Benedix - Creating and Developing City Leaders ?

To those of you who are not familiar with Benedix, this is a combination of a recruiting agency with some sort of a training centre ("Training and career advice for the banking and finance sector"). To begin the process, the candidate is requested to participate in a 1-day workshop that the agency is holding (costs 35£ or so). After the workshop, the agency picks the more potential candidates for its 'candidates pool'. I attended such a workshop recently and here are my 2 cents.

1) The workshop itself was well-organized, even though many participants attended. It is basically a long lecture (by a city professional with excellent presentation skills) that covers the following: the financial industry in general, mapping the relationship among all the different players, some overview of major possible roles, interview skills 101, and mainly - lots of motivational 'coaching'.

2) Along the day, every (potential) candidate is called for a 5 minutes interview - reviewing CV, aspirations, etc. I guess that the agency bases its decision on this interview.

3) On their website one can find several sources of information about the industry and in the near future (planned ...) about current vacancies. Further workshops are offered on specific subjects

I was not one of the 'chosen few' - received no feedback what so ever after the workshop. Except for the overview of the industry and roles, the workshop was not too effective for me. I was hoping to get some real advice and analysis of my strengths and weaknesses and more 'tailored' recommendations.

Bottom line - guess that Benedix might be suitable for certain people, probably not for me.