Is this too good to be true?? Advice Please.

slickc2100

I have applied for a position as a IT Trainee position. I attended a screening assessment and have since recieved an email advising I have been successful..I have no IT experience and therefore have been told I need to carry out a training programme which costs £1400.00. The employer is willing to pay £700.00 . I have to pay £150.00 upfront and the remainder monthly. The job is due to start around Feb-March, but the training is done beforehand..The training is through a company called Melbourne Technologies. Once employed my starting salary is £18k rising to £25k+ in year2 depending on performance. I have since seen there is quite a few vacancies for a position as such. Has anyone done something similar or is too good to be true???

Any advice truly appreciated.

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notanewuser

Sounds like a scam. Avoid like the plague.

slickc2100

I did think it sounds quite fishy, however when I went for my screening assessment ( as they call it), it seemed a really professional place an uptown highly maintained office, and there website looks really legit as well.

Tiglath

Anyone can rent a posh brass-plate office though - especially if they have people giving them money hand over fist every month. I agree it sounds like a scam.

slickc2100

Can anyone check whether a website is legit or or not??...This is their website http://www.kineticresource.com/home

jobseeking_help

slickc2100 wrote: »

I have applied for a position as a IT Trainee position. I attended a screening assessment and have since recieved an email advising I have been successful..I have no IT experience and therefore have been told I need to carry out a training programme which costs £1400.00. The employer is willing to pay £700.00 . I have to pay £150.00 upfront and the remainder monthly. The job is due to start around Feb-March, but the training is done beforehand..The training is through a company called Melbourne Technologies. Once employed my starting salary is £18k rising to £25k+ in year2 depending on performance. I have since seen there is quite a few vacancies for a position as such. Has anyone done something similar or is too good to be true???

Any advice truly appreciated.

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Slick

By all means follow it through but don't part with any readies. If any one guarantess you employment be incredibly suspicious.

As more people become increasingly desperate so there inevitably will be more sharks to make a killing.

Ask to speak directly to people who have been through this training and are now in employment

agrinnall

Melbourne Technologies certainly claim to offer training courses, although their website has only been registered since August and it looks like they may have been called Echo IT Training at some point. Actually, I've delved a bit deeper and it's a copy of the Echo website, which was itself registered in 2010 but both have the same address in Birmingham.

The question is, who is it that will employ you after you have done the training? Is it Melbourne themselves, is it whoever has advertised the trainee position, or is it just that the advert says you'll get a job without guaranteeing anything? I would certainly be wary of handing over any money without getting some more answers.

theoretica

It looks fishy to me. Melbourne Technologies has only been registered as a company since April which adds to my doubt.

theoretica

And the director of Melbourne Technologies is also the director of a company registered at the same time called Kinetic 3 ltd...

slickc2100

jobseeking_help wrote: »

Slick

By all means follow it through but don't part with any readies. If any one guarantess you employment be incredibly suspicious.

As more people become increasingly desperate so there inevitably will be more sharks to make a killing.

Ask to speak directly to people who have been through this training and are now in employment

I have tried to google but cannot seem to find anything...Where would I find someone who is working for them??? There offices are (apparently) nationwide,..And if its not a scam I don't want to lose such a good job offer.:o

hcb42

scam......!!