Has anyone heard of Freshminds research consultancy? What's the general consensus?

They have won the MRS Research and Efficiency Awards for the last couple of years and seem to be an enthusiastic and friendly bunch.

Depends on whether you want to join them to do research or if you go in as a 'mind' and do project work for them i.e. being outsourced to strat houses for research, interviews, number crunching etc. If you are between jobs or a grad then the latter option has born fruit for several people I know.

It's does some decent research and draws good PR, but operates on a limited scale. It pretty much exists solely as a gimmicky loss-leader to draw work into the profit-making recruitment business. The "Minds" thing isn't all that it's cracked up to be - some people get a bit of temping experience from it, but mostly it's a way to gather lots of candidate CVs.Think Cerco (you've probably seen the TV ads) but for grads - lots of promises of training and experience to improve your "potential" earnings, but at the end of the day a recruitment consultancy is a recruitment consultancy is a recruitment consultancy.

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