Annoying Recruitment Agencies

jumpycheese1

Has anyone used the Job Centre Plus search engine for looking for jobs? I have given up on it. As most job searches I put down the city I live in as the search criteria. Normally, you should only get a list of jobs which fit your job titles, location full/part time etc.

Wrong! I put Leicester -as that's where I live. The last time I did a search, I got Cardiff, Sunderland, Chesterfield and Dover!

chocolatechipcookies

jumpycheese1 wrote: »

Has anyone used the Job Centre Plus search engine for looking for jobs? I have given up on it. As most job searches I put down the city I live in as the search criteria. Normally, you should only get a list of jobs which fit your job titles, location full/part time etc.

Wrong! I put Leicester -as that's where I live. The last time I did a search, I got Cardiff, Sunderland, Chesterfield and Dover!

I used to put in jobs for Hull and got London. I gave up on it quickly.

chocolatechipcookies

I enquired about a letting agent position. The job description says you need experience, which I do have. When I asked about it she said you need to be at management level, too bad it doesn't say this anywhere in the job description. Might be nice to include this information.

I noticed for a lot of the ads they have on their websites, you read the job description, am able to do that job as you do have experience, but they just aren't putting you forward for these jobs. Are most of the jobs they advertise fake? I know they do advertise fake jobs, I just don't know what percentage are. Like the letting job. I could so that. I know I could. But I wonder if it was a fake job.

gingerdad

I have had mixed experience with agencys, but on the whole i have had 4 of my last five jobs via agencys. one very good agency and 3 crap ones. but hey ho..... would still register with them again if was looking for work, but some certain ones do seem to advertise lots of fake jobs.

Regards

GD

jumpycheese1

Also I hate jobs when they don't mention PAY! or if it's part time, how many hours does a full time person do? If you were applying for a role that is 18.5 hours per week, you would rather choose the full time hours are 35 hours than 40 hours per week. (52.86% and 46.25% of a full time hours respectively). If that job was paid at £15k per annum full time - that means the 18.5/35 hours job gets just under £1000 more in pay. Yet, you don't do any extra work! The figures are £7929 and £6937

marcus45

Shake the baggage and move on they are not worth it. your time or truble worrying about them..

lufcgirl

My little sister is a recruitment consultant so I somewhat have a biased view towards her. I know she works a very long week (around 50 hours) and she's only 22 with little rewards. She's not targeted and so doesn't falsely advertise positions but does have an awful lot of awkward situations she encounters.
One of the main problems is she just has people walking in from the street, expecting her to sit down and just give them a job to start the following week, which is totally unreasonable especially when they get rude when she asks them to forward a CV to her which she'd look at. She tries her best to get people into jobs as this results in bonuses and will try to help anyone who comes through that door.

However on the other hand, I've experienced the downside of agencies. Some of them, you seem to have to make endless contact with them before getting through to someone. I've never been told before that the job is gone, but I do find them very reluctant to help when you only want temp work.

mshappy

My experience with a large agency so far has been farely good.Applied for a job online half hour later i got a phone call offering me the job and I went to see them to register and I started the job monday.The consultant walked me and the 2 other temps to the office to introduce us.Have emailed her asking about a p46 but had no reply.

chocolatechipcookies

I went into Hays, I registered over a month ago. I asked about temping positions, just poking to see what was going on. She told me she never received any of my references, but I know for sure my old boss filled it out when I was there and sent it off. I don't know about the other, though. Anyway, she never bothered to chase them up and left them. The only reason I haven't hear from them is my lack of references, according to her. When I got applications for property, I made a point of chasing the up, I can't just leave things weeks like they did.

dragonfly2008

Anyone that’s used agencies in the past will already know they are a pain in the !!!!. They threat you like meat, a number, employers that are using them mess them about, they NEVER answer e-mails, for every one of you there are 25 foreign workers usually in there, in general using them is a horrible experience.

I’ve sent several e-mails to agencies with no reply, one agency I was with (Not a particularly big agency but had fairly decent people in it), Phoned me about 4pm out of the blue and said can you start work tomorrow, I went yes, turned up at like 6am, the employer said “sorry, there’s too many people so there’s no work, the agency must have ‘over ordered’”. Something like that. If you phone an agency about a job and they say e-mail your CV, you might as well run naked down the street instead.

My advice is just steer well clear of them and all the rubbish that goes with them, if you ‘have’ to register with any, just go for jobs that are temporary which could lead to permanent and grit your teeth for 13 or so weeks. If you take a temporary unknown duration job it’ll be a nightmare, temporary duration means ‘rubbish employer, wants a job doing as quickly as possible and as cheaply as possible.’. Also read the contracts very closely, whilst working for the agency you are employed on a temporary basis and all that goes with it, but in one contract it said if taken on permanently you need to give 3 months notice if you want to leave.






Its far, far, far better going directly to a employer.