Does this job sound like a scam (GB Marketing Enterprise Ltd)?

I have seen a job from this company labelled "Graduate Marketing Assistant" with a salary of something like "18-22k basic salary". Yet, when you get there, those things are not the case and the lie is already in the title and salary making it a scam. Can you not see it as it is and admit it or do you actually work for the company?

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Alpha Innova is the same company as GB Marketing. They are at the same address and are probably part of a pyramid scheme. Maybe you had a positive experience but that doesn't mean that I don't know what I'm talking about. Of course they don't force us to stay, how could they possibly do that? They still waste our time inviting us to interviews for jobs that we clearly don't want. They still exploit inexperienced graduates/students by quoting a salary that no one ends up making and the possibility of being promoted to managerial positions. There is a scamming/brainwashing culture within these companies which I find to be very unethical. I spent a lot of time and money trying my hand at one of these sales roles after being tricked into thinking that I would get a regular income. They're getting free labour whereas most of their "employees" are getting nothing.

I saw their most recent review on Glassdoor. Their former employee said that they made staff write some positive reviews for them on Glassdoor to cover up the negative ones. That's shady AF.

Yes I am comparing what they do to others jobs because sometimes people just aren't looking from a logical point of view when I explain what they do. How can you honestly say they are doing wrong unless you have experienced how they work for more than a few days/weeks? And yes they obviously have the funds, otherwise they wouldn't not be making more companies around the country/world the same way and hiring more people who continue to earn money.

But if you don't agree, that's fine. People can continue to complain about what they do without taking any action if they truly believe what they do is morally wrong. If that is the case, do something about it instead of complaining about it online. It's no skin off my nose as I don't work there anymore. It would mean ruining the lives of genuinely good people who make a living much like anyone else, but hey, if it makes you two feel better (as only two people here so far seem to continue to oppose to my viewpoint), again, all the power to you.

I'd rather not discuss this further as it's just truly not worth it anymore. We can agree to disagree and leave it at that.

If you they do have money and great clients, then why not pay at least minimum wage to their "Graduate Marketing Assistants" and the like? I still cannot understand. I am happy to complain online as these keywords crop up in Google, exposing such companies.

You say "It would mean ruining the lives of genuinely good people who make a living much like anyone else,". Well, why aren't these genuinely good people paying recruits appropriate salaries after being advertised as such?

Your justifications are not satisfactory.

How long ago was that and how much work did you do for them? You might still be able to make a legal claim for failure to pay the minimum wage and holiday pay (it may only be a few hundred pounds, but that would be a nice little bonus)



Deffo. These companies are often extremely cynical and quite revolting in exploiting students because university students are often, (1) unaware of their rights and not worldly or sophisticated when it comes to such matters, (2) hardworking and eager so they sell well, (3) they sound trustworthy over the phone (something about a younger voice seeming more benign).

I can't stand companies that engage in this sort of knowing exploitation, I do wonder what kind of person would be involved in them in the recruitment / HR side of things; they earn their base salary (a base salary the company doesn't allow to their salespeople) by essentially lying to students.

Hey I actually went to the interview for these guys. Here is a status I wrote after it happened, might be worth reading.

I applied for two different sales jobs based in Cardiff.
One company called covermoreevents and another called GBmarketingenterprise I think. They both called me the next day after submitting my cv, that itself was a weird experience, one phoned me and arranged an interview, and then the second phoned using the same script with a similar voice and described the place to be in the same area. Turns out both companies are ran by the same people in the same building. Got next day interviews for both in Cardiff.
Turned up there, the first interview was 10 minutes long and the interviewer just asked me questions about my cv and told me nothing about the job and then shook my hand and said if I was successful then they'd call me later for a second interview. And I did get the call and obviously got super excited. They just told me to bring a long a note pad and pen, the phone call was brief and I assumed I'd be just having another interview.
I got there for 8.45 as asked, and in the reception were same four people that were being interviewed the same time as me the day before. Which raised some suspicion as to how picky they really are about the people they call back. They took me into a room to meet a woman who introduced herself as a sort of mentor for the day. She said she was going to take me a long to one of their 'events' to see how I get on.
We got in her car with another person who has recently started to work there, she asked me lots of questions and talked to me about customer service and how they're working for talk talk at the moment. She was very brief about the 'event' and where we were actually going.
She took me to an Asda in Newport, and they set up a stand. And it became clear to me that this 'event' was just these two people, hassling everyone that went in and out of the supermarket to sign up to talk talk with them. They were those annoying people that nobody likes.
I was asked to stand/sit to one side and observe what they do for 3 hours. Whilst they set me very homework like writing tasks about marketing. I was told that if they thought I'd done well they would take me on to the next stage and explain the business to me.
Eventually this happened after looking a bit homeless for a while sat outside Asda. We went into the cafe and they said they were pleased with me, they talked to me some more about the training I'll need and the managerry positions I'll likely end up in. When it came to discussing the pay, they revealed that the company is 100% commissions, meaning the amount of money I make is based on how many sales I make, there is no fixed income. And also told me that the hours are 7.30am-7pm mon-sat. So I'd be working all that time, travelling to and from Cardiff with no guaranteed income, if I had a bad week then I could go home with nothing. Obviously this turned me off completely, I can't work on those terms, I have rent that needs to be paid amongst other things, I need to be certain that I will go home with money in my pocket. (Why they couldn't have explained that on the application I don't know, instead of wasting to much of my time.)
When I told them that commission work isn't for me, they told me that since I wasn't continuing the day them that they couldn't take me back to Cardiff. They couldn't even direct me to a bus stop or train station to get home. I've never even been to Newport before, obviously had a bit of a panic when I realised what had just happened, managed to google maps my way to the train station with not very much phone battery. And get a train back to Swansea, costing me more money since I'd purchased a return ticket to Cardiff that morning.
When I got home a found an email they had sent me at 8.50am (after I'd already arrived) explaining what the second 'interview' actually involved. Which obviously would've been a lot more useful the night before so I could prepare myself.