FDM Group reviews

Sign off process: You can train for 6 months+ without pay. This training is mainly self-taught. When you get signed off you have to allow FDM 3 months to find you an interview for a job. If at the end of 3 months they find you nothing only then you can leave without owing them anything. The risk: You may have to attend their office 9-5:30 for 9 months and get nothing or get something that you don't want. You may work at a reputable organisation, but by having FDM as your agent any benefits such as pay rises, and promotions don't come your way. If you are happy with the work that FDM found you and your employer is happy with you, the employer may wish to take you on permanently at the end of your 2 years with FDM. In such a situation you would not be allowed to apply for a job with the company that you worked at. The employer would have to deal with FDM. FDM would charge the company a substantial sum of money to sign you, even if your 2 years with FDM has ended. In such a situation the company may decide that they don't want to pay your agent a signing on fee.

- Training is basic to say the least classroom based with trainers who don't really understand the role. - £20,000 debt is what you end up with from the training if u leave at any time before the end of two years, that is only just off the price of university fees. - If you don't get a placement then you have to still attend your nearest academy and they still don't pay you. This means that if you pay travel costs and don't get placed for 3 months after you have completed training then you still have to pay to get there which for me would have cost a further £900 on top of the initial £900 to cover the training itself. - when you get placed you have to sort out your own living costs. - No guarantee of a job after training. - No security with the job. - No loyalty to trainees. Considering that people are there products the treatment of staff is awful and the seem to have no empathy for people.