Horizon Online in London
Horizon Online
We specialize in training people in different areas from IT to business management and human resources. We have very innovative courses that help people to run their own business.
Products & Services:
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. A very interesting course and very useful to my current job. I was initially considering doing the Green Belt but was advised not to. The course is very easy to follow even though it is all done online. The explanations are easy to understand, as it comes with the training materials and presentations.
Horrible experience, took the money and then hey, there is nothing we can do, we will just send you some adverts from gumtree and indeed. Also, they just send you to some website to learn, no coaching, no nothing. Stay away from them, do NOT PAY THEM UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, THEY SHOULD BE IN JAIL.
Not worth any penny of your money and especially of your time! If you see this company just run away! Run away as far as you can! They are just nice until you pay them, after they don't care about you.
How it looks like? First some woman calls you and says that they have a job for you. She makes an appointment with Jodie. You are going there with good thinking and hope that something good meet you. You see the big building. Going inside. Big room, nothing around, it's reception with one woman sitting next to the desk in the middle of this room. You signed in and going on the 5th floor in elevator. You getting out and going to the next reception. They say to sit and wait until someone come for you. You wait about 5-15 minutes. One person come for you and get you to a room behind reception, loads of tables and people around talking. If you see more carefully you will recognize that this is the canteen.
Then you have a talk. They ask about your experience, work, salary etc. They tell you about plan what they do, what change, with what they help you, they say that you can have more money with them. They give you hope about good change and find better job.
They show you course which you HAVE TO DO FIRST, they say. After they say that you need to pay 750 pounds for it STRAIGHT NOW, if you don't have they will tell you about lower price (a discount for you) 500 pounds, if you still don't have they will say 450 pounds. If you ask that you can think about it or pay for it in rates they saying NO. You HAVE TO PAY ALL PRICE NOW when you are on this meeting while signing the paper. Nobody dont warn you on the phone, before meeting, that you need to have money with you. Anyway, if you are stupid like me you will sign it, if you will sign it then they are happy. They say that you will have all exams, tests for free in their company, that they will check your CV and show you how to speak and present yourself on appointment with job etc. Everything sounds nice. They say you have 4 months access to course. After 4 months you have to pay them 40 pounds every month if you want to continue their help. That they suggest you to do 5hours of course a week. They say AFTER when you finish ALL MOS COURSES you can come back to them to take an exam (after do the appointment first). There are 66 courses subjects with test and every presentation last about 1 hr. After when you finish them, you email them or call them for appointment.
They didnt mention on the beginning that you may wait for it from 2 weeks till month. You think you are going for exam for certification from MOS but no, how they later tell you, you come for a practice training. They wrote you on email that you will have Word, Excel and PowerPoint. You come in, they ask which one you want to do first, and you do it. You place for this training is.... another small canteen! almost next to the other. You have a table with laptop and do the training while people all the time walking around you or washing their dishes or doing the coffee. The connection and application for this training is so bad/slow that you can do a million other things before you get another question, like watching telly which is above your head or check your phone or look at this people walking around. The application is not updated. The application on with you training is Gmetrix.
Tbh if you want to do the practice test and pass exam it will be better for you to pay for this application on your own at home than go to this company and pay them. If you say that the connection and application is slow they will put you in the other canteen (the same where you had an appointment on the beginning). When you do this one test they say to you that is all and you have to do another appointment for another practice test (waiting time another 2weeks-1month).
If your access to course almost expired you need to pay another 40 pounds to do the next tests and later exams (even if they tell you on the beginning that you dont have to pay for your test and exams ). If you not pay you cant do anything. You dont have even any confirmations that you have ever done a course like that.
They raven on people hope and faith. They all should be ashamed. In whole my entire life I have never meet company like that. Don't do the same mistake which we have done with people below.
Today (12/5/16) I got a call from a lady called "Nadia" from Horizon online, a company located in Central London, near Liverpool street. She spoke super fast, a strategy very efficient to not allow you to think or process any of the info she was giving. For someone that is looking for a job, receiving a call from a company saying that they have a potential role for you is precisely what you want. But, fortunately, or unfortunately, I have a lot of experience dealing with phonies, so my instinct started to send me some signals. The first thing that triggered my suspicions was how had she found my contacts; if she had my info, how come did she ask me to take my cv with me? Secondly, she mentioned the income amount that I would earn, but she didn't mention anything about the role(s) itself; finally, when she e-mailed me straight after our phone conversation to give me the details for our meeting, the e-mail didn't have any link to the company website, something that nowadays is only common if we are dealing with dubious companies.
I decided to google them, and it was doing that that I discovered that they are a company whose main business is to sell training courses. Eventually, and only eventually, after you buy one of their lazy courses they would help you to find a job. Please be careful with Horizon Online! They are liers! No one has the right to trick you like that! They have to be transparent and honest in their approach! A company that does that can only be fallacious! I was going to pay for an expensive travel from Hampshire to London, just to discover that a lame company was trying to fool me to make me buy their ridiculous courses! Horizon Online feed upon the weaknesses of honest people that are desperate to find a job!
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