I have an old Uni friend, someone Im not close to anymore: moved 200 miles away back home, years ago.
She has a chequered CV and work history. That's fine if its what she wants but she never seems to stick at anything despite being smart.
She did a MFL degree and while I knew her at my uni, dropped out took a gap year and finished somewhere else.
Moved on immediately to librarianship. Got the qualification, and studied whilst working. Did limited fixed term contracts in specialist libraries and now hasnt worked in one for around a decade.
Moved straight in to doing IT at university again, undergrad again, part time whilst working. Has never got an IT job.
Fancied doing something creative and took some design courses and hasnt managed to make a go of anything.
None of this is intended to be a criticism at all.She's a great person and people can do what they want with their lives and if she likes to change things up, that's her choice.
Im in a top profession, which is hugely competitive and very oversubscribed. She's now put the feelers out and started asking me about doing postgrad courses to join my profession. Should I just give general stats about the profession. Or should I just be totally honest and say that with her kind of chequered c v and work history, she will find it very difficult to convince anyone that she wants to be a part of this profession?
It would cost a considerable amount of money to do the courses and throwing good money after bad to collect another qualification that she's probably not going to use.