Entertainment Career Connection - Scam?

Entertainment Career Connection is a mentor-apprentice course offering pupils education possibilities in the real-world entertainment industry (radio, film, recording). They partner pupils with professionals who will serve as their mentor and guide them as they finish the curriculum. According to reports the company's 2008 job placement percentage was 75% plus they just celebrated their 25th year anniversary. So what motivated the allegations about the Entertainment Career Connection scam?

Truth is, there are some companies that do nothing but steal money from their clients while failing to give the customers the services they ought to have. Regrettably, there are times when companies that do provide top quality services are tagged as scams. Here are a few situations:

1. When a company provides a certain program or product that is different it can be labeled as a scam. Presently, the standard form of education is the conventional school. Entertainment Career Connection employed an approach that is not new but is somewhat "different". The mentor-apprentice set up has existed for centuries even before the birth of conventional schools.

2. An unhappy or unsatisfied client can make a claim about a business being a scam. This usually comes about when the client fails to understand the whole framework of the contract. Entertainment Career Connection offers a program that can unknowingly attract people who are looking for a shortcut to fame and fortune without understanding fully the conditions within the program. The mentor-apprentice set up will require a lot of self discipline and sense of duty since this is a variety of modular self-study. The pupil may feel the urge to draw wrong conclusions if he or she fails to grasp the whole concept of the set up.

This article has no intention of proving or disproving accusations of an Entertainment Career Connection scam, nor does it have the purpose of discrediting any prior student from Entertainment Career Connection. Rather, the point is that before we label something a scam, we should have a balanced look at the facts beyond simple hearsay. Here are some checks and balances to the discussion:

* The number of disgruntled students from whom ECC has obtained complaints accounts for roughly one percent of their entire clientele. That translates to an approval rating of 99 percent over a 25-year time period.

* For every complaint lodged, ECC has been able to supply numerous favorable recommendations from students, graduates, mentors and industry professionals who attest to the quality of the program.

* ECC's 76-percent job placement rate rivals or exceeds that of many competing courses - solid evidence that the course works for those who work with it.

* ECC has a verified history of making every attempt to rectify customer issues individually.

The point is that every business has dissatisfied clients, some of whom cannot be pleased. This does not make each and every business a con. Entertainment Career Connection has enough longevity and enough happy pupils that we should be slow to place the "Entertainment Career Connection scam" label on them.