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Job advertised on company website & agency website - conflicting information

I registered with another agency early this week (17th).

The agency have found and put me forward for a job. She told me that the job is new and just arrived in her e-mail inbox on the day I registered (the minute I was sitting down chatting with her about my circumstances). Now I will need to wait for an interview date.

I went back home and researched the company that I will be working for, so I know what the company is all about. Coincidently, the job was on the company's website, and the date it was posted was last week (13th) with a closing date of yesterday (19th).

The job is uploaded on the agency's website, a day after the staff saw me. It still appears active and accepting applications/CVs.

I am curious why there are conflicting information between the company and the agency?

Comments

  • floss2
    floss2 Posts: 8,030 Forumite
    Probably because they would rather recruit from their own advert than via an agency whom they would have to pay.
  • zenmaster
    zenmaster Posts: 3,151 Forumite
    Or perhaps they got no/poor response from their website ad and so got the agency involved.
  • cazziebo
    cazziebo Posts: 3,209 Forumite
    Or the agency don't really have the job and are "ad chasing" ie submitting speculative CVs to advertised jobs... very poor practice.

    I have just written to the MD of a company today when someone showed me a job I advertised on an agency website. I am recruiting directly, paid a fortune to advertise, received a great response and there is no way I will accept speculative applications from agencies.

    Sorry, I'm in a very bad mood! Hopefully, the company have just not got the response they were looking for and have gone to an agency for help as Zenmaster suggests....

    Good luck!
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