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Northen Rights

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amber9612 · 10/08/2022 18:16

Anyone from UC been put on a programme called northen rights?how are you finding it?

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QuestionableMouse · 10/08/2022 19:09

Is it this northernrights.org.uk/? Reviews seem to be mixed!

amber9612 · 10/08/2022 23:14

@QuestionableMouse yes that's them. Yes very mixed. Just wondering what anyones personal experiences with them have been like so far as there's hardly anything online about this company other than the Google reviews and I'm wondering if some of their good reviews are fake accounts as last time I checked all their reviews were bad up until the past couple weeks.

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Jalisco · 11/08/2022 11:44

I haven't worked with them, but I have worked with similar agencies. Based on my experience with them, I wouldn't work on reviews. These agencies have a job to do, and that is to get people into work. Like it or lump it, that is what they are being paid to do. If you want to find work and engage well with the opportunities available then you will more often than not succeed, and so you will be happy (and happy people often don't write reviews). If you have been sent there and finding work isn't on your agenda, then you will be grumpy, very unhappy and refuse to work well with them. So yes, you will write reviews about things like them trying to force you to work!

Like I said, that is based on my experience of a lot of agencies exactly like this. So I'd say that if finding work is something you want to do, and you are realistic about your options for employment (another factor to consider - if you have few skills or qualifications then prime well paying jobs may not be on the agenda - but improving those things might be!) then my experience of about a dozen similar places is that they work well for people.

To be fair, agencies like this hate having referrals from people who don't want to work (although the DWP don't care about that!) because they can put a lot of effort into the trying to help them, but they get little or no payment at all for that. Also, it is normal for people to have to sustain work for a specific period of time - often at least 6 months - for them to get the bulk of the money. So there is no advantage to them in forcing people into jobs that they won't stay at.

Cloud9isnowclosed · 13/08/2022 10:20

I know them and they are passionate about supporting people. I'd echo Jalisco comments

amber9612 · 06/09/2022 17:27

Nah guys they are shite. I left commenting about it for a while as I wanted to make my own opinion. They literally harass you. I am someone who wants to work in-fact all I did was apply for jobs but they were trying to push me into jobs that had high staff turn over/target based jobs or jobs that weren't suitable for having small children or jobs I didn't have qualifications for. Found a job on my own and luckily got it which I'm over the moon about and start soon Grin they also promised help with mental health like counselling etc never to be mentioned again then were asking to apply for jobs for me which was totally fine but they wouldn't tell me what they were signing me up for when I asked and just said they didn't know which wouldn't of been helpful if the job they applied on my behalf for rang me and offered me an interview I'd be absolutely clueless lol. They don't seem passionate about helping people back into work as much as they are about getting people back into work so they can make a profit as I was told when going in they make money if you get a job earning a certain amount a year. They look down on you or act smug as well, drag you in for appointments that could be done over the phone that take 1 minute to do, constantly ring, text and leave voicemails. I know someone else on it who's being threatened with sanction even though he's jumping through their hoops. Maybe it's just the area I live in that's got the rubbish one with shitty staff as I know there's more of them dotted around.

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