Following on from some of the other reports on here I would like to add evidence to the fact that 'Executive Advertising, Inc.' are a bunch of brainwashing scammers.
Like many other people I was attracted by the tone of the advert placed on several job websites. But ask yourself this: Why would a big, reputable company such as 'Executive Advertising, Inc.' have to post on free websites? Many companies in their 'calibre' would be using recruitment agents so why not them?
The reason is simple; they obviously want as many people to fall for their pyramid scheme as possible without being caught or have to pay a commision on finding people to make money out of. Any half decent recruitment agent would not touch this kind of business with a bargepole.
I (out of desperation and curiousty) applied through one of the twenty or so adverts I saw online and was surprised to receive a phone call from them within ten minutes to tell me I had been selected for a 'preliminary interview'. I was suspicious but thought I would go along with it as I had time to spare.
When I attended the interview the next day I was surprised that there seemed to be a lot of teenagers hanging around in scruffy attire, talking about their previous work in a bar and how much they wanted to work in advertising. I thought if the company were choosing people for interviews then they weren't very good at it. I know the advert said no experience necessary but I though they would be a limit.
The interview was the ten mins that everyone else on here has talked about with just being told about 'direct advertising' and how in four years time I could be a senior manager. (yeah right - I thought).
The offices by the way were really shabby and obviously temporary and it seemed so apparent that for a huge global business they were obviously counting the pennies.
Later that evening I was contacted to say I had been selected for an assessment day and by this point I was feeling really unsure about the whole thing. I spent a lot of my time at the weekend investigating them and this is what I found.
A) The company is not UK registered.
B) Their website states that they are a meber of the BBB (Better Business Bureaus) which is not true and they actually have a complaint registered against them.
C) On whois.com (a site to check domain names) it lists the domain name executive-advertising.com as being registered in Zimbabwe!
D) They say they have big contracts with MBNA, Sky TV and Carphone Warehouse (this must mean door to door selling but I am investigating this and actually contacting the companies) but no one seems to have heard of them so far
E) I found another site which showed the times that their website has been viewed which amounts to about 50 in the last 18months (not very impressive for a global advertising firm)
F) Other firms are registered to the same address as their office all with exactly the same adverts on the internet - Green and Associates and Primus UK.
I'm sure there is other evidence to suggest that they are not as reputable as they would have you believe.
Needless to say I have not attended the 'assessment day' as I have had time to assess them and mostly thanks to this site I have saved myself a wasted day. I did try to contact them to let them know but surprise, surprise their phone number wasn't working, nor was the one in London...
A swift e-mail telling them I had uncovered the truth and asking not to contact me again resulted in them trying to phone me but I just hung up. I tried to report it to the local paper but they were not interested - much is the pity.
Fingers crossed they'll sod off soon and hopefully their pyramid will crumble around them.
Poolhall
Manchester
United Kingdom