Augusto Marzano

Review of Sida Group Srl

BAD, NOT RECOMMENDED

BAD, NOT RECOMMENDED

The executive masters they propose are nothing more than overpaid basic courses disguised as "job opportunities", "opportunities for professional growth", "advanced training". The reality immediately appears different:

1) They accept anyone, as long as they are willing to pay and the "entrance test" they do has no selective purpose, but only cognitive ones.

2) The lessons are truly SIMPLE and add little to the cultural background of an average university student. Not to mention the fact that they also accept graduates and this is already a clue about the recognition of these courses which I will tell you more about later.

3) The worst thing is the much vaunted "internship" that is presented as the winning opportunity of their courses and instead turns out to be quite the opposite: when you are put in contact with the placement service, it turns out that you CANNOT choose which ones companies send CVs, you CANNOT choose the job you would like to perform (they tell you that it is difficult to find an internship only in that sector and that if you want to do what you like, you must accept the risk that they will not find the company that does to your case and therefore lose the money for the service), you CANNOT choose the region in which to do it (penalty: you assume the risk that they will not find a company to send you), you CANNOT withdraw (penalty: you lose the money) refuse a company that they propose to you (or rather, you can do it only if for reasons of force majeure you cannot accept that job, penalty: exclusion from the placement), it is NOT always paid (the few who have seen dj internship proposals, have found having to choose whether to accept f use it for free or give up and lose the placement service because free is not one of the reasons for refusal that they consider acceptable).

4) In practice, they ask you what you would like to do and they tell you about an internship that exactly reflects your interests, but in fact, you find yourself having to choose between an internship where it happens, in the sector that you have identified as fourth or fifth choice, free most of the time, in the job you don't like, or refuse and lose the 600 euros of the placement service.

5) But there is more: executive masters ARE NOT RECOGNIZED BY ANYONE either in Italy or abroad. They are simple courses for which they issue a certificate. They do not score and do not constitute an additional qualification.
In my personal experience (sadly shared by the rest of my class in Bari) I wanted to work in a bank. They told me that they had many affiliated banks and they would secure me an internship in that sector. In the end they told me that the banking sector is small and therefore they would consider other sectors as well. In the end, I didn't have any proposals and they didn't even give me back a cent.

6) And speaking of money: each student pays a different amount. They ask you when you can spend and make you a price appropriate to your possibilities.

Need more to advise against it?
Ah yes, last thing: the course was supposed to start in May 2018 and instead it started in September (obviously they made me sign the contract first in order to bind me)