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I had a great experience with how Acadium matched me severally with a mentor/business for a digital marketing apprenticeship. However, what you claim to be an apprenticeship program was supposed to be a place of learning not a place where those who claim to be your mentors do not teach you a digital skill but resort to giving you some tasks that are meant for experts without even showing you how to go about it. In the end, your mentor will tell you that he/she needs a more experienced person to do those daunting tasks free of charge.

I would definitely recommend Acadium. The application was useful to find first experiences in the marketing area

It looks like they are not interested in many apprentices because I think they are not getting many businesses to give apprenticeships. They require the slightest experience/knowledge in digital marketing for apprentices to get approved. I have 2+ years of knowledge and virtual experience programs with Redbull and Lululemon. They didn't reply in time occasionally also they wasted almost two weeks. I was in the interview phase but was taken a step back and rejected.

We were connected with an apprentice who we interviewed and who was unsatisfactory. We requested a refund, which was denied. Acadium took the position that because they had introduced us to one person, their side of the agreement had been fulfilled. We've had to file a dispute with our credit card company.

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We used Acadium to try and find an apprentice for our startup. At first I was optimistic but had my reservations. My reservations turned out to be warranted. Pros: I will say that the customer service is generally quick to respond. They also give you some feedback and have a system in place to try to keep the matches "working well." I'll also say that I think they are CLOSE to having a rewarding and winning solution. There are just too many negative aspects to warrant paying for this service IMO. CONS: To start, the level of talent on the platform is very hit or miss. I understand that the objective of this platform is to give apprentices an opportunity to learn, real world experience, resume building, job opportunity etc. But it leads to a lot of candidates who don't really have a very strong motivation to actually do the work. It sounds good in practice but is very difficult in our experience to pair with someone who is actually going to do much. Another gripe of mine is that you can only ever see or get paired with one apprentice at a time. It makes the process very difficult to see who is actively looking and what the prospect pool looks like. To me, I think they should switch the process around. They should have companies reaching out and recruiting the candidates to see if THEY are interested. Only if you are paired with candidate are you billed. Instead, the clock starts on billing and you have to go through the painstaking process of reviewing induvial CVs, and it could take days or weeks to pair with 1. Thirdly, something that is really not apparent and very hard to understand, you are paying for a subscription quarterly in order to access an apprentice. They make it seem like its a one time fee in exchange for 90 days of apprentice. It's NOT. That fee will be billed every quarter regardless of how long you actually have an apprentice. I will accept some blame for not fully understanding this before signing up. That being said, they really need to make this more clear to avoid customer dissatisfaction. I would pay $459 for 90 days of an apprenticeship. I would not pay for $459 for 3 months of trying to make a half ass apprenticeship work, stopping, onboarding another, stopping... etc. If you are looking for an intern or apprentice, I recommend you look elsewhere. The candidate pool is limited and the membership fees pile up regardless of work done. You are likely going to be better of recruiting from schools.

As a decade-plus solopreneur, I have trouble trusting others to help me run my business. Delegation is way more than tasking people with stuff, and relinquishing control isn’t easy. Fortunately, Acadium is a great segway into getting used to hiring extra hands, and it’s giving me the experience I need to eventually upgrade to outsourcing a freelancer or team, which I can also do through Acadium.

A friend of mine suggested Acadium to me few months back. Earlier I was hesitant to check the website but I should have enrolled on the website much earlier. The contents are easy to understand and their apprentice program really helps you in narrowing down on the niche in the long run.