Desperate graduates charged £380 for training contract "help"
10 September 2010
A new "service" has been launched to help desperate training contract candidates. For a one off, non refundable payment of just £380, an anonymous "consultant" will apparently apply to firms on their behalf.

The business, using the imaginatively named www.getatrainingcontract.com website, claims to have been set up in 2007 and "due to its rapid success" to have been incorporated in 2009. The extent of this success isn't entirely clear - there doesn't seem to be a single example on the site of anyone ever having actually got a job through it. But don't let that put you off. A "team of career consultants and legal professionals" will use their skills to "target thousands of firms" on your behalf. Thousands?

And it seems the site targets those struggling to get a training contact: "Please do not be discouraged if you have obtained a 2.2 in your degree, a large number of our applicants have obtained this grade".

So is it legit or a scam to fleece desperate, unemployable candidates? Well, there are no names on the site, RollOnFriday's emails were unanswered and a lady who answered the phone said that no one was available to talk. So, you will have to draw your own conclusions Sherlock.

Fleeced.

Anyone who's used the service, please write in.