conduit training (assessment) day.....

football man

i have just applied for a job a conduit.(phone services etc)
i then got a phone call and got asked a few questions and then he asked me to come in this wedneday for an assessment day.

i would like to know if anyone as dont this before with conduit or a similar company and if so what am i to expect.
also what should i wear. a suit for an interview or jeans and shirt etc.

thanks for any help given...

BuffyBot

Run like hell would be my advice, but if you must go there..wear a suit or shirt/tie/trousers combo, naturally.

football man

thanks for the advice.
why do u say run like hell. my sister has told me not to work for them..
any reason???

stepbar

Because unless you have the intelligence of a monkey you would run and very fast. Honestly they really assume stupidity.

invadernim

Conduit have a really bad rep as employers. I have known a couple of people who have worked for them and a few people in my current job came from Conduit. None of them have ever had a good thing to say about them. It seems to be the standard policy in that company to assume that if employees are not constantly monitored, pressured & watched that they will burn the building down. Very oppresive place to work from what I hear.

Dord

they'll steal yer soul I tells ya!

seriously, don't go to work for them. I worked there for 9 months. The only good thing was my co-workers, some great people.

Wages are low, although these have been put up (by a VERY small amount) in the last week or two.

TBH, I wore a hoody, combat trousers and skate runners when I went there first.

Basically if you do wish to go I'll just explain what will happen.
Meet in the reception, introduced to HR people. You'll be brought to a room on one of the other floors for a talk about the company etc. General spelling tests, VERY general geography test. pretty easy stuff, you'd have to be a potato not to get this.
They'll bring you back down to the ground floor and tell you to sit in the canteen. You'll individually be brought up for interviews. There will be several interviewers. While the rest of the people are waiting in the canteen they will get people to do typing tests on the computers in the canteen. yadda yadda yadda. Then they'll bring everyone up to the most soul destroying floor in the building to listen to calls. You'll see what I mean. I used to work there. I'm not mentioning the name of the company tbh, I wouldnt like for their customers to know where they're calling.

Lastly they usually do a general tour of the floors in the building.

I just realised you might not see this, but whatever. More people will hopefully!