Reed www.reed.co.uk

I applied for a job through Reed Business Support. They told me if I didn't have exactly the right proof of ID documents, I couldn't be put forward for the role until I travelled to their office in Manchester to scan them in.

What's wrong with scanning them in at home and sending them as an attachment? Ridiculous people.

Anyway, I stuck to my guns and they eventually said I could send them via email. Then I travelled quite a long way to attend a really gruelling interview. I let Reed know how it went afterwards by email as they asked me to - Nothing, no reply, no acknowledgement, nada.

Three weeks after, I had still heard nothing back from Reed, so I emailed the guy I'd dealt with all along to ask for an update. That was over a week ago and I have had no reply and don't expect one either.

The way they operate is, when you're in with a chance of a job and they are in for some commission, they're contacting you for fun. As soon as it's evident you haven't got the job, then you simply don't exist any more. It's just on to the next person with the same approach. Reed are rude, unprofessional and need to learn some manners and people skills and not just ignore people who have actually gone for an interview organised by them.

Disgusting company and people.

Terrible company, signed me up for a contract and completely miss sold and lied to me, told them I wasn’t happy and there attitude was we don’t care your in a contract, adverts producing zero applications on 35 jobs and CV’s of engineers and accountants with there job as a warehouse operative to make it look like they have more CV’s than they actually do! Most CV’s dead and old numbers, duplicate CV’s say that have millions of CV’s when most are made up and don’t work to take your money when signing up. Honestly CV library are cheaper and far better

I sign up with Reed in Reading for some temporary work. I had a couple of phone calls from them at the beginning of the year. I have not heard from since about having any work for me. Today I get an email from Reed in Reading asking if I am still looking for work. I emailed them back saying me off there books. Will not be using Reed in Reading in near future.

Went to Register with the person I dealt with  in Warrington

She said we don't have anything at the minute and will tell you when we do. Despite applying for stuff matching my skills I feel they are pretty useless as they never seem to be aware of anything I have applied for with reed business support when I ring them despite it being their forte,

If you sign up here Good Luck because you will be lucky to hear from them again

The person I dealt with @ Preston is one extenuator of the truth. I had an initial interview which went great, went for the interview and I have no feedback...Whoever owns REED need to audit there staff as you are paying these for nothing. NO job offer = no commission.

Business in about making money (simple), but REED want to pay for Executives to bring no defaulted expenses.

Now, over the last 8 months I have applied to well over 100 jobs advertised via reed recruitment, however I have been called around twice over this lengthy period of time. One phone call was to invite me in for a registration with the person I dealt with, in which she blatantly lied to my face regarding the opportunities they had on offer, and one was to ask me what employment I was interested in AFTER THE REGISTRATION where I explained all this in great detail as I was there over an hour. All that useless woman does is email about 'GREAT OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE' however not once have I even smelt one of these opportunities I am substantially over qualified to take on. She is not worth the time or money spent on her, she is not even worth the energy it takes to click apply on one of their offers as you have more chance of being struck by lightening on the toilet than actually getting anything accomplished with her by your side. She is genuinely appalling. If I was her boss she would have been thrown with the wind a long while ago. Very VERY poor.

Long story short.

Reed.co.uk quoted us for a job posting package and we explained to them that we had a similar offer from another job board but that included CV search and download. They told me that CV search and download was also included in the Reed package and I asked them to pop it all on email, which they did.

When we went to use the CV service, some months later (because their job ads were not working, virtually zero response - don't waste your money) it did not work, and I asked them about this. They explained it was never part of the package and is not in the contract! - It was in the quote though!

One thing we found with Reed.co.uk is that they do not like being complained to at all. They will not accept fault and they respond in quite a rude and arrogant way.

Waste of time applied for lots of jobs through reed, never received any response whatsoever.

Brought a course through their website and received nothing. when I requested a refund I was told to contact the course provider who did not answer the phone!! Still chasing a refund. very unhelpful customer service, not what you would expect from a high street name.

Two London offices, Victoria, and Wembley Park. Lose your CV, never forward it, don't get in touch, have to keep phoning them, have to keep going in etc etc. After all their adverts on TV about Mondays etc, they don't bother. What a joke! And we British are being told that we 'do not want to work and we are lazy' etc when talking about immigrant workers and they can't even bother to get in touch! I saw a lot of foreign workers in the Wembley Park, London office a few weeks ago. They were interviewing them and talking to them- all being paid minimum wage and being exploited! Shameful of them! They don't want to employ Brits!