Tdr connect?

snaraloo

Hi there, was just wondering if anyone recently went to an interview with this crowd. They rang me this morning and arranged one but the website is very vague on what they do. It's sounds like they used to be Mahon Enterprises and I've heard enough bad reviews on them! If anyone has any more information on them I'd appreciate it
Thanks

jdaly001

TDR Connect is misleading, they are advertising Jobs, but no one gets a proper job.

You do an interview, you are told you need to do a trial the next day, then you find out its door to door sales.
wait it get better.
You are not getting a job, you are then told our are self employed and earning a commission and they provide free training.

My son started with these, he would leave the house at 7:30am and arrive home 12:15 last bus, after working 6 days including training he earn €30 with cost of €12 per day x 6 days. So to earn €30 it cost him €72 and 6 days from 7:30 to 12.15.

TDR are getting around the minimum wage law by telling their job applicants they will be self employed, you are not employed by TDR Connect and it looks like a total waste of time.

Companies dealing with TDR Connect should review their relationship with TDR Connect, I would go a far as to suggest TDR Connect are exploiting young workers who have never worked and don't understand their personal taxes never mind running their own business and making these tax returns.

snaraloo

Glad I didn't go to the interview so! When I rang the reception looking for more information she was very hostile and wouldn't tell me anything so I figured it would be a door to door sales job.. Thanks for the info

jdaly001 wrote: »

TDR Connect is misleading, they are advertising Jobs, but no one gets a proper job.

You do an interview, you are told you need to do a trial the next day, then you find out its door to door sales.
wait it get better.
You are not getting a job, you are then told our are self employed and earning a commission and they provide free training.

My son started with these, he would leave the house at 7:30am and arrive home 12:15 last bus, after working 6 days including training he earn €30 with cost of €12 per day x 6 days. So to earn €30 it cost him €72 and 6 days from 7:30 to 12.15.

TDR are getting around the minimum wage law by telling their job applicants they will be self employed, you are not employed by TDR Connect and it looks like a total waste of time.

Companies dealing with TDR Connect should review their relationship with TDR Connect, I would go a far as to suggest TDR Connect are exploiting young workers who have never worked and don't understand their personal taxes never mind running their own business and making these tax returns.

jdaly001

snaraloo wrote: »

Glad I didn't go to the interview so! When I rang the reception looking for more information she was very hostile and wouldn't tell me anything so I figured it would be a door to door sales job.. Thanks for the info

I would warn other about these types of job offers, put it up in facebook and twitter

Jummi

Got an interview with Tdr connect too!.. I was told to come in the next day for a trail I was really excited thinking I was possibly going to be working in an office. I get there the next day only to find out that we will be doing a door to door sales!.. Oh it gets better, we weren't told this till we got on the train going to Newbridge Kildare!, i had to pay for my own train fair. Tdr are manipulative sly company. I was offered a last interview which would get me the "job", i turned kt down after I was forced to make my way back to Dublin on my own. Never again!.. If something is too good to be true, it normally is. Stay away from Tdr connect!!

K_KC

If anyone has an interview for TDR CONNECT company DO NOT GO!!
IT IS A SCAM!!!

I found them on recruit Ireland - advertised as 'Junior Marketing ' but when i went to the second round of interviews I was disgusted. Firstly we were as to go in to a training day 10am till 7.30pm and at the end of the day we would find out if we received the position or not. There were 11 of us with a team leader per 2 people. On meeting my team leader I found him rude and arrogant as he was questioning myself and the other guy who we were told we needed to 'impress'.

We met in there office on Cork street and walked to Dame st. the whole time being quizzed by this arrogant man who was trying to sound smart saying business and marketing facts but really he was making stuff up. I started to get irritated by the amount of questions asking us so many things like we were having an oral business exam, so I asked what will we actually be doing today as in my interview the day before I was told we would be working in an office. He said we were going to a residential area to market the clients products. So Basically Door-to-door sales, FOR commission which he would make from the 11 of us as we had signed a form to say we were voluntary for the training day and would receive no money. He also had told us previously that the hold interviews EVERY DAY. This is complete exploitation so so not go to the interview!!

Shadooby

Had an interview with this crowd today, thought their office location was a bit odd and when I asked questions about wages and working hours, the interviewer just said that I would be informed of it on my trial day. I wasnt told anything about them apart from what was already on their website and that just made me suspicious. I wasted my lunch break to go to this "interview" Glad I found some info on here about them, wont be wasting my time with the trial!

Gracex

I got a call from TDR this morning about an interview for tomorrow. I've been doing my research like many others and I'm shocked and discussed I thought this was my big break. I applied for customer service agent, which they said was in their dublin office. I'm really unsure what to do, maybe this will be legit , after all it's customer service and not marketing or sales. I would love to hear back from previous candidates as to what role they applied for and am I in for the same fate as the rest?

Shadooby

I applied for Customer Service too. What address did they give for where you are going for the Interview?
Mine was somewhere near The Liberties, just before Coombe hospital.

Vag

Gracex wrote: »

I applied for customer service agent, which they said was in their dublin office. I'm really unsure what to do, maybe this will be legit , after all it's customer service and not marketing or sales.

From their website:

"TDR Connect Ltd is one of Ireland’s leading providers of outsourced face to face sales and marketing to a diverse range of clients." [emphasis added]

So yes, I would say it is door-to-door sales, regardless of whatever name they put on it. Sometimes these companies say, 'Sales representative, brand ambassadors,' etc. All door-to-door sales.

The pixelated logo on their website is cringe-worthy

Gracex

Shadooby wrote: »

I applied for Customer Service too. What address did they give for where you are going for the Interview?
Mine was somewhere near The Liberties, just before Coombe hospital.

Yeah that's where mine is too. Marketplace dublin 8 , something like that.
What was your interview like? We're they offering you a job doing door 2 door sales too ?

Vag

Gracex wrote: »

We're they offering you a job doing door 2 door sales too ?

A more useful way of looking at these companies is not that you are being interviewed for, or being offered a job as such....but rather you are being sold a job. As soon as you submitted your CV - you got the job. These are salespeople with an extremely high turnover of staff. Go onto jobs.ie every day for a week and you will see exactly that; advertisements saying, 'apply today, start tomorrow - no experience required.' They will always need staff because people do not stick around very long in these roles.

Shadooby

What Vag said there!

It wasnt much of an interview more so of just telling me to come in the next day so that I could have a Trial day on the job.
After finding this post here I also found another post on Reddit with more about what the job was with someone who had gone through with it.

I did see TDR show up on my jobs searches every day and still do.

Shadooby

Let us know how the interview went if you did go Grace.

Gracex

I didn't bother going to the interview , I knew it was just gonna be the same as everyone elses experiences. Back to the drawing board for me. Thanks for all your help.