The food is never good I'm in there have been for5 weeks now there is no wifi you get taxes taken out of 25$ that's wrong and they took the pop Michigan out of lunch room and put in watered down gatorad. I don't want to go back to day but I have to go back they dead the fens is to keep peppol out but you get in trouble for going near it
And it is not what you make it any more it's how the staff makes it sry about my spelling
If I could give no stars I would , don't bring your kids here . Your better off getting your high school some where else. Horrorible staff
My experience here at jobcorps was fantastic! Great learning opportunity and you have a chance to gain upward mobility in the career of your choice. Anyone looking to find employment through the trade center Jobcorps is a great environment with many benefits to support you as you go.
When I was first in attendance the population was smaller and therefore less cramped for space, food, time waiting in lines etc. Security has also been steadily becoming heavier and heavier on campus making the place feel less like a trade school and more like a prison. I was on the older side of the age limit to be in attendance and felt a lil isolated because of that but nothing to cry about. All in all it was a pretty decent experience but the cafeteria needs to work on their sanitation skills. I wouldn't say I hated my time there but it wasnt that enjoyable either. Which is kinda sad because the place has the potential to be pretty great if they would stop treating children like criminals and actually attempt to teach them.
Comfortable atmosphere, respectful students, caring staff. Great place to work!
This place is lit asf if you find positive people , your time here will be awesome, some staff really care about the students people with negative reviews are the same people who are disrespectful Nd always in drama . DONT GET INTO ANY RELATIONSHIP HERE ! A lot of std on campus.
The staff is very judgemental and needs to work on teamwork
Similar to jail....only differnce you don't get shot when escaping
I am a recent graduate from Clearfield Job Corps in Utah. This has been 22 years ago since I had graduated. At the time when I had went to Job Corps. I absolutely enjoyed it. It was a very good experience. As long as you stay away from troublemakers and people with drama. You will not have any problem here. I am not sure about how this facility operates now since it had been over 20 years ago since I have attended. They have helped me tremendously and I obtained employment after I left Job Corps. While attending Job Corps I was promoted to a supervisor of a sales company. I attended Job Corps while working there and I was able to save an extremely good amount of money before leaving. Though I have heard a lot of bad things from this particular campus. I have spoke to some of the teachers there and I have been advised that the staff there need a lot more training as well need to grow up. This had came from a particular teacher that was teaching at Job Corps in Guthrie. As with anything. Improvement comes with time. I believe Job Corps as a whole. It is what you make of it. I have seen students go to jail because they wanted to have drugs on campus. I've seen a few go to jail because they sold cigarettes. I believe it is a good opportnunity going to Job Corps. I personally am reluctant on sending my son to the Guthrie Job Corps facility because of the feedback I have received. I have tried contacting the recruiter for 2 weeks now. I yet have recieved any follow up calls.
I am currently a district sales manager for a large industrial hydraulic company. Job corps helped a lot. I graduated retail sales. Generally the programs that are basic skills. U will need to be advanced further education. They teach you the basics. I would highly recomend advanced training after graduating. Unless you want to get out making 13 an hr. Then again. It all depends on the work put into it. I stayed in my dorm and did school work instead of being social and trying to be in the incrowd. This program is what you put into it!!
Guthrie Job Corps is a place where students or attendants connot feel safe to learn. Too many fights. Too many drugs. Earlier today, my friend was unable to be released and visit his family because a student had smoke weed inside a wing. The whole wing which consists of about 50 is now in trouble. There are many ways to deal with this type os situation instead of holding 50 people from their families.
Been here since July 2018. The trades themselves so far are nice. You learn from some great instructors and you can get far if you do work for it. That being said, living on campus is terrible. The staff (residential advisors or RAs) do not care about the students here and will be petty the minute you challenge their authority. Two of the dorms on campus have shared restrooms and house some of the most disgusting students and neglectful staff (so much so that some dorms have what's called "hygiene rooms" that are absolutely unbearable to live in, with rules that are not enforced by staff, and the living conditions of these rooms have caused trainees to self-terminate). The staff constantly preaches about being a drug free campus but you can walk around and smell weed at least twice a day. The Campus Police here don't do anything for students and are very unorganized. Couple this with having to sign a waiver that says if you die here, the campus takes no responsibility and refusing to sign it gets you kicked out. The disciplinary system they have here is absolutely ridiculous. Some trainees can cause fights, get caught with drugs, threaten others with razorblades, and brandish knives at security (and manage to convince the buffoonish staff there was no malicious intent), yet nothing is done. While not making your bed properly in the morning can get you a write up. Five write ups and you're kicked out. Well, you SHOULD be. But I've talked to students with six, seven, even eleven write ups and they're still here. You pretty much have to get completely violent with someone to get terminated.
To counter all of the negativity on campus, they've recently started a Guided Group Interaction (GGI) program here after each day. Its purpose is to bring "positivity" and "form bonds" to create an environment of positivity and to bring people together. Take it from me, someone who is forced to do it (threatened with write-ups if you don't attend) three out of five days a week. It's really more like a meeting with Alcoholics Anonymous that takes people away from their trade work or school work for almost an hour and wastes everybody's time talking about their daily accomplishments, however bringing up issues with other trainees, with policy, or a problematic staff member is discouraged and with some groups, outright not allowed. It's pretty sad when even the majority of the staff here tells students it's useless. Perhaps one of the biggest issues is they grade you on your level of positivity, and too low of a score can get you restricted from certain activities. I do not appreciate being taken from my work to spend 50 minutes at a pointless meeting and get threatened with disciplinary action for not acting positive to their standards.
If you can, do everything in your power to NOT live on campus. The free education is great but be prepared to deal with a lot of idiotic staff and illogical rules if you plan to live here.
P.S. As I type this section, I'm suffering from food poisoning, as well as a few others since the last thing we ate was the dinner they serve here. You hear about people getting food poisoning a couple times a month, which is ridiculous.
I attended Jobcorps from early 2012 til mid 2013. I do think Jobcorps is a very good opportunity for one to get on there feet, or for a head start in life. Since it's mostly for younger adults, I think a person has to have their priorities straight, remember what they came to there for, and don't get caught up in the unnecessary mess that causes trouble. You definitely have to have a mature frame of mind to survive thru Jobcorps. That's my opinion.
Great Center and anyone 16-24 can go here if the meet the criteria for Free Look it up. Great place to learn a trade and get a High School Diploma...
I have attened to the North Texas Job Corp in McKinney Texas about almost three years ago. I know you may not be able to read this but all the job corps are the same. There are work members there who really don't care. The main thing they are trying to teach you is to BECOME independent and to not rely on anyone else. If its that bad then you need to contact the better business burue. My school is shut down and was 3 times. The new center directors are more strict and they will be. The stricter the better. Although I do miss my first director. I mean she may have embezzeled, but she was very good to me. You think Guthrie is bad, I don't know if you can go to NTJC but, they were so bad there I wanted to leave so bad but I put my big girl pants on and went through it. I'm thinking about going to this one for Job Training. All I got is my high school diploma and that's still not enough. :/
Job Corps is not for losers who join or are sent there by the courts to get away from their problem. They just bring their problem with them. I join JCP to better myself. I earn my GED, driver s license and I got the opportunity to attend college. Today I am employed by an Engineering company in Houston TX as an AutoCAD technician. If you are in JCP don't give up don't be a loser. I saw them come and go. Good Luck and hang in there.
Gilbert Montemayor.
I have attended Job Corp Center this year, I could tell you now, even the SOME of the staff here are untrustworthy. Here my point of view, I've completed my trade which afterwards you are expected to get a job, well as soon as you have set up interviews, no matter what your CTS is responsible for taking you. The issues here is that I recently canceled about 7 interviews because of the excuses mine have been giving me, so I went to a higher person to find out the reason they are not really helping me out do to the fact that I will be laeving to Asia in about August. I still wanted a job, of course I am going half the world away so I wanted to leave as soon as possible to plan ahead. While I was confused I went to the Counseling boss, and even she said reason number 1 was that she believe I wont keep the job, number 2 she think I am leaving because relationship reasons, number 3 she thinks I am applying at position that I am not applicable or qualify for. Honestly, That's ridiculous, only because they simply cannot respect me enough to take me to the interview that will be my decision. So just be careful and know your part when you're here, you are on your own. Goodluck to those going to attend here.
I've been here for almost 3 months I'll be certified in one month and have my high school diploma. Yes, this place kinda has no freedom but it's not as bad as everyone says. Coming from a 17 year old turning 18 next month and has had no rules most of her life, you really can't complain about how it is here. ITS FREE.
If you have any other option, take it. Job Corps is mismanaged, terrible, and the administrators pick and choose when thsu want to enforce the rules. I came to Job Corps, and now they're going to force me to complete with no place to stay.
What are the best place up helping young people nation wide
i was part of the first class to graduaren there in january 2000. i absolutely loved it there! the staff was wonderful! i always wish i could go back and relive my entire experience there!
It's a great way to learn new skills and experience life as a young Adult with responsibilities!!! I'm a independent contractor thanks to G.J.C Carpentry Class
I had such a great experience with a lady named Jazz she helped me find exactly what I needed thankyou very much
My son graduated at jc. Obtained his GED and a trade. One proud momma
Job Corps is really cool, My name is Cora Melson & theres alot of cool things here! You get to meet new people, make new friends, get trades like (Security, Culinary, Health Care, Welding, Computer Tech, Plumbing, & Electricity. There are 4 dorms here, a cafeteria, Wellness, Gym, BasketBall courts outside, Smoking Gazebo's~NO minors tho, and a art room. There are few other buildings but you will learn them when you come here. Gonna admit theres a bit of drama but just ignore it. ^~^ hopefully all this helps! Welcome to Job corps if you come! Oh! Btw so you dont get into trouble, do not color your hair. It has to be natural colors. Unlike what I used to have!
Focus on what your there for and you will accomplish your goals
Loose focus lost goals. You make job corp don't let it make you. You choose ur friends don't let the choose you. Its all up to you. No matter how bad the staff is. This gets u ready to be out on ur own, for those kids who don't wish to stay with family.
This place sucks very unprofessional pretty much everything they tell you is a lie goodluck if you do attend
Have an open mind they THE staff have lives also along WITH TRYING TO Assist young some stubborn adults get back on RIGHT track! Never too old or young to learn something but hard to pass on knowledge to those who believe they know it ALL!! Give it a chance,everything ain't for everybody but DON'T get in YOUR own way!!
So if you want to come to a place full of drama and snitches and grown ups treat you like poop and the center director never listens to what trainees have to say then come to the Guthrie Job corps.!!
I have been at Guthrie Job Corps Center since November of 2017. The first few weeks were really exciting and the staff was very respectful. I have completed my trade, and now I'm currently enrolled in college through the center. Now, that only means that I go to college and the center provides me a bed, meals, and transportation.
This place is a joke. Even though the college students wake up at 5 am, leave no later than 6:30 am and do not get back until 8 sometimes 9 at night is ridiculous. The food is unhealthy in every way possible. The Residential Advisors are disrespecful and challenge their authority in any way, they will go to extremes to make your life miserable.
They expect you to act like adults, which we are, but we get treated like children. I do not recommend this place to anyone. My mistake was making a two year commitment for college. I should have completed out when I completed my trade to get my completion money. Now they won't give me my completion money until I finish college
Everything about this place screams hell. This center is very unprofessional, unproductive, and unorganized. Do NOT come here. Job corps is a great program, but this center is not the one you would want to be at.
im here on a computer typing this .....AT GUTHRIE JOB CORPS and all they do is bullshit plus you dont even learn anything they just sit u in front of a computer and say go
ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE!!! I have been at Guthrie Job Corps Center for a total of 4 months and I am currently still enrolled. There is way too much violence, drugs, bullying, and worse things than that. The staff here is really rude, and do not care whether students complete the program or not. All they care about is getting paid. The meals here are horrible and bad for the body, The Red Door is completely unorganized, and none of our medical needs are met. The admissions counselors will tell you that this is a great place, but they are just lying. Seriously, a prison takes care of their prisoners better than we are. Everything about this review is true.
I am at job corps now and it the best exp. I have it help change people to become successful people to work in industrially and provide knowledge to everybody here. and the food not that bad and I get $23.01 every two weeks but you can work on campus to earn more.
Enrolled here now, this place is garbage and filled with ghetto trash. About to self terminate and gtf out of here
Not a bad place to start for some, it beats being a bum or hanging on the streets. You can learn a trade for free.its up to the Individual who wants to better themselves.
Terrible. Don t come here. The weed is overpriced a .5 for $10-$20 and it s all mids. Garbage.
Being transgender I thought it would be more accepting. I was denied my request to be put in the males dorm and I have been treated like a second class student. I am so tired of just running around in circles. Also I am allegeric to some foods but the serve them in almost all the food. I warn you do not come here if you are trans. They will treat you bad.
I was homeless before I got their and I'm in the welding trade and it's super fun the staff are sstrict but good and they're carrying and the trades there are awesome you got you have so many choices to choose from my favorite part about it is people
Since the new center director things have gotten better. It's hard being away from family. But it's all for the better in the end.
Great place to start a new beginning, learn a tradecraft and Excell in the future!!
Straight Truth DO NOT COME!
they B.S through a lot .
This is the best Schooling I have had in a long time. They're a bit strict but they are very sweet and kind aswell. I went into security trade and I left with a job and my certification. I recommend this school to everyone who is between the ages of 16-24.
look, i wont sit here and tell you its a bad place to be, nor will i tell you its a good place, mrs mayberry the center director is quite racist, she wont do her job right, kids are constantly treated like crap by staff almost as if when we got here we signed over our human rights, ive seen so many people complete the whole program and leave empty handed, almost makes you wonder where the hell our completion money goes, This place is long ways away of having no problems, want my opinion? go to a different job corps this one is a waste of time.
The foods great, you get cable and wifi, not has bad as ppl make it out and you can earn extra cash on the side becides your check. They also take you out to eat and movies
I attended from Oct of 2013 to Dec of 2014 and it's just a Low security, educational prison. students are never paid what's promised. Treated like garbage by staff Who abuse their power. I was completed out of the program to make room for others and give the higher ups a bonus but never received the completion money I earned. Very few redeeming noteworthy qualities. Job corp is a fabulous idea, this particular one has a terrible center director who simply doesn't do her job. Go to a different job Corp.
I graduated with my CNA certification and my high school diploma. The program is not hard the staff not that helpful so you basically do everything yourself. People always got in fights there was alot of drug use there. People stole clothes from your washer and dryer while doing laundry. TOO MUCH DRAMA! If you are sick you are lucky if they send you home I had the flu and they didn't send me home till I was literally bed ridden. There "medicine " Dose not work at all for anything. Dorm staff sucks got threatened alot and told the staff and they did nothing but listen to her lie about it and then lost my dorm leadership. Because they believed this chick. The recreation people are awesome. The recreation trips are fun I recommend everyone do them you need a break from JCC.
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I'm gonna have to agree with Victoria Witherspoon on this, this place makes many promises but fulfills nearly none of them. I attended from february of 2012 to November of 2012, and also was completed out of the program to make the center staff look good. I literally only had a couple leasons left until my certification test. First off, the web page claims horseback riding and swimming lessons... How, when the center doesn't even have a pool?? and I'm sorry, the only time I ever noticed anyone leaving was weekend pass, being kicked out or leaving, the monthly scheduled trip to walmart, and on work-based learning trips. it's not just the center director that's corrupt, as far as i know it's most of the dorm advisors (pinky parker chief among them), and trade instructors (norman mcfarland was my instructor, for computer tech, and yes he abused very much of what power he was given. i was glad to hear that he no longer had his position there.)
As for recreational activities, I'm of the opinion that they don't count if you have to be told that "you're participating in a recreational activity" (big guy who runs the gym, over a megaphone is who said that).
granted, they have a gym with serviceable (though outdated) equipment, a small room for the viewing of pre-approved movies only, picked from a list that the center made, and even then only at certain pre-appointed (center-chosen) times.
I have to say that in my best memories of Guthrie Jobcorps, the amenities and features offered by the center featured marginally at best. My best memories are of hanging out in the rec room with other "trainees", taking turns playing and watching on game systems that WE OURSELVES brought to the center, watching my newfound friends play magic: the gathering, RPing in the dorm common room with those same friends, playing games that again, were provided by us. the training was minimal, not much instruction on the part of my instructor. The computer tech course is essentially a set of discs that you play on the computer, memorize key details, and take tests. There were "hands-on" activities that were a part of it, but such only consisted of things like "take this apart, stare at it, memorize the names and functions of the parts, and put it back together". I did have an amazing Dorm advisor, George Okora, who literally would have a reasonable conversation with ANYONE, provided they gave him the same amount of consideration they asked for from him. I already had my high school diploma when I began attendance, so I never had need of participating in that part of the curriculum.
My overall impression of the place is that the educational value was lacking, freedom was a happy thought and nothing more, and the only joy to be found is what you made yourself. Still, I made good friends there, friends that to this day if I saw them on the street, I'd offer them a hot meal and a place to sleep for the night. The center was horrible, a dreadful place with no concept of humanity. It was my peers that made the experience worthwhile. I thank those of you who've taken the time to read this far. If you attended with me, I do hope to see you again, and talk about happy times in the company of friends.
My name is Jesse Brown.
They keep telling me to get everything done faster and when I get to where I'm have two assignments left they won't do anything to make it to where I can complete out but the date they give me yea it's a great program but the staff has to be willing to work with the students I mean we work with them not against them other than staff taking their bad days out on students it's great and it's not all staff that does that just some
I am currently in the Guthrie job corps and its terrible. Illegal drugs all over campus, bad food for lunch, bad lunch servers, bad teachers and no staff actually really helps. Job corps is not for 16-17 year old minors. I have completed the program at the age of 17 and cant do anything but work fast food or retail. They don't give you your diploma until a month or two after you graduate and you don't even start trade or high school until you've been on campus for 2 months. The program is mainly to make money and they will hold as much money back from you as possible. They also take out money from your checks so you really don't even get $25 every 2 weeks, you get $23 and if you leave for the weekend they deduct for traveling fee. This place isn't what people think. Its changed dramatically since i first came which was on June 24th of 2018. I am just telling the truth about the program so you don't make the same mistake as a minor. I don't know to much about other job corps nut Guthrie is not it. AT ALL.
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