedback form, or not knowing it went through. Could someone please forward this important feedback below regarding North American Masterclasses, to the right people, as we were't able to get it through on the feedback form, or don't know what went through, or if it went through clearly? -- Original Message: This feedback is for the people accountable for the Chicago Masterclasses, New York Masterclasses, Los Angeles Masterclasses, and the person accountable for the overall schedule for Masterclasses. Or anyone who has the ability to make a difference with this. It is a big suggestion. But could make a big difference. Would it be possible to stagger the North American Masterclasses? Right now, the way it's been in North America is that the North American Masterclasses all start and end around similar times. So... There is always about a month, (3-7 weeks) at a time where there is no Masterclass at all running in North America. Meaning, there is a around a month were there is no Masterclass session you can be attending. Yes, there are regular seminars you can be in. But it is not the same. Especially, for those of us who have been in the work for a long time and many of us who have even been in leadership roles. Please consider that a month is a long time, especially in the world we are living in today, where it is more important than ever to have something like the unique structure of a weekly or so Masterclass to keep these conversations alive. And even if you look at some of the other Masterclasses in other areas of the world, this gap exists. And also the time difference makes it hard for us in North America to fill in with a Masterclass from say India or Australia or something. Or even sometimes the UK. Would it be possible to have a North American Masterclass that runs along a similar schedule as the Indian or Australian Masterclass. The problem is the North American Masterclasses then all sort of start up again around similar times and end around similar times, with some slight variation. So there's been just this big gap where there are no Masterclass sessions at all in North America, and then all the sessions return all at once, and it's all at once back again. It make sense on many levels why it might need to be this way. And that each center would want to keep their participants with them rather than risking them taking a Masterclass seminar at another center that might start up and run while they are on break. And a true stagger could make a big difference for those of us who would choose to keep going with a weekly or so Masterclass structure in and have then overlap, in a way that would allow for so many of us to have Masterclass participation to be consistent and ongoing. And it would still allow those who wanted a break in between to have a break, as there is usually a break between the end and the new beginning of a masterclass at each center. And yes we could always do a single course in between, or repeat the forum, and try to get by in the regular seminars. But the Masterclass offering is not the same. It is a unique more practical consistent and sourceful structure. And right now there is an opportunity being missed. And there is a repeated offering gap. because all the Masterclasses in North America choose to start and end around the same time. Does anyone reading this have the power to make a difference with this? Again, a big suggestion. But it could make a big difference. -- Spent a good chunk of time trying to get this through on the Landmark feedback form. Wanted to get it there straight to the source. Kept getting error after error. And we were told to send feedback there and that it could be anonymous. Sent it anonymously as we wanted to pass on the feedback without being contacted. We simply tried putting an email we don't use that often or noreply in the email form, so that we could get it in the suggestion box, so to speak, to the right people. Why did we have to try different approaches and send it in more than once? Well, first it wouldn't let us send the whole message through, so we tried oh so many times to send it through a section at a time. And got error messages after error message. Is it because we were sending more than one message, or more than one from the same email, or because there was the same topic heading in each. Tried changing topic and email etc. Still just got errors. we still don't know if it went through. Or went through repeatedly, or out of order. Even spent a bunch of time condensing to one message that was less clear. still got errors. Don't know if it went through but this feedback was really important.

someone please tell me a story of how Michelle Obama helped you to get a good volunteering job…read more Please help me with my report on Michelle Obama, and if you don't have a story how she helped you please tell me how they helped someone else/you.

I had a really bad experience with Public Allies Chicago. I applied before the deadline and kept a…read moresteady watch on my application status for the several months that followed. To my disappointment, my application was never even looked at. I kept track of the program's progress by looking at the Public Allies Chicago Facebook page. After a while I was sure I had not been admitted, and no wonder, because my application had never been reviewed or considered. Having spent many hours writing essays and attaining references, I was unhappy that my time had been wasted. I hoped I at least could reapply for the following year, but I logged in one day to find my whole application had been wiped. I had never even received a rejection letter. I sent a disappointed email to Public Allies (after several tries, since the email addresses I found were all defunct). I simply said that I was disappointed about how little respect Public Allies had for its applicants' time, and that I didn't understand why it couldn't at least send out automated email rejection letters. I didn't hear anything and didn't expect to, until out of the blue I noticed that someone from Public Allies had looked at my LinkedIn profile. Then I got a call from Darlene Oliver, the Executive Director. She said they had some positions that had opened up, and they'd like to consider me. I went downtown for an interview (which ended up being a group interview--I was not forewarned). When I asked what kinds of positions they had available, none was suited to me whatsoever. Then Darlene kept me afterward and basically yelled at me for daring to criticize the program. She claimed they had reviewed my application, but when prompted, she could only come up with information from my LinkedIn profile. I left certain that she'd just called me downtown to give me a hard time. A while later, I got the canned rejection letter I had requested. So I guess they'd listened to me on that account. However, I couldn't believe how unprofessional Public Allies Chicago was. They have an applicant pool of people willing to do philanthropic work for a meager living stipend, and yet they treat us with no gratitude or respect, and in my case went out of their ways to give me a hard time. It's pretty sad for an organization that claims to have the mission they have.