Currentemployee
Alpha,#2UPDATE Employee
Tue, February 26, 2008
Dear Sir or Madam, I want to first appologize for the lack of assistance you recieved from the Parsippany campus. I'm not sure when you attended Chubb in Parsippany, but I can offer you assistance. Why contact was severed, I don't know (honestly, I wish I had solid answers for you). What I can offer is this - placement assistance with Chubb is 'Lifetime'. We can assist you in creating/revamping your resume, helping you with interview skills, and whatever assistance you need (including of course helping you with looking for another position). Do I have an explanation as to why things happend the way they happened? No. But I do know this - if you are willing, please give us a call at your convenience, and we will assist you. What happened in the past was of course unprofessional, however it doesn't have to remain that way. I hope you take me up on this offer, because again I feel as though in order for us as a school to do deliver on our promises, we must right any wrongs, learn from the mistakes we made in the past, and move on. Seeing you are located in King of Prussia, you can get assistance from either our Springfield campus, or of course this campus in Parsippany. I do hope this information is helpful.
Kongo
Greenbelt,#3Author of original report
Fri, December 14, 2007
As for the instructors, it was hit-and-miss. One was good and laid back, making the material easy to comprehend. He was definitely a veteran in his field, and everyone liked him. One woman, whom no one liked, had too much "sista" attitude. As it turns out, she herself was a Chubb graduate from the same campus. Apparently she plied her skills out there before Chubb thought she would be an ideal candidate to teach after another instructor left. Her biggest problem was that she never talked to us like adults, rather like a schoolmarm berating students. She claimed she treated us as such because she wanted us to do well, saying that what she did was nothing compared to what would happen in the real world if we were to make the slightest snafu. Another instructor, also a person with many years of experience, was way too gruff. He put some students under a lot of pressure with his somewhat loud and drill sergeant attitude. If you don't like class participation, it's forced out of you. Chubb makes you to take a VERY active role in your learning, meaning you get grilled on an almost daily basis. Again, the idea is that when you are out there, you MUST know the correct procedures on the spot without asking someone else or consulting a manual. After all, your time is company time, so time lost in errors or trying to figure out something reflects on you and CHUBB, right? Yeah, whatever. I never even got that far. None of my jobs post-Chubb had anything to do with the school or their curriculum or the legitimate computer field. It was negligible at best, as if I never even went there in the first place. Over the years NONE of the human resources people in the companies I've applied to, regardless of the position, ever specifically pointed out my Chubb background. Were they even familiar with the school or did they only know it as the insurance company? It tells you how exaggerated Chubb feels about itself. It's like no one knows what The Chubb Institute is outside NJ/NY/PA and a few other locales. I never had a moment where I was told, "While you applied for this position we noticed you are a Chubb graduate and we feel this position will be more to your liking and up you alley." That didn't happen then, and "almost" 20 years later, it still hasn't happened.