FDM Group reviews

While most of the training is good, the training FDM provides to familiarize trainees with the finance world is inadequate. They did not seem to have anyone qualified enough to teach finance basics during my time there. Important to stress that FDM does not guarantee you employment, they shop your resume/CV to companies and facilitate interviews. They are supposed to keep on putting your resume out there until you get placed. As someone in management told me: "it's our job to get you a job". In my case, I did get some interviews but was never placed. After my sign off from training (4 months in), I no longer had to attend the training facility every day. From this point on FDM never contacted me for anymore interviews. No reason was given for this, the interviews just stopped coming in for me. There can be many legitimate reasons why this occurred; but none of the sales people or anyone in management ever bothered to offer an explanation. They just continued to ignore emails sent to them. I have witnessed many trainees get placed with companies so It is obviously not a scam; it just appears to me that the process does not work for everybody.

once you finish training, the office will demotivate and force you to go for any job, any role and any location. if you dont take that regardless of circumstances, they'll threaten to sue you. They'll ALWAYS blame you and point the finger at you even if senior management or account managers are to blame. Help with relocation is non existent and they could tell you that you'll be at a firm for 12 months, but fdm will say that you are needed back after a month for no reason (lose house deposit) For every sick day, you lose £75 per day. They could give you a start date but they'll keep changing it until you start around a month after the original start date. Guys will be told they have interviews but they end up being removed from those lists because they are adding girls to interviews even if the girls don't match the job spec.(sexist) For 9/10 interviews, you won't have a job spec, or even know what you will be doing in that role until after your interview. Account managers see every trainee as 'walking commission'