Vantaggi
1. Incredible work ethic instilled to employees throughout the 6 weeks programme makes you realise what you're capable of within the work related arena returning to the UK's 9-5 hours after Malta seems like you're working part time. 2.Opportunity to live and work within Malta all flights and accomodation and transfers to and from the office and airport and meals during the first week sorted for you all of which ran impeccably which was some achievement given the amount of graduates on the course. 3.Oppurtunity to work in anyone of 72 offices post Malta which generally all are open given you meet deVeres criteria at end of the 6 weeks. 4.Gain a professional qualification in the form of your level 1 in CISI 5.Truly meritocratic environment some of deVeres most succesful employees are in their 20s and have been promoted/gained clients purely through their own means. Promoting individuals who are good enough regardless of age or experience/qualifications(could also be a negative) 6.Very hands on CEO(again could be a negative somewhat of a marmite character and divided the grads) 7.Earning potential truly is colossal all the senior managers and consultants are very transparent with their earnings and we also were sent figures every week there are employees out in the field earning truly vast sums of money far more than anything advertised in the city.
Svantaggi
1.THIS IS A COLD CALLING SALES ROLE!!! I was aware that the role was sales based as most IFAs are ultimately salesmen who go out to attract new clients. The majority thought that the role would be much more technical due to professional qualifications and being within financial services. 2.One or two individuals polluting the office culture which truly needs to be cleaned up casual sexism,racism and homophobia throughout the training period. 3.Respect graduates more making graduates do press ups and putting bags on their heads for asking 'stupid' questions,i thought i was joining the worlds largest financial consultancy, not the parachute regiment. 4.Very inconsistent ranking of graduates, being given poor ratings for having a rubbish suit or a poor selection of ties. 5.Setting unrealistic targets during training encouraging making yourself physically ill when mining for names through getting 2-3 hours sleep per night in order to gain more points and a higher ranking than whoever is sat next to you.(some may see this as a positive and it may spur them on but 99% would be put off by this) 6.Taking on too many graduates and not having enough data to complete certain rotations of the course being sat for a week cold calling the same numbers or random companies and pitching products to them. 7.Retainer payment far less than minimum wage 1100 pounds a month for 70 hour weeks works out at £3.90 an hour without including the hours of mining outside of office hours.