Anyone heard of FMR solutions?

durham_girl

I've just been on the jcp website and come across an ad for a company called FMR solutions. They're looking for wildlife fundraisers ie going door to door. I looked on their website and it doesn't seem very professional so I'm a bit wary of giving them my details.

Anybody here had any dealings with them?

lkmc01

did you apply. I am also considering applying? Do you know if you can work alternate weeks? one week 5 evening and Saturday and the following week nothing?

CALGACUS

Hi, I saw this in my local Job Centre Plus too.

Has anyone had any experience of working for them?

I would normally think that it was the usual door-to-door/commission only/OTE <insert unlikely sum here> 'opportunity', except that the website states that they will pay their representatives minimum wage (+ commission). They also say that it's only after you have worked for them for six weeks that they will permit you to move to higher commission only earnings (but only if you wish). They also claim that they will pay any travel expenses that their recruiters incur.

From the website: first six weeks - OTE £10/hour (minimum wage + commission)

week seven on: continue as above, or move to commissin only - OTE £800-1200/month.

I don't know if I would have the nerve to ring doorbells, even if it is (as they claim) extremely low pressure.

[STRIKE]This is the link if anyone is interested[/STRIKE] (it looks like a local website for Central Scotland - based in Midlothian), presumably yours durham_girl is local to you?

Ah, I'm too new a user to post links , oh well!

I'd still be interested to hear from any other board members who may have encountered this company.

CAL.

katyk_2

I too am interested in finding out more about this as they seem to have flooded the job centre with ads for practically every area of the UK, including mine. Very wary of going for something like this as I am unemployed at present and would not want to scupper benefits over something which would come to nothing. Also, I am on foot so have to feel I would run out of prospective candidates relatively quickly as could not cover too large an area.
Anyone know why it must always be evenings? Granted you would get a lot of people in then but there are also people around in daytime (mums, shift workers, etc)

Any feedback from anyone who had tried this would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Katyk

ecosassenach

I worked for them - they were genuine and my earnings exceeded those stated and I was paid reliably and on time. Although there's no sales pressure involved, it was hard work sometimes and you could never really be sure what' was going to happen, when you went out door knocking. I worked in nice, middle class areas, so I rarely had any bother. Even though the work was done in a very respectful way, some members of the public were rude, but you'll meet rude people wherever you work with the public!

It 'was very satsifying when you came across someone who agreed to give money to the charity on an ongoing basis - especially if you're in tune with what the charity does! I wouldn't recommend this type of work unless you really genuinely wish to help the charity involved, as I think the money you can earn is never by itself going to be enough to motivate you to do the work succesfully.

I had also previously worked for another fundraising agency doing door to door work and I was trained to "sell" the charity and manipulate people into saying yes to a direct debit - even if they had already told you they were'nt interested.

At least with FMR, if people said no thanks, you accepted that and moved on.