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Michael
Did not help me get a job at all they just tried to convince me to buy an online course
Based on my experience I do not believe this is a legitimate recruitment agency They did not help get me a job instead they tried to convince me to sign up for a 358 online course When I did not sign up for the course I never heard back from them Here is my experience with Recruitment Central They called me up and said they found my CV on Reed and I was told to look on their website and look at the jobs available I identified a role I was interested in and a few days later I had a screening call with them - they told me that I was an excellent candidate but would need to strengthen my application with some official certifications in finance They told me to go sign up for the Introduction to UK Financial Regulation Professional Integrity course at cifa ac which costs 358 and then I could add this certification to my CV and they would submit my application to the job I was interested in I was suspicious so I searched the name of this specific course on Reddit and discovered that other people had the same experience with Recruitment Central - apparently there are also other fake recruitment companies all running this same scam to try to sell people expensive courses from CIFA Another one of these companies is City Jobs UK - their website has the same jobs as Recruitment Central these exact same jobs have been there for months Another is Recruit Direct - the reviewers on Trustpilot all had the same experience as I did with Recruitment Central Needless to say I did not sign up for the course and I never heard from Recruitment Central again Some more evidence they are not legit - The recruiter wasn t able to tell me the name of the company that was hiring for the position They made up some excuse about privacy but I don t see how it would be a problem for me to know the name of the company I am applying to work at - They have essentially no presence on LinkedIn I couldn t even find the two recruiters I was in contact with Surely a recruitment company would have some kind of presence on LinkedIn or at the very least their recruiters would have profiles - All the reviews on Trustpilot are clearly fake They are all 5 stars they are all written in the same way and they are all from accounts with obviously fake names and no other reviews