FDM Leeds Academy - Anonymous employee FDM Group Employee Review

4.0
Aug 18, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I had no previous IT experience and still this was never a problem. The training provided was really good for the most part apart from a couple of applications that were not as easy for me to learn. The academy manager, when in office was ready to offer help with whatever was necessary. Overall a good place to work. They do offer help with moving houses when you get placed as well as the interview travel costs as you may have to travel to the other end of the country.

Cons

Some negatives were that a few of the courses on certain apps were not yet fully developed and this led to frustration in the class. During training, if you had an to take a day off for an interview, there isn't much that can be done for you to catch up on what you missed. If this happened towards the start of your course, it can be very difficult to catch up however it is not impossible. Most trainers offered help when they could to get you through this.

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FDM Group Response
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Thank you for taking the time to post an honest and constructive review. I’m glad you’re enjoying your time with FDM so far and that you would recommend FDM to others. I oversee the academy and agree that courses should be fully developed (as much as possible) to minimise any issues. I would be interested to hear what courses you are referring to so that I can address this and also discuss how we can improve communication between the account managers and trainees. Your feedback is much appreciated. Please come and see me or email me at Jonathan.Young@fdmgroup.com Jonathan Young - CIO

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