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Mortimer Bell International Reviews

3.7

76% would recommend to a friend

(18 total reviews)

Mortimer Bell

72% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Mortimer Bell International has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 18 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Mortimer Bell International employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Agriculture industry (3.7 stars).

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18 reviews
1.0
9 Mar 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Absolutely none - don’t be fooled by the positive reviews, they’re written by the team themselves!

Cons

I haven’t given this company much thought since I left but in my new job I was sitting in an anti-bullying and harassment talk and almost every point mentioned drew me back to thinking about this place. An incredibly toxic environment, riddled with bad behaviour and bullying (mostly by the kid in charge), and he really is a kid. I’m not really sure how this company is still going to be honest. Minimum pay, absolutely no benefits (except a very generous £10/month for gym membership) and a free lashing of dread for your daily commute. You’ll be sworn at, constantly put down and be forced into working well beyond your contracted hours and lose all work-life balance, consequently causing you to waste precious days of your life. If you want to build a good career do not start here, I feel sorry for the current employees because they don’t even realise how much better they can do. Unless you enjoy being harassed, seeing your friends be reduced to tears, enjoy a culture laced with pure disregard and disgusting behaviour, and you have no self-respect, this will not be the place for you. I have no doubt I’ll be contacted to take this down before too long but nothing I’ve written is untrue so I’ll not be doing that, and what have I got to lose - the bully’s already written me a bad reference (oh yes, did I forget to mention you better watch out for your future job prospects as the owner is such an egotistical demon that he won’t even let people move on ha!) - although luckily for me I got the job anyway (10/10 for effort though mate).

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Mortimer Bell International Response
6y
We advise anyone reading this review to look at our pictures to back up our claims this review is FAKE. Thank you for leaving a review, we are sorry that on this occasion you found nothing positive to say about Mortimer Bell. In relation to your comments we offer flexible working, 4.30 finish on friday for all employees , run annual events, poker nights, World Cup events, Gym membership, External Training, our team leaders are going through £4,500 training course. We have a HR director to ensure that our culture is reviewed regularly. We advise anyone reading this review to look at our pictures to back up our claims this review is FAKE. There is nothing in your review that is factual - and the fact a second review has appeared we deem this as a fake review as your job title was Recruiter and now Business Admin .... Can you please stop writing fake reviews. We are very proud of our business and we advise you focus on your business rather than writing fake reviews about others. Thank you for your time.
1.0
18 June 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Apart from the CEO, the rest of the staff are lovely and the working day is enjoyable, UNTIL about 10am when the CEO walks in and the atmosphere changes dramatically.

Cons

Firstly I think you should be made aware that the majority of the positive reviews contain lies. Management is very poor and you will not be supported, unless your idea of being supported is being demotivated, sworn at and being patronised. You will be threatened with your job security if you fail to meet targets. Instead of giving you guidance and further structured training on how to do better in your role, the CEO feels he should take ownership of the deal proving he “still has it”. The commission here is uncapped however be aware that, even with your degree (from a top university), it is likely that you will be starting as an unpaid intern doing 11 hour days.

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Mortimer Bell International Response
7y
We advise anyone reading this review to look at our pictures to back up our claims this review is FAKE. Hello Again !! Usually, we are more than happy to have someone critique us here at Mortimer Bell, we can all learn from a bit of constructive feedback after all. However, the fact that you seem extremely motivated to harass & devalue the hard work of all the individuals that work here in Mortimer Bell, even going to the extent of making new accounts on websites solely with the intent of only leaving us a poor review as this is the 3rd bad review you have left now in a week which are all stating all areas of concern and are different every time. Which is very disappointing and verging on ‘Cyber bullying’ . We would love the opportunity to invite you into the office so we can show you all our training including our training academy which covers RT1 & RT2 training manuals which are produced by John Baxter who was an ex S -Three & Frank Recruitment Group trainer. As you will know as a previous employee of Mortimer Bell that we have invested a lot of time in providing a 1 week intensive training course for new arrivals and do online tests weekly for new staff to identify any training gaps so we can support all of our employees which is why I don’t understand this review and your comments on this point as you will have received and see all this training. You make comments on our CEO which we found very shocking as its our CEO who is the driving force of the recruiters as he come from a Global Recruitment Business prior to this . In relation to our CEO we can see the hard work he has put into driving the business forward which he has been doing, as you can see on Company House our accounts will show 250% growth on Profit and Turnover in 12 months which is fantastic growth and we achieved over 150% growth in 2017. The CEO has introduced and invested £10's of thousands into training and development for the staff. From all your 3 reviews we can see that you have personal issue with our CEO and a vendetta against him which is very unfair as all our CEO wish all of our ex-employees the best in the future endeavours. In relation to our staff ALL our current employees receive a salary as we have relationships with the top universities and the reason we do get graduates from the Top Tier universities is because we are a good business. Please do contact one of our Cambridge grads Richard Hindmarch directly on LinkedIn to confirm this. We would also be happy for any future employee reading this to contact us directly and allow us the opportunity to prove this to show this comment again is inaccurate and fictional like the other two reviews that have been written. On basis of targets - We set realistic targets set out by industry standards and professional recruitment coaches to ensure these are measurable and allow employees to stay motivated. Our management & CEO do everything they can to help support all employees and that is why we introduced Microsoft Teams and SharePoint to allow the employee to track their performance and raise any support or training needs they may need with their team leader. We are sorry if you feel that all the support and infrastructure Mortimer Bell has put into place wasn't enough, but we really are a lot further advanced than most recruitment agencies of our size. Even some blue chips in the industry are as not technology advanced as Mortimer Bell. In relation to attrition rates, the sales industry is known for high attrition rates and in relation to ours we have employees in the business that have worked for Mortimer Bell for over 3 years which can all be seen on our LinkedIn page and we pride ourselves on not hiring 5 . 10 or 20 staff at a time, we are very particular in our hiring and bring staff in at 2 at time to ensure the support and guidance is there. Unlike some agencies that hire 20 staff and let majority go, we dont believe this structure so in relation to attrition rates we are one of the lowest in the North East. So we don't have high attrition compared to the industry do we? However, respectfully I'd like to invite you down & I will show you our training academy, support documents for new starts, our induction process and a sit down with the CEO on how he motivates the sales force to be as successful as they are. If you are to look at our pictures on glassdoor im sure you will find many of happy / motivated employees and this will also showcase that we are not always about work and we really challenge the status quo of work hard / play hard. Perhaps this will change your opinion and you can now stop writing the reviews to leave some space for other real reviews. If you would like to speak with us, please email us on info@mortimerbell.com. Kind Regards, Office Manager
2.0
14 June 2019

Meh

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Office location The employees are all good people stuck in a loop and comfortable which is fair enough

Cons

The training, majority of the reviews are fake and forced. It’s full of lies and quite a toxic place to work. I’ve had worse jobs I guess. I was brought up to treat the CEO the same way I’d treat a cleaner, it’s clear that the CEO wasn’t brought up on the same morals.

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Mortimer Bell International Response
7y
We advise anyone reading this review to look at our pictures to back up our claims this review is FAKE. Hello there !! Thank you for your feedback and we did review your last review you wrote 2 days ago after your email request. You have now notified us of your new review, we would really appreciate it if you would stop writing multiple different reviews which are inaccurate about our business. While we are happy to respond to every review you write :) we really hope you can stop after this review, as we are very busy people and as much as i would love to respond to your reviews I have other tasks to do :( We are happy to address any questions you may have and please do contact me directly at office@mortimerbell.com and I can arrange a date for this to be discussed. Thank you, Office Manager
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