Pros
If you come to Dubai with at least £25,000 to survive, work 7 days a week making cold calls to unwelcoming recipients and also are bestowed with an abundance of luck, you might just make it out here, eventually get onto sales and then make some very good money.
Cons
Too many to name. First and foremost, whatever idea you have in your mind of what it’s like to work for this company, eradicate it immediately. Like anything in life, it takes time, resilience and hard work, but that is an understatement at Allsopps. Firstly, the barber shop in their office is literally a bloke on a chair in the corner of a room, and the Coffeehouse is one desk with two unfriendly chaps selling you overpriced beverages. If you’re starting on lettings, then be prepared to make hundreds of endless cold calls with little to no luck. But don’t worry, the rest of your team in your designated area are just as disinclined to help you as the management as it’s a dog eat dog business and the management have their favorites who are more likely to get deals across the line. I didn’t receive one single lead in the month I was in the business. If that’s not bad enough, after a few weeks, another boatload of unsuspecting newbies will show up to either to replace you or struggle alongside you in the same manor. Try not to make too many friends in your intake, as they all start to drop like flies after a matter of days. The recruitment in this company resembles that of a Ponzi Scheme, where the employees take ALL of the financial risk and the company bares NONE. Other firms in Dubai will offer you a phone, laptop, paid RERA and broker card, none of which is provided by this company. After years of working in business, I can tell you without a doubt that the attitude of this company is to over-employ on a dramatic scale, bare almost no financial risk, and sit back and relax whilst you either sink or swim and their forfeiture funds start rolling in from those who don’t stay. Me and other colleagues joked that senior management have a “Squid Game” type set-up in one of their offices with all of our faces on, slowly watching us drop off and gambling on who leaves and who stays. BE WARNED AND ALSO REACH OUT TO OTHER COMPANIES TO GET ADVICE. Also, be advised, I have absolutely no reason to give anything but a truthful review of this company and this is coming from someone with years of sales experience. Also, be aware that 90% of the employees and the English that live and work out there are narcissistic sociopaths.