I "applied" (well gave my contact email) yesterday, because they had been advertising on the Reed website (naive me was thinking, "they must be serious").

However, the page you need to fill in for their "application" contains some test questions about your knowledge of English that a Year 6 student could answer easily (even me whose English is not my native language could answer). Isn't this looking a bit dodgy for a company so-called "academic"? My question was also "who may be interested in this work really, when universities are full of researchers????????????"....after having read your blogs, I understand better now.

The icing on the cake is that after having done this "preliminary selection" yesterday at 11pm, first thing this morning I got the most impersonal email telling me I had passed (wow! What an ego boost!) and that email contained the very interesting statement " I'd therefore like to assure you that Academic Company is a reputable, established UK company that you can trust- please do check us out on the UK Companies House website."...... I have worked for many "proper" companies in the past and have never seen this detail with such wording.

Food for thought.... but my journey with them stops here