TechSkills / MyComputerCareer.edu
Reviews and Complaints

Any updates or Information since then? I was in there course... Unfortunately I took two :-(

I would like to respond to Jerry regarding this bogus complaint against myself, Christopher Bryant, a past Campus Director for TechSkills LLC. I would never conduct myself in such an unprofessional manner. I care about my students success. I won't go into details as I respect my students and staffs privacy and is a FERPA violation. I will however defend myself on record, and I deny this accusation.

This School has not fulfilled its obligation to me in regards to the contract that I signed where I would receive my books and needed help in a good timely fashion. I am currently waiting for books that I should have had 4 weeks ago. I have not received a response to any of the last 4 emails that I have sent to 3 ladies that are at the school.

TechSkills also was unable to fulfill their obligation to a vocational Externship that I was to complete. I signed a contract for the vocational portion in October. I started going to school 12 hours a week and once I completed my medical terminology course I was to complete an externship where I was to work in a medical facility for 120 hours. In order to complete this I was to take time off from my then employer Wachovia Bank. It turned out that I was out on Short term disability from having surgery. I instructed the vocational director around December 2nd to let her know when I would be able to complete this externship. My former instructor let me know that she did not make any phone calls until Dec 23rd when I came in for my 2 certifications. I waited for several weeks and I finally had to let the vocational director know that I was going to be returning to work Jan 26th and would not be able to take any more time off from work. I had to take an incomplete for this course since TechSkills could not line up an externship during the timeframe of Dec. 19th thru Jan 26th

Also this past October the management staff made a decision where they felt that they did not need the instructors to be full time. TechSkills placed all but one instructor on part time status and took away their benefits. Most of the instructors that were there when I first started are no longer there which includes my former Instructor who had to leave, since she needed to work full time and needed health benefits. My former instructor really cared about her students but after she left us, the medical students were left with no one that we could really call on for any help or guidance. They finally gave us contact information from someone at the Charlotte campus but they were not at school on the nights that I attended that often.

I would not recommend TechSkills so long as things stay as they are. When you pay or go into debt thousands and commit months of your life to something, you expect to get more than a stack of books and written worksheets and tests.

I have to say that if anyone is going to take a coding course do it in a "real" class setting. Not one where worksheets and over priced books are your teachers. This was definitely something I could of done online and a lot cheaper.

This school is a joke. There is no way anyone trying to find work in any course they offer is qualified to do the work needed to be successful. I think it is time for a class action law suit.

This school is a S-C-A-M.

Hello to you all. Tech skills had a location in Tampa, Florida that has closed. I just dial the number [protected] and no answer. I was told some of the same information about taking certain certification before going for CCNA or MSC. which is indeed and up selling tactic. My issue with the school. I'm paying on a loan in which i didn't receive the full training. if you knew or thought that the location in Tampa, fl would close then why keep enrolling students? I took the first portion of my A+ test but when i came back to finish the second part of the exam, the school closed. I spoke to a lawyer yesterday about the situation. The loan company tuition option has no answers for this problem. There business is to collect payments. A corporate office number i found on the web. [protected] Fax#[protected]

FYI - Companies are now looking closely at schools like this as to many of them are passing students with no real understanding of the jobs they will perform. I already had 14 years of computers with some programming skills when I went to this school. Good luck to all.

I totally agree. I was told that my contract was up in February however I recently found the original contract and the end date should have been May. They told me that the first 2 basic classes for A+ would be necessary for me to get my MCSA. Long story short, the classes took longer than I was told they would. I believe I would have finished if the teaching coordinator would have done his job.
There was only one teacher for the text portion of the classes and the teacher for the Lab portion was out most of the time due to Chemotherapy treatments. The school never got a replacement or substitute teacher and there was no teacher for the labs. I was told my time was up in February and never completed the last 2 courses as I had run out of time.
They still have over $520 for certifications I have already paid for and the branch here in San Jose Calif. disassociated themselves with the main company in Dallas as they wanted accreditation that the main company does not have. I was told that the Main office was the one I had to contact for restitution for the 2 Microsoft Certification that were pre paid and any complaints that I had. Good luck to you all.
If you decide on a major lawsuit towards this company count me in. This sounds like a problem that goes back to staff that is poorly trained by the corp. office as it seems to be a problem that is all over the country. I would suggest that and an outside committee have all records pulled for the last 10 years and every student be contacted for verification of completion of their classes. We are the ones who found this site and posted our complaints, probably less than .05%. Imagine the amount of people out there that had problems and didn't post them about this company.

I enrolled back in 09' at the Houston branch for the MCSA program. I completed my A+, Network+, MCP, and the 70-290 courses. Well after that they didn't wanna give me anymore extensions so I could finish the 70-291 course. So I've been trying to do it on my own cause i have all the labs. What would some of you recommend I do about it, cause I've tried calling the lady who was my advisor and she never returns my calls. Could I get a refund for the last course if I haven't completed it?

When I signed up there was no 1 year limit and it was instituted after I started. The Instructors I met there were very nice, however the lab instructor was out for Kemothearpy and very sick most of the year leaving only one instructor to cover both the classroom and the lab. The instructor that was there tried his best, but could not cover what was needed in the lab. It wa unfortunate that there was no other teacher for these classes. As a result I didn't complete the MCSE classes as I had no instructor to help me through. Complaining to the person in charge, Mike at the San Jose, Ca. Techskill only created more difficulty in me achieving my goals as he blamed it all on me. This company should be fully investigated and have all the students in the past 10 years come forward to verify if they got the training they deserved. I would not recomend this school to a friend