Anyone ever worked as a trainee CADD engineer/operator?
 

Been looking around for jobs but I have this itch to do CAD stuff , I did some very basic measurement and final design drawings using Sketchup at my last job and I liked it alot.

So has anyone worked as a trainee before? What's it like? I saw a job offering to be a trainee , says its a 2 year contract thing, I will be trained in real life scenarios and I think it's a 16mth(?) attachment as well , at the end of 2 years , I might have a chance to be signed as a permanent staff at the attachment company.(no guarantees I think)

Need some advice, since I have a dip in business , which is totally not related and my CADD experience(1 mth of sketchup and some AutoCAD, laughable) is purely self taught.

noone was a trainee CAD operator/engineer before? mm...

i think i saw that job posting somewhere before... was interested in it too...need advice

isit aceplp ? so far they are the only company offering this.

I'm also interested to know more about this job :D

yeah its aceplp. hopefully someone with experience in this job could advise before i consider applying...

hi there, have you applied? I saw the ad for this as well. thought of applying for it. just unsure of my skills in autocad itself

Don't join will Regret
 

Don't join the coy.. you will most likely regret!!

I also interested in CAD, i got learn autocad solidworks mastercam and ap100, mts. I do solidwork for 3 years, the rest just learn the basic.

Exactly. All company is meant for business profiting. Just that aceplp tops the rank as modern slavery agent targeting fresh grads who know nothing about the hard truth of working world, squeezing them to the max for profit.

The description of job offer in ads is significantly different from actual training and job scope. Instead of 3 months training, you are only being trained officially and systematically for a month before you are attached out for so-called 2-months industrial training. In fact, you, regardless as trainee operator/drafter/engineer, are ready to be "rent out" as draftman to perform drafting work for clients at the cost ranging from S$3k-4k+ per month for the remaining 23 months of 2 years contract.

You may join this company unless you can get any better decent job to finance your living. Think thrice.

I dun tink so… I waz fresh enginering deg grad and nw wrking at mnc cuz of de 2 yrs training n exp i got while wrking in aceplp as traineee cad enginr. as fr as I knw dis company is the only one tt offers such packge. Whr else r u goin gt the relevant exp n skills frm? de REAL EXP comes frm wrking directly w de clients, in fact I wrked wif abt 4 companys n learn tt some of thm SUCK n i NEVER wanna wrk thre aft i grad frm aceplp 2-yr prog. I wuld nv knw this UNLESS I was a jobhopper. Nw that I hv grad frm de 2-yr prog, I can fnd a gd decent job to finance my living. Stp tinking de wrld is against u, dun be so naive!!!

i'm an engineering diploma holder and currently still working at aceplp and about to complete the 2 yrs programme. i am expecting my bonus and now about to look for a new job. the line manager is still negotiating for my next potential employer's terms and conditions.

my training was in total 2 months inclusive of 1 month of theory and 1 month of internal ojt. my colleagues hve diff training period as some learn faster some are slower. its not bad, i learnt a lot after working at 6 diff companies.

I study Precision Engineering in ITE years back and actually work in F&B industry for the past 5 years (can't find jobs in engineering firm)...
I join aceplp since 2010, i find this company v weird as they provide free training & with salary...
It took me 4 months to be successfully attached to a company as i know nuts about drafting works hahaha... currently, i am working in a MRT project and really thankful to the trainers that came to the site office and guide me whenever i face diffcultites but sometimes get scolded by them...damn...Lol...

Very familiar… think my sister first joined this company. Training and working… something along this line. She has left now and is doing very well. quite happy… good career in some architect firm. Still doing something related to design.

When on earth is the world against me? What I know this company is exploiting my fren. He told me several bad experiences of other colleagues as well who have been duped into working for this company for at least 2 years. I am glad to hear that you are able to utilize your time with this company as a stepping stone for your career growth. Others may not.

Their chief trainer resigned for better job and apparently they even promote trainee as trainer who is even junior than my fren. Why can't they get a qualified or experienced trainer? I bet trainer's salary is also at the lowest side like my fren; that best explains why no one is willing to be trainer for this company. What a joke!

Don't be so naive that this is not the only company with such job package. Others like Cadskill may have better package than this.

im happy for those who are finishing your 2 years and are looking forward to your bonus, i doubt that they will give you bonus.
if anyone really interested to join them, go for an interview, they will also ask you to do a test, even you don't know how to do, dun worry they will still want you, cos we are their money making tool,
my biggest regret is i didnt ask the ppl around working at the company and end up regretted, to me i have board onto the pirate ship, feel free to ask those ppl working there, they will happily tell you whether is it woth to join.. just my two cent worth.

I do agreed with jyakku & didi29.
The training they provide to trainees are so basic
that u can learn from any CAD books which u can find
in the library. As long as u finish up the basic autocad
and microstation trainning..( can be within a month or 2)
u will be really to be sell as a skillful cad engineers to customers
( as what they claim on-the job -trainning). But when u
unable to produce what the customers want due to lack
of experience then they will ask for replacement. ( that mean u r
rejected and sent back to office) although due to insufficient training
but the boss scold u for not put in effort in your job.
They are more to say.. :(
Especially the Contract.. word with in word to trap careless ppl in.
Even MOM cannot do anything. :s16:

I have not checked this thread in a while but nice replies... i guess.

I have since learned AutoCAD on my own from videos available on the web, got the basic 2D stuff and landed a job as a draftsman.

Pay is meh... but I guess it's fine since I have zero experience and it's real OTJ learning. Now I'm more familiar with ACAD, Blocks, Fields etc.

Still have a lot to learn but I'm moving into 3D now.

chey, u talk whole day in de end is ur fren ah? where ur credible??? :s8:

anywy if i can use dis aceplp as stepping stne den how cum ur fren cannot??

im happy where i m now, i dun tink i got a bad deal frm aceplp at all. in de end is reallly how u mk use of the oppotunitys tt r given to u........ tts why sum ppl r more success then other in de end........ :D

Interesting cuz what you said is not the same as my sister... she received her performance bonus, M/C no claim bonus and share of transfer fees pay. She told me it was aceplp. Could it be that your work performance is not good?

Since I am self taught, I'm curious as to what you actually learn.

Do you all import Excel tables using Data Link?

Sheet sets? Dynamic Blocks?

Palettes? Setting up Fields to use dynamic properties etc. etc.

Dimension your drawings, Multiheaders, Annotation scales etc. etc.

What do they teach you exactly?

You must be very stupid or a trouble maker. Since you are so stupid, you should not expect other to be as stupid as you.

you must be another supid guy, since more than a thousand trainees graduated and performed well after going though the same trainng, why only you can n ot make. Do you admit that you are stupid.

Justice Light, since you are so stupid and I believe that you can never survive in this world, please look for the tallest building arround and end your life there.

I have attended the 3 months training and it was intenssive, that is why you failed to catch up and you are the one to be blamed. There was one bus driver in his 50 in my batch and he can catch up, why can't you? are you slower than a 50++ year old bus driver.
I am doing well and enjoy my current attachment after ending 2 yrs contract and waiting for recommendation by the company for new employment that I like.
What happened to you?
Have you ever ask yourself why? :s12:

I got my healthy lifestye bonus twice, contract end bonus and a skill diploma though I still with them while waiting for new job. I never regret joining them as I am skill full in CAD now. :D

I remember I took 3 hours to complete the test and scored 15% for the test during interivew. Recently the company gave me the similar test and I have completed it in less than 1 hour and scored 68%. These 2 tests have shown that I have great improvement in my skill. I am now confident to embark my career in CADD. :s12:

What about you? Have you taken the re-test after 2 years? :s12:

I believe that your biggest regret may not be joining the company, it was your attitude and the peer presure you had around you!
:yawn:

hi ahgonggong,

do you know that a coin have two sides, we are just sharing what we have been through, maybe there are things which you dun know wat is going on..
maybe you should have open up your ears and listen to what other ppl is saying

and you are really one lucky fellow to receive the contract end bonus...

didi29: All trainees that I know got their medical no claim bonus every 12 months, performance bonus at the end of their 2 years contract and transfer fees. You must be one of the trouble maker among the trainees and therefore you are now worried that you may not get your PERFORMACE BONUS. Am I right?:s12: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA:):):):):)HAHAHA

Not only that, I did called some ex-trainees, they did confirmed that the company did pay them all bonuses stated in the contract. They are now doing very well with their present employment thru the company, aceplp's recommndation.:s12: You are the only few who failed to make it. :yawn:

didi29:
If denailtan is finishing his 2 years without being terminated, I am very sure that his performance is good, therfore he should get all his bonuses. If you have bad working attitude because of the way you were broght up by your parents, that is too bad. :s12:

Justice_light:
I do not agree. You must have breached the 2 years contract that you signed when you were desperately looking for a job and then quit the traineeship after taking free training and full salary. This is a form of cheating and MOM will not intervene when the company that you have cheated go after you. Otherwise MOM will become part of the syndicate because of YOU!

You think MOM is as stupid as YOU?
HAHAHA:s12:

Hi ahgonggong,
i think you are more likely an uneducated person cos your parents never teach u any manners at bringing up ppls parents. Whether i have an attitude problem i know it myself. You don't have the right to lecture me, im just telling ppl my experience working there. It's up those ppl to think of themselves and pls grow up. ..from the way you reply i guess you don't have any much education and inmature.

didi29, i hve my bonuses too!! hw come u ddnt get urs?? :s11:

juz need to fulfil e agrement u sign n do ur job well, at de end of ur contract u will sure get it :s7:

Hi didi29

I am a diploma holder, may be you are better educated than me! but I am a man of integrity and know how to thanks other who treat me well. The company pay me full salary every month even during training, gave me free training that worth almost $10,000, gave me no cliam medical bonuses, sent me to attend external training that cost them S$2,500 and coach me on the job when ever I encounter difficulty.
I believe that you did enjoyted similar treatment but now, you turn arround and talk cock, said that the company ill treated you. Are you a human being? If you are more educated then me, you must be an educated barbarian.

LMFAO, HAHAHA....:s12:

hi ahgonggong,

it simply pointless to talk to u, if you were you in shoe, you will understand but you dun. Everyone have their own point of view, how have i been treated i know it myself.. you just lack of EQ when replying people. Maybe your thinking is shallow, or still in mature and i dont blame you.
The more you wrote, it sounds like you are someone else trying to promote the place. We are in this forum just to express ourself in what we face or do in certain work place, unlike you, doing personal attack to the ppl in this forum.we are just Giving ppl advice and up to them to decide.
Its good to know that they treat you well and you appreciate them, but not all ppl who work there experience that.. Maybe you are just to0 square to understand..
All the best to you ahgonggong in your future endeavor.

didi29
Since you did not deny that you have gone thru the training as I did, received full salary during training, spent company money attending costly external trianing, why are you still talking cock now?
You have confessed that you to have attitude problem, I propose that you should go to IMH for treatment. Maybe you have depression or autism. Early treatment will certainly help you to recover and live a normal life.

LOL....HAHAHA :s12:

hi, i work there and i am treated fine. i haven't heard my colleagues being unhappy. what happened to make you say otherwise? asking cos you seem to be one of the unhappy minority.

hi ahgonggong,

its seems that you just dun understand, as i mention before whether i have attitude problem i know it myself and my mind is much more clearly then you. As for you, go and learn some EQ before you start blasting at other ppl.
its pretty waste of time to argue abt this matter as it is turning out to be a personal attack,for example- in cyber space you can do what you want, say whatever and do mutiple accounts to back up your say...whatever it is, in the end everyone go through different experience.. If there is a course for improving EQ, i think you should attend one, as it will enchance and improve yourself.. .

There is no right or wrong, ppl just have different point on view on what they experience and happy chinese new year to u too..

didi29, so now are you trying to say that
1 you have multiple accounts to backup what you said
2 so that you can any how talk cock in the forum?

If yes you should be banned from this forum! Because what you said could mislead other innocent ppls.

So I conclude here
1 you have received the full training as what I did
2 received the full salary during throughout the training
3 benefited from external training fully funded by the company

I would like to ask you one more time
1 are you a human being?
2 What level of EQ do you have?
3 Did your parents tought you to grateful to others?

HAHAHA....:s12:

haiz, waste of my time. you can simply just say wat you want
I'm just telling ppl what i think and up to them decide.
Your own stupidity have already proven to me those question that you post for me...
well, im not going to downgrade myself to reply u anymore.this will be my last reply to u
You are just being too inmature for me to communicate with you..
All the best to u ah gonggong

didi29
you are such a loser. please talk sense next time!
LMFAO hahahahaha...:s12:

Anonymous1984

Why regret? The way you wrote I guess you must be one of the CAD trainee like me.

You must have enjoyed the free training worth almost $10,000 and full salary during the initial 3 months intenssive CAD training like what I have gone thru.

Please do not talk cock after taken all the above for free!

:s12:

Jyakku
Well, i don't really understand what the fuss is all about. Isn't that the point of ' ON THE JOB TRAINING'? Which means you train ON THE JOB. Even so, it's not as though we are left to die out there as you had said. We do recieve technical support from the company when required.

Please enlighten us on which company operates on a loss? Which company would not want to maximise profit from their business?

well.. ignoring the pointless arguing up there, anyone like to share their experience? what they teach etc. etc.

or if you got some work in your portfolio to show off, maybe post it here?

i'd like to get a gauge on how i'm doing through self learning.

hello, can anyone tell me more about how they conduct the training?

roughly whats the starting pay for a trainee cad engineer and the training venue? because their website lists 2 office venues.

thanks!

dunno if yours is at kallang pudding area but my friend join and during reservist he pwee saliva and say the boss blow job about him to other company until very good hahaha but get 1.5k only while the boss still can claim the what course fee

:s12::s12::s12:

All trainees of this company are paid a salary during their triaining and they did not pay a singlwe cent for the 3 months training!

I remember that the poly and uni did not pay me as a student!

The company is so kind, so please do not tlak cock!:s12::s12::s12:

how much starting pay after the training period?