Palm Tree EstatesReviews of myfinancialcareers.com

My friends adviced me but i didnt listen , i later learnt the hard way and sought my friends advice that showed me who to help me fight for my case.

I recently had a very disappointing experience with this company. They made me pay for a course, promising it would lead to an interview. After paying and completing the course, they completely disappeared and never got back to me. This is clearly a scam designed to take your money without delivering on their promises. Save your money and avoid this company at all costs!

Avoid this company at all costs, this company is a scam to try to get your money by selling you a course that would not matter in your career. No matter how desperate you are to get a job, please do not fall for this company trying to sell you the CIFA course.

Scam company trying to sell you a finance career course. Don't buy and be fooled.

myfinancial careers.com IS DODGY EVERYONE: 1. I also got contacted by them out of the blue, in which I was confused about how they got my contact details. They claimed I had applied to them which I did not. 2. Then proceeded to interview you (with my ‘recuiter’ going under the name Amos Campbell) on the phone for around an hour, but stated they couldn't tell me the name of the company because of "contractual obligations". 3. Questions are very very basic, and then claim they love you as a candidate, and put you on hold to ‘discuss’ your application. 4. This is when they bring up the qualification and how I would need the regulation in order to progress my application. And if you buy the course, they will progress your application 5. Unfortunately, I did buy the course, but luckily I came to my senses after doing further research online and consulting with others, to which I clocked this may be an intricate pressurised business practice/ a scam 6. I was able to apply for a refund directly CIFA as luckily I did not start the course and applied for the refund within the 14-day refund period. Luckily their customer service did respond quickly, but not surprisingly because legally I am allowed to have a refund. 7. The catch is that these ‘recruiters’ know this, and so heavily put pressure on you to start the course and to wait 4-6 weeks for a response from this company, in which by the time you have realised it is a scam, you can’t get your money back. 8. Reading other reviews on here, Reddit and other platforms, I see that people waited the 4-6 weeks and had poor or little-to-know communication with the ‘recruiter’ in which they came to find out that this is all an elaborate ploy - or a form of a recruitment scam. Additional notes: * I HEAVILY suspect that they work together with CIFA to pressure graduates into taking the course (fyi CIFA is not an FCA Approved Qualification Provider), so essentially is not a course you should be taking to further your career, you are much better taking a course from CFA or any other FCA approved courses. * Myfinancialcareers was incorporated on 20th Sept 2023 (check the govuk website) and there is also not alot of email traffic to the site. For them to have so many negative reviews already in such a short space of time but at the same time claim to have contacts within the most prestigious companies in the industry screams something unethical is going on here. Overall, NO established recruiter will call you out of the blue and require you to purchase a course to be considered for a job/ progress to a certain stage. Unless it is employer-sponsored, don't spend anything on a course. PLEASE TAKE CARE PEOPLE! EDIT/UPDATE 19/03/2024: After writing this initial review, I have just gotten a threatening email from CIFA telling me to take down my review else legal action will be ensued. I see this is consistent of them to do to people who post bad reviews about them - What I find funny is that I was simply telling everyone my experience, there is nothing defamatory about this review - I also find it funny that this review was primarily about myfinancialcareers.com and not about CIFA, but yet I got a threatening email from CIFA. This affirms my belief that CIFA and myfinancial careers are somehow associated with each other to some degree, because why is CIFA concerned about my review about a completely ‘separate’ company or how did they even know that I wrote this review?

The interviewer gives you false hope of career prospects before urging you to buy a course. Very dodgy, I would avoid at all costs.

They push for you to buy a course! Don’t buy it!! Scamming graduates trying to pursue a career in finance, very low from this ‘so called’ company. DON’T BE FOOLED!!!

After my initial review, I hadn’t planned on writing another; that was until I checked my inbox to find two rather patronising emails from this company. I’m really quite angry about this situation, but will endeavour to keep the below professional. Since writing my initial review, the company has reached out to me advising me to remove my review. I was reluctant to do so as I don’t see the point in vetting the reviews as this doesn’t truly reflect everyone’s experiences fairly. I was also notified by Trustpilot that the company had reported my review for containing illegal comments. No such comments were found by Trustpilot and my review was then posted. This afternoon I’ve received an intimidating email from Myfinancialcareers threatening me with legal action against my review. The company seems desperate for me to remove my review and any sense of sincerity seems to have been blown out of the water in their most recent email. I’m absolutely disgusted that they have the nerve to threaten me with legal action when my review only reflects facts, simply because they’re concerned for their reputation over the treatment of their customers. After reading some other reviews, unfortunately it seems others are facing similar problems with regards to poor treatment after purchasing exams. My intention isn't to damage this companies’ reputation, but simply to inform others of my experience so that they don't find themselves in the same position.