NonStop Consulting
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NonStop Consulting has 1.7 star rating based on 5 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly dissatisfied.
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A wrecking ship…
Very low commissions for the first couple of years. You are pushed to work regularly 12 hours everyday and to come to work even at the weekend, you'll live your life through the phone and you will be expected to make something like 80-100 calls and 4-5 hours or more on the phone everyday in a very stressful Orwellian environment where every action and call you make is monitored; this situation doesn't change progressing in your career, in fact it worsens...
The company notoriously had have problems in presenting clearly the contract terms to graduates...making them have unrealistic expectations about salary, accommodation, time required to move from Pardubice office to another and even about the kind of contract offered...
Crucially, the number of people leaving every month is higher than the number of new inexperienced people joining...
All this clearly points to a negative future outlook for the company...
Funny blog
This blog is an interesting read and greatly entertaining because some things are true and others are out of proportion.
I worked at the company for a long time and the things I am going to say are the truth.
Recruitment is not easy, it's cut throat and basic sales.
I think Kevin (the owner) is a genuine person and he is the first one to put his hands up if things have not gone well; but I also think it takes a while for things to get around to him.
I do believe the micro-management in the day to day work is over-obsessive and it drives people away, not just newcomers but also long standing staff.
Expect to be treated like a child whether you know the job or not.
The Czech situation is not a scam, but it’s built in the company’s interest; any company works for profit so you can clearly see that the program is in place to make the company succeed.
On some of the points I am not going to comment because I am not sure what the deal is with the new people coming into the business but I can clarify the following:
2- Accommodations arranged when you get there
The first accommodation is not great, but the flats you get moved to after are better.
3- Ability to earn from day one.
It depends on how sharp you are, it took me longer than that, because some people get it straight away and others (like me) take a while to understand the process
4 After 6 months at Czech Republic the ability to transfer to any of the other European offices including London
This is not entirely true, it takes longer because you need to be a biller that can pay for his desk cost. They won’t pay for you to move to London if you don’t make money (again it’s sales don’t expect to be treated well if you don’t perform)
5- Award winning training scheme
Anyone can win an award, I think McDonalds has won awards for best employer, but no one wants to work there
6- Taking on 10 people a month as they have just recently started expanding
Turnover is high because not everyone can take the pressure, or they don’t perform
7- the commission scheme
Any junior recruitment role pays very little, and what you are not told is that you are only paid the month that the candidate start the new job
8- the location
Small town 2 hours from Prague, it depends it does it for some and not for others
9- accommodation
Refer to point 2
Overall I can say I learned a lot. I don’t like a lot of people at the company or the motto but we all know that the perfect job does not exist.
I think that if the overall opinion is that the company is a scam people shouldn’t worry because if that is the case it will fail.
What I have written is from direct experience, and if you don’t like sales don’t apply for the job.
In addition to that the fat guy that swears at people is no longer there. (as I said when things get to Kevin he sorts them)
I hope this helps to clarify things.
Lying cheats at nonstop recruitment pardubice
SO GLAD I FOUND THIS ARTICLE!
I was preparing for an assessment day but wanted to do some research first and this article is so true. On reed the salary is £25k but when I asked him to confirm this he got a little stuttery.
Then he explained how they actually mean 25,000 of Czech currency a month which is not a lot.
Who cares if the cost of living is less in that country, I'm British and if you tell me to expect £25,000 basic that's what i want not a few hundred pound. STOP LYING TO VULNERABLE GRADS YOU skum PEOPLE!
- Lies
stop lying to vunerable grads
Nonstop recruitment scam pardubice Czech Republic
This is one big scam and lie from the very first phone call. Ill start with the basics.
Here's what you are told:
1- £12000 salary basic
2- Accommodations arranged when you get there
3- Ability to earn from day one.
4 After 6 months at Czech Republic the ability to transfer to any of the other European offices including London
5- Award winning training scheme
6- Taking on 10 people a month as they have just recently started expanding
7- the commission scheme
8- the location
9- accommodation
10- Assesment day
And now the truth:
1- The salary is £822 but you are actually left with £394 a month. Read below.
2- Was told on the phone first month accomodation will be sorted and the following months we pay around £200 a month for an apartment. But when you get there they through you in the rooms which are nowhere near the level of an apartment it's just a room above a bar. For this they charge you 7000czk and then after tax you are expected to live on £394 a month. Which gets paid into a bank account which you have to open at a bank they tell you which just works out to be a friend of the company. Coincidence?
3- B*llsh*t. From day one you are doing surveys just calling pervious candidates to see get some feedback. You cannot make money from day one doing this. Then if you pass this your will be promoted to resourcer. I will go into all that below
4- Nobody on the grad bay or any of the resources has been here longer than 3 months. Infact only 3 people have been here 3 months. So you will get fired before getting close to 6 months and googleing these office you will find they don't or hardly exist. They tell you we have offices everywhere. The Switzerland office is maybe around 4 people max. The London office where they send everyone back after 6 months has around 8 staff there as you'll see on your assessment day.
5- This is the best part. I was expecting an award winning scheme. In fact it's just a fat bloke swearing and telling us how rich he is. Although his attire disagreed with him. He referred to vegetarians as a bunch of gays on the first day which is offensive to both and very unprofessional. The award they won could not be verified as I tried hard to locate this on google and his foul mouth is just irritating shouting at fellow colleagues on just day 2 for asking simple questions. I've received better training in customer service roles and expect this award is totally fabricated.
6- THIS IS WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW!!! To save your time and money. Youre told Recently they have started taking on 10 people a month to expand. NO! If you youtube nonstop recruitment you will find there is a video from Feb 2011 and they have been doing this same scheme since then. So they tell you there is around 100 in the office but really there is around only 50-60. If that there true there would be a much bigger volume of staff but the truth is that they have been taking on 10 people a month for the last few years, make you do all the auditing and resourcing work for the consultants and then send you packing. Literally.
7- so you can earn from day one. And you can be a consultant in 2 months. Hmm, well there are consultants in one corner of the room who will not even say hi to you. My opinion is they have been informed to stay away from us as they are in on the scam. Make us resource all their work and then say goodbye. So how commission works. If you place a candidate, you get . . . . £100 fixed. What a joke. Also it is very difficult to place regardless wether you are a trainee or experienced. While I was there there were 3 people who had been there 3 months, 4 who's been there 2 months and 10 who arrived this month. From all these only one has placed. He brought them around 9000k of business and seen £200 from it on top of his £394. While a consultant took the lion share. People I had spoken to we're dying to come home but literally could not afford to fly home. (ps. Nobody had been there longer than 4 months on the grad bay and also nobody but one had placed a candidate)
8- Pardubice location is really a dead town with nothing to do. There is a couple of bars but this is obviously nothing to do with nonstop recruitment and not they're fault. But they do lie on the distance from prague. They say one hour but really it's like almost 2 hours.
9 Accommodation- like a 2 star hotel in lanzagrotty. They over charge you for it, while first wording it in a way that makes you think its free. After first month you move into another apartment of theirs and have no say on which one. Basically treated like more of a kid.
10- Assesment day at London office. If you go have a look at number of staff and work out how they are sending all the completed trainees back here at end of the month is impossible as there is only 10 computers in the office. Portsmouth and Glasgow offices hardly exist according to google.
They tell you on phone interview you've done really well to get this far but they literally accept anyone who speaks English . But even at my Assesment day there was a few who just about speak English.
Overview is you will be there for a maximum 3 months on £394 a month then you will get sacked. You pay for your own flights so if you use your head you would avoid this scam. Most of the people who went there were like me and had been applying everywhere and using this as a last resort but honestly you will come back in a worse position regardless of your situation.
AND THIS IS WHERE THE WHOLE SCAM MAKES SENSE!!
***The EU Funding***
They receive a fundgrant for every British expat they bring the the Czech Republic which obviously must get paid within the three 3 months you're there so you're there 3 months doing a consultants dirty work before they get their grant and send you home. This is the simple key point and the main factor in my eyes. They say this is a new expansion yet the YouTube video provides key evidence to prove they have been doing this for a very long time.
Hamza Hashim- very unprofessional!!!
Hamza Hashim- very unprofessional
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I wonder if any improvements have been made to their scam after this post.
Would be nice to see some action here again :)
I have been invited to Assessment days in Brussels for next week. I highly doubt that I will be going there now.
glad I read this before writing an application, *** scam company. The positive reviews are so fake that even a baby can see its ingenuity. Thanks for warning for me!
A wrecking ship…
Very low commissions for the first couple of years. You are pushed to work regularly 12 hours everyday and to come to work even at the weekend, you'll live your life through the phone and you will be expected to make something like 80-100 calls and 4-5 hours or more on the phone everyday in a very stressful Orwellian environment where every action and call you make is monitored; this situation doesn't change progressing in your career, in fact it worsens...
The company notoriously had have problems in presenting clearly the contract terms to graduates...making them have unrealistic expectations about salary, accommodation, time required to move from Pardubice office to another and even about the kind of contract offered...
Crucially, the number of people leaving every month is higher than the number of new inexperienced people joining...
All this clearly points to a negative future outlook for the company...
I have been offered an interview for this company I can see very mixed reviews, I am 18 and I am very anxious if offered this position please can someone tell me exactly what happened from there experience so I know whether to pursue this opportunity?
They are scam.If you follow them on reed you could see they post same adverts every second day, organize assessment center day every Thursday, and send people to Czech Republic every month. If it was a legitimate company, there would be no need for such rotation unless you run big corporations.
The business model is clearly designed to take advantage of graduates. It's definitely something for police to investigate.
Hi I am the original poster. Never knew this page would have so much interest.
Just to update I searched up most of the people I remember from my training group on LinkedIn and absolutely none of them are still at this place thank god. So it's definitely not a career.
Also I found that the negative reviews on here are written woth normal day to day Internet style writing, yet the positive reviews are written in such a professional business "admin" manner its kind of obvious what you scammers at non stop are doing lol. Writing your own reviews.
Inventing your own awards. Grow up guys and stop ruining Peoples lives and careers and giving them false hopes!
I was interested in this company but having seen your message I am a little concerned. I applied at 11pm and promptly received an email at 9am the next morning telling me "what a great match I was".
I am also a reporter so I would like to speak to those who have been through the experience or know someone who has, not just for my own benefit but if it really is a "scam" as many people are saying, I can put this on a national newspaper. Unfortunately it is easy for anyone to post anonymously - ex-employees and current staff, so I am looking to get a real idea of peoples' experiences from both sides.
Please could you email me at michael.taylor4@newcastle.ac.uk
Thank you
Total Scam and they are ***. Avoid and report to the police, they will be shut down soon.
All positive testimonials on here are by the fraudsters of the company and not genuine.
Thanks for the information on this company. I had an Assessment day with NonStop coming up soon but considering there has been quite a few negative experiences i'm going to cancel, and also share this page on fb and twitter so others can see. Such a shame that people get away with this stuff.
The original Poster does not understood currency, economics, the recruitment industry and has a very concerning interpretation of time.
£400 a month, in Czech currency (the Czech Rep. is not a part of the Euro single currency), is plenty to live off in this country.
The cost of living is ridiculously low and beer is in fact cheaper than mineral water. Some places as low as 22 Kc (that's about 60p).
A mahooosive pizza and a glass of beer at a restaurant in Pardubice will set you back around 175Kc (that's about £5). For lunch some places offer set menus at set prices for 85kc and you get a very good portion (especially when it's a pasta dish).
£400 maybe be a pittance in the UK, but out here it's more than satisfactory.
Also, the train station at Pardubice is well connected to main rail arteries throughout Europe.
It takes you to Prague, Munich, Vienna, Bratislava etc and it only takes an hour on the train to get to Prague.
Pardubice is small for a city but is a very charming medieval location. It has a huge leisure centre (you get free gym and swimming pool access through the company) one of the best ice hockey teams in the country and even an American football team that you can play for. Recruitment is a cut throat industry sometimes. You are essentially a salesperson and you will be expected to make up to, and in excess of, 100 calls a day.
It is not for 9-5ers and you really have to earn your stripes. The reason the London office is small and why the poster is confused that 10 people start with the company every month but yet the number of stuff is still around 200 is because recruitment has a high attrition rate, and a high turnover in personnel because many young graduates who haven't had much experience in full time and employment (and more importantly recruitment) cannot *** the demands of the job in order to succeed. They often return home realising it is not what they want, or because they do not have what it takes to succeed. You cannot expect a company to spend money on a person, who is not productive, indefinitely.
Also, it is quite clear that this is not a scam but the company does not make or ask for anything from you except effort and the correct attitude. You do not hand over a penny. Whereas the company pays for your first month of accommodation, and two welcome dinners. They also supply you with a Czech SIM card complete with £6 of credit and help you open your Czech bank account.
They also spent a lot of money on the taxi to take you from the airport in Prague to Pardubice so that you do not have the stress and hassle of having to make your own way. Scammers are normally opportunists who run a disorganised unsophisticated scheme in order to profit from unwitting individuals. NS actually SPEND money on you and invest in you. They run company events which have open bars (God knows what a bar bill for 200 people must run them).
The staff clearly know what they are doing and have in depth knowledge of very specialist and niche industries, and have very high profile FTSE 500 companies on their client list. Do you really think these companies would want to work with, and have their reputations tainted, by association with a rudimentary scam? This is a case of a kid who wasn't good enough and could not handle the rejection and was looking for someone to blame because he was humiliated that he had to return to England with his tail between his legs. ALso, on the point that NS accepts anyone (because it's a scam) is preposterous.
They run several assessment days a month in which dozens of people attend and yet the intake is only around 10 per month. No-one else from my recruitment day made it through and I have heard managers on the phone informing applicants that they have not been successful. I imagine this poster is occupying his time living in his mother's basement, playing internet chess and listening to Aphex Twin, while working part time pushing trolleys around a supermarket car park. I, however, will be earning big money soon, which will allow me to live like a king in a country as cheap as Czech Republic, while living in the most beautiful city in Europe (Prague).
If you didn't last long at NS, it is likely your fault and you will have to deal with it.
The only second thoughts you should have about NS before applying is whether you have the right mindset to succeed in recruitment, not over whether it is a scam. That accusation is for cowards and those who cannot accept they have limitations.
Aight, so I just spoke with one of them for the first interview. Guy sounded really really friendly and honest, he was from my own country so we used our language: he confirmed everything their ads say (about the city, the life, the parties and so on) and, tbh, I'd expect he told the truth.
He was really specific about the accomodation and the salary, which is what everyone said: around 720 quid per month, while the rent is 150 so you're left with 550£, more or less.
On the other hand: the reviewer is right to say there's no trace on the internet of the award they say they won in 2010. I mean, nowhere you can find a list of the winners, at least via Google. Moreover, on other consumer sites you can find loads of positive comments on the same date: 5 reviews on the 15th of March and then nothing for 6 months looks a bit shady if you ask me.
Bottom line: I can't tell if it's a scam or not, and I probably would have accepted if I was interested in the job in the first place: it's a paid position as an intern, in a different country, who cares if in the rooms there's Sky or not.
The thing is I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like the job: from what I understood it's about calling, calling and more calling, recruit people for (mostly pharmaceutical) companies you know nothing about.
Now that's not my goal in life so I'm gonna let this one go, but if you're really interested in HR you might give it a shot. The worst that could happen is that you hate it there and you run away after a few months, with a (small) amount of money in your pocket but an experience to put in your CV.
SO GLAD I FOUND THIS ARTICLE!
I was preparing for an assessment day but wanted to do some research first and this article is so true. On reed the salary is £25k but when I asked him to confirm this he got a little stuttery.
Then he explained how they actually mean 25,000 of Czech currency a month which is not a lot.
Who cares if the cost of living is less in that country, I'm British and if you tell me to expect £25,000 basic that's what i want not a few hundred pound. STOP LYING TO VULNERABLE GRADS YOU *** PEOPLE!
ok so here we go. sweaty swearing bloke who is full of hot air: true.
lack of totally awesome training program: true. Ability to make 3000-7000 pounds a month in 6 months: false, although it does depend on the shape of the market. *** accommodations: kind of true. Being forced to source for actual recruiters who will mock and scorn you: true.
The reality; recruiting is a deeply disturbing, rough and ugly, street fight of an industry and if you thought anything else when you signed on then you are either delusional or profoundly retarded. It is not for the faint of heart, it is not for the weak, it is not for the lazy, it is definitely not for the airy fairy quasi hipster looking for a cushy ride to the cash machine. If you failed its on you.
And come to think of it maybe Phone Monkey Island is all you would ever be good for anyway, so quit your crying you ponce and go work for an iStyle store.
So let me get this straight.
1. You get a training and get paid same time.
2. After 6 months of training you can start to earn £3 to £7k /month depending on individual potential.
3. You get support in accommodation etc.
4. You Better standard of life i.e. no travel expenses, close to the city square, organised weekend activities( paid by the company) etc.
5. Other recruitment companies would want to hire you just because you have been through this training program.
Why is it that graduates think that the world owe them so much?
Jason, you are 33 year old who came through a graduate scheme,you sure have a successful career.
YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE HARD WORK MATE.
Dear all,
I was working for the company for 3 years but as I'm not NonStop employee anymore, so I can be absolutely honest with all of you.
Please don't believe the statements and comments of people who obviously didn't succeeded in NonStop. Recruitment is very tough business and the fluctuation in recruitment companies is generally very high. It is sales job! The basic salary is not great compare to UK wages but you also need to realize that your expenses will be significantly lower than in UK. (Monthly rent is approximately £230, 2 course lunch in a restaurant is about £3, 1 beer / glass of wine in the bars and restaurants would be £1, etc.)
On the top of that, you can earn absolutely fantastic commission. As far as I know, NonStop Recruitment can offer you still one of the best commission schemes in pharmaceutical recruitment industry. You can realistically reach quite interesting commissions within 3-5 months time.
This job is not for everyone. If your idea is to sit in the office from 8-5pm and have very relaxing and easy job so please don't bother to go anywhere. If you are eager to work very hard, get promoted, earn great money, live abroad and meet lots of cool people, go for it.
There are a few more facts to add:
1. Nonstop have no profit from your accommodation at all! Some flats / houses are quite simple but some of them are absolutely gorgeous and most of the graduates wouldn't be able to afford anything like that in UK.
2. I personally know quite a few people who got quickly promoted and they have been doing very well in Nonstop.
3. You can earn great money in Nonstop.
4. Managers are quite tough sometimes but that's RECRUITMENT!
5. Offices - if you are very good, you have the chance to work from the offices in UK but it is not guaranteed. Many people actually decide to stay in Czech because they simply like it there.
6. Fluctuation is quite big but if you are successful, there is no way that the company will try to get rid of you. Why would they do that? Nonstop is hiring predominantly graduates who still haven't decided what they actually want to do in their life - so fair enough -lots of them will figure out that this is not role for them. But I came across many people who left after 3-4 months but they actually appreciated what the company has done for them and they also appreciated all the skills and experience they gained during their time in NonStop.
7. Unless you speak to somebody who actually understands EU founding vs NonStop (directors, managers, HR or project specialist), please don't believe to any comments here. It is nonsense.
8. Pardubice is beautiful university city full of young people. It is just the matter of taste.
9. For everybody who decided to write the negative comments - please be at least little bit brave and write down your first name.
I feel actually quite sad that somebody had such negative experience with NonStop because my experience is generally very positive about the whole company.
Please don't believe any comments or statements from people who spent there just a few weeks. The company and life style obviously didn't fulfill their expectations and it can happen. On the other hand there are plenty of people who like the company. Some of them have left, some of them have stayed.. I know this is not everybody's cup of tea and moving abroad is very big decision in your life but if you have strong personality and if you work hard, the company will truly reward you.
I will give you an example. If somebody asks you.. "Is London great place for living or is it bad?" which answer would you believe to - " London is the best place for living in the world" or "London is just dirty horrible city"......... My answer would be - "It is down to you!" Here we go... it is the same with NonStop.
I would like to offer my own experience of working at NonStop Recruitment - I have been working at Nonstop for 5 years and I can assure you the company doesn’t run any kind of scam. I started working in the Czech office in Pardubice as part of the Czech support team and I am currently based in the London office. I was quickly promoted to a managerial level and I know for a fact that the company offers true meritocracy for those who do well.
Being a trainee recruitment consultant at NonStop is a challenging experience, it is not for everybody and during my time with NonStop I have seen many people come and go. However, those who take on the training and have the right attitude can do really really well and I have seen that happen many times as well.
As for some of the comments about the Czech Republic – I can compare living in Pardubice and living in the UK and I have always felt a lot safer in Pardubice than I have in the UK. The work-life balance in Czech is much better - this comes from somebody who's done both. In Czech you don’t have to spend hours commuting to work like in the UK, your commute to work usually is a 10-minute walk. Prague is 1-hour away – on the train. If you decide to go by car, it takes longer. I have been to several company flats and they are really nice. The Czech staff in the office are helpful and supportive – I cannot tell you how many times I have answered my phone after working hours or at the weekend, be it to help book a taxi, take somebody to the doctor or assist with translation.
People who are successful are offered a transfer to another office, however quite often they decide against it, as they actually enjoy living in the Czech Republic.
Desperate positive reviews by scam company management. Don't fall for the trap
Please don't let the opening poster and other negative reviewers ruin what could be a fantastic opportunity for anyone who wants a fantastic job in recruitment. I'm not sure what his/her problem is however what he/she is posting is just plain wrong and inaccurate.
They don't use and dispose of you. If you are good enough, take on the training and show the correct attitude, you will be promoted just like in any other company and in my experience Nonstop promote people a lot, lot faster than most companies in the market.
I just don't understand where all the rubbish has come from here. This is a great opportunity to get excellent training, fast progression and good money. Isn't that what all graduates want??
This is coming from a graduate - one of many very happy graduates working for Nonstop in the beautiful Czech Republic and hoping to be promoted in the very near future.
Scam scam scam. They use you and then dispose of you.
My brother went and told me everything. Sounded exactly similar to above. Wasted his money and time. Stay in UK, there is real opportunities here.
The place is apparently a village nowhere near prague. In a dangerous suburb.
furthermore the fact that they are so desperately trying to shut down this page should tell you how much they fear the truth coming out.
They are running a scam and should be treated as such by the EU and the czech government. I sincerely hope there will be a serious investigation on this scam of their since the EU does not have money to give away
I absolutely agree with all that was said above. I too fell for their trap and ended up having to go back home with less money than i started with.
One thing that was not mentioned above is that once they sack you they give you about 3 days to leave the hotel, which makes for a very hard and expensive journey back to the UK.
I also found that Kevin's comments below (one of the top figures in NonStop) are lies to keep this scam going. They make a profit out of the rooms, there is no such thing as sky tv even though they promise it.
On top of that I was told by one of the long term consultants that if you stay in the company long enough they give you back part of what you OVER paid for the accomodation.
As for the training, I found that in comparison with other recruitment agencies it is weak at best, with Pino, the line manager being utterly convinced that NonStop is better than Hays and begging all to try and apply for them should you fail at NonStop.
This is a message to whomever is thinking of joining the company. DO NOT. If you are interested in Recruitment you will find an ocean of companies based in london which are ready to give you training and pay you the 12 k starting salary. DO NOT join NonStop unless you feel like moving to a *** town in Czech, being lied to and abused until the 3 months are up. You will most likely be back home in that time span, with no cash, no real working experience, and most of all wishing that some one would put Pino in his place once and for all
For what it's worth, I'd like to summarise my own personal experience with this company and welcome any questions readers may have related to my time with them.
I'll try to keep it brief.
- I was contacted by one of NonStop's internal recruiters in February of this year and subsequently invited to an assessment day in London. A couple of weeks later I made my way down to the capital from the North East of England and, alongside a diverse group of young graduates and career-shifters, was put through my paces. It was a challenging experience, quite clearly designed to test our durability under pressure, and only a few candidates made it to the end of the day. I was one of the few and was invited to start at NonStop the following month.
:cry Cut through the sour grapes and bitterness :cry
I've been at NonStop for almost 4 months now. I was promoted within 3.
I made my first placement within those 3 months and expect to make more in the immediate future, for which I will receive a junior consultant's percentage. It's been a steep learning curve and there have been times where I've wondered if I could '*** it', as there's an intense, driven atmosphere about the place that, put bluntly, intimidates some people.
The bottom line is this:
- I now have my own market to work in recruitment for the Pharma industry after less than 4 months in this new career.
- I receive superb, structured, on-the-job training from a team manager I respect, like and admire.
- I live with 3 other junior consultants, all under 24, who work, play and party as hard as you can imagine; in a flat with wi-fi, utilities and cleaner all included.
- Oh, and I'm moving to Prague next month to join the team in our new office.
Like I said, I'll keep it brief. i'd just like to offer one final piece of advice to the original poster from our good friend Nietzsche:
"A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others."
Sorry you couldn't *** it.
For some reason the word 'h a c k' is not allowed. Must be a common sore point.
A lot of what you said they would say in the phone call they did actually say. Especially very confusing when it came to salary, they didn't want to give me a definitive monthly wage price.
He actually said 25,000 salary then I asked in what currency and he paused before telling me in the Czech currency which you're right works put as pennies.
Thanks for this post. #Scam
Thanks for the comprehensive insight into this company. I have an interview with them next week, but definitely not going after reading this!
Lucky I didn't go now after reading this :eek
Oh... our top consultant last month, who we trained from scratch will take home (net) - £21,000 this month, I imagine he is not feeling very scammed at the moment. :)
We make no profit on the accommodation, in fact quite a loss, I won't go into great detail here as there are lots of different flats at different prices, generally the accommodation we get is a superior standard to that you see advertised, if you had not been satisfied with your particular allocation all you had to do was raise it as an issue. There are normally some spare rooms in other shared accommodation.
Certainly no one is forced to stay anywhere, and some people prefer to be in the shared accommodation you were allocated and others prefer to flat share or sort their own own accommodation out, which is better for us as we don't have to pay a deposit, pay for damages, cleaning, utilities or vacant periods.
As far as we are concerned looking after accommodation for trainees, is a time consuming, expensive and thankless task, we organise cleaning, English TV, Utilities, Healthcare etc and other things to make the transition easier, and we endeavour to try to help everyone, it's a shame that it didn't work out satisfactorily in your case.
There are two new internal recruiters in the function, we monitor what is said, and have thoroughly reviewed all your comments. Had you raised the issues with us we would have been in a position to discuss this personally with you, we have no reason to mislead anyone, as it does not work out in anyone's best interest in the long term.
Having managers and recruiters fly to London to interview people, organise all the logistics, training etc for it not to work for people isn't our business plan and certainly none of us want to work in a negative environment.
We have discussed this with the staff, and they seem to be happy with the situation and certainly we are not aware of people wishing to leave but can not for any financial reasons.
If you wish to encourage any that are not happy but for some reason did not wish to raise the points with us to discuss with us at least we can resolve any issues, of course we can not do this if they or you yourself do not want to be open.
As previously offered you are welcome to get in touch and put any issues in writing to us and we can put it though our normal process and deal with the matters raised as we would with any external or internal complaint. Failing that we will have to consider the matter closed.
Hope that you find a suitable position in the future that meets your requirements.
Kind regards
Kevin
I'm glad I've got some response from management. To be fair you need to monitor what your two recruiters are telling the new intake.
I was clearly told totally different about the wage as were majority of the group. The reality is you are paid 25000 CZK but as you previous intakes made it clear to us they take home 12000CZK a month after rent. Google 12000CZK its £393.68. The rent for your accommodation is extortionate compared to local prices.
Although I did only work there for a short time,mi spent even more time there researching from the best sources available, your staff, and I didn't want to waste my time.
I do hope you sort everything out which was brought to light so future employees understand everything before packing their life up and moving abroad. All the best and good luck with the future.
Sorry I missed one more point - You are left with just over £400 - when you deduct Taxes, Rent, Utilities, Cleaner, Sky TV etc. That is enough to eat out every single day for lunch and dinner in a restaurant locally and still have spare change for more than enough drinks at the weekend.
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That is absolutely false. You cannot afford that life style with 400 quid, and stop bringing up sky tv.
YOU DO NOT PROVIDE IT.
The rooms are cold and have very little internet in it, you are overcharging for them by a huge margin.
Big scandal don't waste your time with them
I suggest, as per the recent legal communication, which you have now received, that you cease acting in such an irresponsible and libelous way.
Readers, please rest assured that this is merely a disgruntled ex member of staff.
Readers, please be assured, NonStop are a bunch of scam artists and liars.
The statements made above are all true and are only the tip of the iceberg.
Irresponsible and libelous are the way you act towards people's intelligence and honesty.
Great company, great opportunity!! Get a life whoever is posting all this rubbish!!
The above is complete nonsense.
I concur that the above is the reality of this recruitment scam. This is a waste of a graduates time.
Also he/she is correct about the salary. You end up with about £380 a month
Absolutely agree although there are a few points I would like to add but I think this is annaccurate enough account of what happens out there.
Care to expand on what you would 'like to add'?