Recruitment Scamming Agencies...

O.K., so as you know, I am still catastrophically unemployed. I have tried me hardest to find a job but it just doesn't seem to be going that well.

Who wouldn't want this mush? Eh?

:)

Anyhoo, let me set the scene... Tuesday 21st September. Woke up stupidly early at 8.30am. Lay on the sofa for a good few hours revelling in the delight that is ChallengeTV and shouting at the morons on Dale's Supermarket Sweep that "THE SPAM IS DOWN THE OTHER ISLE, YOU FUCKIN' PILLOCK!"

;)

Lone behold, I get a phonecall from a very professional sounding woman at 4WARD PROMOTIONS in Manchester and she wonders if it is possible that I can attend a meeting that same day. I'm eager to say the least. I get a move on, print off the email she sends me to prep for the interview and jump on the train, organising to meet with friends while I'm there.

First of all, it takes FOREVER to find the place. Dickinson Street is near the Library but how the hell was I supposed to know this?! Me and my friend went for a wander and finally found it with seconds to spare before my appointment time. I filled out a form, of which all the information was on my CV - so I was a bit narked off to say the least. Was ushered into a waiting room where I was eyeing up the competition - I couldn't stop grinning at the whole situation and wondered, "What the fuck am I doing here?"

Then this tall leggy blonde walks in and takes me upstairs for an interview. Now, the offices looked dodgy. Her office had nothing in it, only a desk and two chairs, which was weird. And what became apparant throughout the interview was that she was avoiding telling me exactly what the job entailed. She blabbed on, very convincingly and nicely might I add, about managerial positions within the year (and maybe earlier months if you proved prosperous) and failed to tell me the exact number of wages.

Now, I carried on in my usual dorky and bubbly fashion before shaking her hand and leaving, expressing that YES, I am ambitious and YES, I would be prepared to come back tomorrow for an all-day interview with the company, starting at 9.15am.

It all seemed a little too good to be true... Meeting up with friends later, I told them how well it all went. But one girl was dubious. She told me to be careful and do my research. She'd gone for a job similar to this, been successful at the interview like me, but then researched the agency and discovered that it was a scammng agency that wasn't worth the bother.

So, on return to Huddersfield, shattered, I researched 4WARD PROMOTIONS and the second suggestion in google.com was, quite unbelievingly, "4ward promotions scam".

So, I had been targetted by a recruitment scamming agency and given a completely false job perception of what I'd be doing. But what shocked me more was that there are 100+ agencies like this in the UK who are targetting the unemployed in a desperate plot to get more staff members.

Theses people put their jobs on jobsites under popular searches e.g. admin, fashion and retail, sales and marketing etc. and tell you that you're going to be promoted to manager in a year, earning 100,000s of pounds per annum, and that you're in a stable office envornment.

FALSE.

You actually turn into one of those poor people on the street who harrass you trying to promote 'high quality' products like Victoria Jackson make-ups (which is actually on the same par as Boots own brand) and it's all on commission.

It's disgusting to think that I nearly got sucked into them and they're praying on desperate unemployed people like me and my friends to do their shitty work for them. I didn't turn up to the all-day interview yesterday and they didn't even ring me to find out where I was. Knobheads.

NAME AND SHAME THESE RECRUITMENT SCAMMING AGENCIES AND STAY AWAY FROM INTERVIEWS ON DICKINSON STREET IN MANCHESTER!