£44.00 for a single replacement City & Guilds certificate!

[NickDavies]

So they were thrown out by mistake many years ago, when awarded back in the day they came rolled up in a cardboard tube (similar to an empty kitchen roll tube) which my ex wife claimed she thought was rubbish in my Man cave that she should have not trespassed into anyway.

Never really needed them in the intervening years as my Heating,Ventilating and Domestic Engineers NJIC indentures and a 10 minute chat were usually enough to convince any UK supervisor or manager who knows anything about mechanical services that I am a bona fide engineer.

However, several weeks ago I had an interview with a company (better not to name them on this forum) one of the managers was a young fellow half my age and I had to keep asking what he was saying as I could not understand barely a word he said, anyway when I showed him my completed indentures he asked for the Guilds certificates and that was a bit of a problem, no guilds = no job.

So online £44.00 for a city and Guilds search and replacement certificate, what a let down, my original guilds were quite ornate and printed on heavy weight cream paper with a proper watermark.....the replacements that turned up were nothing like the original...............

£44.00 for some flimsy paper with a hologram and a printed signature? it's a bit rich to charge such a sum and only provide a quite basic looking certificate, but at least the next time some back stabbing career ladder climbing johnny come lately type who can't speak clearly asks for my guilds I will be able to oblige.

 

[Stoney Ground]

Last week my wife had a telephone interview with an agency, who'd head hunted her.
The young man asked her, as she did not have a degree if she could send copies of her A levels as the company would need evidence of her educational level.
She explained, that she no longer had these pieces of paper but could find her cycling proficiency certificate, which they could view.
She has worked in her industry IT, for nearly 40 years and told the chap not to bother putting her forward, if that was the company policy she's not interested.

 

[Chalked]

I laminated mine years ago.
Do remember it turning up in a large bog roll back in 1985!

 

[Rickster123]

I laminated mine years ago.
Do remember it turning up in a large bog roll back in 1985!

That's the year I started primary school chalky!!

 

[Stoney Ground]

He was 14 at the time though.

 

[Chalked]

That's the year I started primary school chalky!!

Making me feel very old.
Been plumbing 35 years now.... Got to say I still find some bits quite interesting!

 

[rpm]

That's the year I started primary school chalky!!

Poor you missing out on the 70`s. :wheelchair: lol

 

[Stigster]

That's the year I started primary school chalky!!

Same year for me too.

 

[Last Plumber]

I had to pay for mine again too and the sillabus so it wasn't cheap but it saved me having to pay for qualifications I've already got and sitting through hours of listening to what I already know being spewed out across a classroom

I'm sure some of us feel the same !

 

[Gasmk1]

found mine the other week also my apprenticship certificate from Brithish gas north western 1976 for city and guild 1977 for the apprenticship cert it was a 4 year term then

 

[NickDavies]

btw the certificate came in an A4 envelope which had "do not bend" plastered all over it............guess what the postman did? lol

thanks to everyone for making me feel at home : )