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    Allen lane recruitment agency

    Hey everyone,

    I just wanted to get some of your opinions on the allen lane's google reviews. In the last two days, four 5* reviews have mysteriously appeared on their google page. The accounts these were written from seem to be brand new, and created for the sole purpose of writing reviews.

    Does anyone else think these 4 recent reviews are fake? Something doesn't seem right. : It looks like they are trying to boost their ratings.

    Kris
    Last edited by kristen330; 25 August 2017, 11:56.

    #2
    I don't pay any attention to those reviews. Would you base any kind of decision involving your career based on opinions of random strangers even if they weren't fake? One of them might be PC. Nuff said.
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      #3
      Originally posted by northernladuk View Post
      I don't pay any attention to those reviews. Would you base any kind of decision involving your career based on opinions of random strangers even if they weren't fake? One of them might be PC. Nuff said.
      And CUK explodes in a puff of logic.

      I suppose at least on CUK, any of the more extreme nonsense is filtered out and there is some debate.

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        #4
        Don't know about Allen Lane, but Alan Ladd is a bit of a cowboy apparently.
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          #5
          Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
          Don't know about Allen Lane, but Alan Ladd is a bit of a cowboy apparently.
          Didn't you go see him live TF?
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            #6
            Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
            Don't know about Allen Lane, but Alan Ladd is a bit of a cowboy apparently.
            Who's Alan Ladd? :

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              #7
              I knew I recognised the name and its from http://forums.contractoruk.com/umbre...ck-agency.html

              So the answer is they are as dodgy as ..... keep well away...
              merely at clientco for the entertainment

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                #8
                The latest two reviews sound a bit dodgy. Cara Thompson doesn't sound like a real person. "Thanks guys for all of your help. My CV looks so much better now and I love my new job" - who the hell writes a review saying that about an agency?

                Steer clear of this bunch - they tried a dodgy scheme with their puppet umbrella company First Umbrella to charge £30 a day extra but they have just pulled it when it was exposed.

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                  #9
                  I only trust reviews on spivadvisor.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by force11 View Post
                    The latest two reviews sound a bit dodgy. Cara Thompson doesn't sound like a real person. "Thanks guys for all of your help. My CV looks so much better now and I love my new job" - who the hell writes a review saying that about an agency?

                    Steer clear of this bunch - they tried a dodgy scheme with their puppet umbrella company First Umbrella to charge £30 a day extra but they have just pulled it when it was exposed.
                    Highly suspicious to say the least. Also looks like they created new google accounts just to write these reviews LOL. Talk about desperate.

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