Working as a field interviewer for Ipsos MORI

I worked for them 2 years ago for 6 months

I'm an experienced field worker and have worked for many research companies, I would never work for IM again

Never will you make what they say

You are given a job with X amount of hours allocated to it. So let's say they want 22 interviews, they will say 8 hours. Only each interview takes twice as long as they allocate. You also have to get your target responders, say 5 over 50, 5 under 21, the rest inbetween, but within that you have to have so many of the different sex, plus they need so many of differing social classifications, and in my case, being NI, so many of either Prod or Catholic background

Not easy finding a Prod AB male over 50 on a Catholic council estate

Plus you only get mileage, not travel time unless it's a certain distance away

One study I done I spent over 30 hrs on, in the middle of winter, and pay worked out at something like £4 an hour. Because they pay for the job, not the hours it takes you

Their studies are done on a lap top, and they may run six different studies at a time, usually with a short film or advert. Many responses you have to type word for word. There is just no way you can make targets

I jacked it in when because one day, I was soaking wet, freezing cold, had doors closed on my face all day, that I took an interview in the home of a single male who was paraletic drunk. I was in there over an hour, repeating questions because I was so desperate to hit target. When I left his home, I rang straight in and quit

Other companies I have worked for had realistic targets and paid per interview and were well worth doing. IM recruit all year round as most people who do the training only last until the assisted pay ( first three studies) is over