CDI College

[jdmkidd]

Got a relative already to go to this college for med lab heard it was **** for IT and comp courses but alright for the healthcare part. Any thoughts.

[UrbanPoet]

i heard these 'get your diploma' quick colleges arent always the best... just b/c ppl look @ it and question the quality of the education.
isnt CDI like DEvry and other similar 'do your diploma in 1 yr' type of schools?

[midnightskulker]

My girlfriend is currently taking Web Design. Almost every week is a new course.

For example:
5 days - Microsoft Office XP
5 days - Basic HTML
10 days - Dreamweaver

She had a lot of problems with her teacher who rarely showed up, barely taught, and basically didn't do anything. Many of the students complained and she now has a new teacher who is actually teaching them and arriving to class on time and staying until the end of the scheduled day.

[dealguy2]

Yes useless for IT. Any resume we receive with CDI on it is shredded.

[UrbanPoet]

Yes useless for IT. Any resume we receive with CDI on it is shredded.

seriously?!?

[dealguy2]

seriously?!?

yep

[jdmkidd]

yes but what about the health care stuff.

[formalentity]

wow good thing I didn't go there.. I plan on going BCIT or Kwantlen or last resort VCC :/

[ricoboxing]

My girlfriend is currently taking Web Design. Almost every week is a new course.

For example:
5 days - Microsoft Office XP
5 days - Basic HTML
10 days - Dreamweaver

She had a lot of problems with her teacher who rarely showed up, barely taught, and basically didn't do anything. Many of the students complained and she now has a new teacher who is actually teaching them and arriving to class on time and staying until the end of the scheduled day.

if she's taking web design then why the hell are they teaching microsoft office? thats like teaching adobe photoshop to someone in a adminstrative assistant course!

[Gex]

Everyone needs basic word skills. Anyone that does tech support hates the calls "I'm trying format my word document but it won't let".

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I personally went to CDI many years ago. Basically its an expensive way to get a piece of paper.

The teachers there are a hit and miss, you might get a good one but they don't stick around for very long because I get the impression that the job sucks. The other teachers (when they decided to show up) can't really answer all your questions. You end up troubleshooting the problem yourself anyways when you get into the hands on stuff (which is a good thing). All of the material they cover are out of text books easily purchased yourself.

I went there before they started the health care courses. I can't give any details about that sorry.

I can also say that anyone that has CDI on their CV will be frowned apon but not necessarily shredded unless you have 0 work experince. I'm working because I had prior experince in IT.

[Frankie3s]

Got a relative already to go to this college for med lab heard it was **** for IT and comp courses but alright for the healthcare part. Any thoughts.

I don't know how good the schools are now but I went to CDI 15 years ago. Graduated with high marks and within 2 weeks of graduating I had been offered positions with DELL (when they used to assemble PC's here), IBM and Honeywell (they used to have these companies canvass the schools). I decided to work for the school instead and taught at CDI for 5 years before moving onto my own consulting business.

I've had major contracts with insurance companies, Banks and even did 2 contracts with the government. The thing about CDI at the time is that you had to be motivated and have the discipline to succeed. It's basically self study with guidance. I was very motivated and did the program quickly to graduate.

[BadDrafter]

Graduated with high marks and within 2 weeks of graduating...... I decided to work for the school instead and taught at CDI for 5 years before moving onto my own consulting business.

I don't know if I would want a vocational education from somebody who never worked in the vocation.

To me it reminds me of feeding a chicken some KFC.

[Frankie3s]

I don't know if I would want a vocational education from somebody who never worked in the vocation.

To me it reminds me of feeding a chicken some KFC.

True, but you have to start somewhere. If no one gave you an a chance you would never get your break. The trick is earning your opportunity and once you get it work hard to continue to improve yourself. The great thing about being so young at the time was that anything that I didn't know we as a group discovered and learned together. There are a lot of people out there with many years of experience that still don't know a damn thing.

A word about the companies back in the day...when they came to the school they were very picky and students treated it like it was a privilege to get the chance to work there. Those companies in the past had donated quite a bit of equipment to the schools too so that the students could be trained on what they were using at the time. Nowadays I'm sure it's a different story. I can't speak for the school now but in the past I had benefited greatly.