Fitness first interview - personal trainer.

Don't say you were influenced by the exercise regime of Patrick Bateman

I had to Google him - I evidently don't go to the cinema enough .

Hi, has anyone had experience of a phone interview with fitness first or a phone interview in general?

Also, has anyone who has done the personal trainer course got any opinions of it, or advice?

Thanks

How did your interview go or did you have it? i have one tomorrow and I have no idea what it's going to be like. They gave me a link with possible questions or info on the interview but it wasn't working

I would advise you to be very cautious. They charge you £3,000 for the training course - they did not mention this at all in their advertisement. I grew suspicious after Googling them because the opportunity seemed way too good to be true. They claim that they will train you in 6 weeks and you will have a guaranteed job at one of their fitness centres afterwards. They just want money out of people. Just be very careful. Even if I had the money I wouldn't give it to them. My university tuition fees were £3,000 a year. Fitness First asked me for £3,000 for a 6 week course - that is insane.

If you Google it you will find others who have had the same experience - I just wish I'd Googled it sooner and not wasted my time applying and getting interviewed.

Edit: Just in case anyone decides to do the phone 'interview' - it's not an interview at all to be honest.They basically talk at you about how great Fitness First is and they tell you where your local centre is and ask if that would be an okay distance for you to travel. The only 'interview' type question that I was asked was 'so you want to be a personal trainer?' - well of course since that's what I applied for! The phone 'interview' felt more like one of those telemarketing calls - they were trying to sell basically and didn't give me much opportunity to speak. When she finally gave me chance I asked her if there were any costs and she started talking about other stuff. I had to asked her about costs three times before she gave me a direct answer. At that point I politely ended the phone call lol.