Good thread. very informative. i hv recently went to one of the interviews conducted by the cobra group subsidiaries near klcc...on purpose. After reading so many scam stories in this thread, i m lured to 'check out 'these kind of companies. another reason for me doing so was becoz i was demn bored waiting for my job to start with an oil & gas company. hehe

so, what i did was find any job ads in jobstreet that has the criterion of possible scammers mentioned in this thread. then, i sent my resume. and just my luck, i was called for their first interview. the first interview was so easy one. they just asked me to intro myself. and then filled in one questionnaire that bears questions such as why u want to take the job. btw, the job offered is for management trainee post.

after a few days, i was called for a second interview. since i got nothing to do that day so i agreed and came at 10am. while waiting for the 'interview' to start, they gave me some pamphlets. i was also told that this second interview will take 5 hours as we were going to be assigned to their sales team and do some work. i began to raise an eyebrow at the time.

i immediately shuffled through the pamphlets and handouts. and stiffled my laughter. there r misspellings and wrong formatting everywhere. surely good companies will not hv such mistakes in their documents, right? furthermore, i found out that the team was lead by a 21-year-old diploma holder, who named his team members with weird nicknames. and there they r, saying that they r conducting their business in professional manner. its pretty hard to buy that claim seeing that they hv a 21-year-old as a leader and all the employees have stupid nicknames which they printed on their brochures.

as i looked around at the anxious and hopeful faces of other candidates...i started 2 pity them. i wonder if these ppl know what they r about to get into. and as i read the handouts, i had a good guess on what we were going to do for 5 hours that day: selling credit cards. free labour for them, i suppose?

so, without further ado, i simply walked out of the office with the handouts still in my hands. i hv had enough information about this company. i hv scoured the information on this company through their website a few days earlier. with this secondary information that i obtained teamed up with my first hand experience, this company is not a working place as it describes in its adverts. unless u r really desperate for a job, then this company shud be avoided. but what saddened me most is how this company exploits fresh grads by luring them to do direct selling, disguising it as 'management trainee'. and for goodness sake, this company is included in the Graduan handbook sold nationwide. buy the 2005 edition, u'll find an article about it.

many of my frens r unemployed now. and i m lucky enuff to be employed after a mth of graduation. i hope those fresh grads out there to always be aware of these kind of company. if u know what u r getting into, its ok. thats y, b4 going to any interviews, make some research on the company first.

This post has been edited by haiku: Mar 5 2006, 04:27 PM