Applied online through a job site when applying for anything and everything, realised after I'd applied for two different roles with this company, but only one job was available?
Got a call back almost immediately and all was well, I went to the interview in an odd building which I thought couldn't be the offices for a multi million pound company, but the receptionist said they had just moved hence why it was so dead and empty.and all the signs were just printed from Microsoft word and pinned up with blu tac. Went in for my interview, a five minute chat to a man bugging up the company telling me the Manchester office was the most successful, and asking the usual interview questions and said he would be taking three people to the trial day which was the following day. He told me it was a ten hour day 8-6 with all my travelling it would easily be 12 hours, I was immediately put off but I desperately needed a job and thought this would be perfect. I was happy to get a call back and cancelled all my plans I had for the day.
Got to the office the following day and was told I'd done really well to get this far etc etc and we would be shadowing someone who's the best they've got in the office at the job we'd applied for. Off I went to Manchester Piccadily and got on a train for half an hour, walked another half an hour all whilst looking interested in everything this woman was talking about, no room for conversation just talking at me, telling me I should let the office know I have a car because I could use it to ferry people around to events - I said yeah but thinking absolutely not. I reached the 'event' it was a quiet shopping street somewhere I'd never heard of.
Got asked to sit in a coffee shop and asked to fill in a stupidly long booklet whilst she did the role of the job and she would be back in two hours. I then got suspicious as to why I was just sat in a coffee shop filling in a booklet and realised this job was not an events marketing assistant what so ever. It was hounding people on the street to make them fill in surveys for blue chip companies - a salesman pretty much. I rung the office and told her it wasn't for me and went home.
After reading some reviews I seem to have had a lucky escape, this company is a complete joke and tricks graduates into thinking they've hit the jackpot landing a great job in a huge and growing company. I can't see how this company has got one employee to be honest. It seems like the company changes its name whenever it gets a few bad reviews and that's why it was all a dead office with paper signs, I've got a feeling the company doesn't exist in the way it tries to promote. It's daylight robbery.
