Penn Foster - Unhappy after I got my Pharmacy Technician Career Diploma
I'm not happy after I got my pharmacy technician career diploma from Penn Foster Career School. Advice: pick a program that provides you with an academic adviser & a guaranteed 180-200 hour externship at a local pharmacy! I graduated and got my PTCB certification. No one cares. I still can't get a job.I'm having trouble finding a pharmacy that will let me complete an externship or "work experience option". Every pharmacy I've been to which includes parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey only cares if you have experience or hands on training in an actual pharmacy. One pharmacy cashier I talked to told me "I don't see how a successful pharmacy tech program can be online. You need to train in person in a pharmacy setting." Great!
"We do offer a work experience option to students, but we do not arrange it for you. We give you all the documentation you need to arrange an externship yourself."-Penn Foster employee
"How do "you offer" a work experience option if you didn't play any part in helping us arrange it with the pharmacy? If Penn Foster didn't make a phone call, email, or write a letter directly to the pharmacy, that we are trying to do a work experience option with? If we are arranging it ourselves, than we're not really doing it through Penn Foster."-me
Location: Newark, Delaware
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I do,too.I can't do my externship..no ..no anywhere.No placement for me,CVS,Walgreens,local hospital and local pharmacy store don't accepted..it's a bit sad.
Yes,I got more trouble than you.And that did the same as you.
Penn foster now has a partnership with Walgreens and CVS to complete externships. I say never complete a course that doesn't set up the externship for you, it's hard to find a site to complete externships on your own
Try Walgreens. I worked there not having any experience and eventually they pay to send you to get your certification.