Recruitment agencies

cozza

I signed up last Aug with 2 online and went to there offices as well as 3 others they say they have no vacancys ? but when you look in the window or online they have loads ?

jessbob

BYALPHAINDIA wrote: »

That's just advertising for the Agency, The Agencies actually get money for signing new people onto their books!!

Good Luck With The Jobhunt.

Ha - so that is why so many of them are asking me to send my details, and then never hear anything back from them with any vacancies !!!!

nexuss

They tell you they have jobs just to get you to sign up.

liney

cozza wrote: »

I signed up last Aug with 2 online and went to there offices as well as 3 others they say they have no vacancys ? but when you look in the window or online they have loads ?

Having worked in the Recruitment Industry I can catagorically state:

Agencies are not paid for getting people to register; who do you expect would pay them?

They are paid by a client once a candidate has started an assignment. Not before.

The client customer is always right. They are the paying customer, not you the candidate, so if they don't want X temp then yes of course they can have Y instead.

Candidates do not listen to what consultants say. They hear what they want to hear. ie They said they have no jobs! No, they said they had nothing suitable at the moment.

Agencies want to deal with A1 candidates. They are paid to provide the Client customer with a superstar, not a Joe Bloggs that could have applied at the Job Centre. I'm sorry if anyone is offended, but if your CV is "average" then, yes an agency will probably only offer you temporary work and be unable to place you in a permanent role due to competition from better candidates.

Lastly, Client companies change their minds. All the time..... They ask for one thing, then once presented with it they decide that's not what they wanted afterall. It isn't always the Consultants' fault that the goal posts are changed.

jessbob

Liney

Quite understand where you are coming from, but don't you think that they could just let you know now and again what is happening, not will ring you back in next couple of days, and then over a week later when I ring them, she has gone on holiday and no-one else can help.

I have very little faith in them, and I must be registered with about a dozen. Not found a decent one yet.

I am aware that there are very few jobs in property at the moment, but all I ask for is the courtesy of being updated.

BYALPHAINDIA

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The client customer is always right. They are the paying customer, not you the candidate, so if they don't want X temp then yes of course they can have Y instead.

Candidates do not listen to what consultants say. They hear what they want to hear. ie They said they have no jobs! No, they said they had nothing suitable at the moment.

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I have seen some clients make the wrong decision, I have seen people fired because their face doesn't fit the mould!!

If the clients always right, Then there is no 2nd opinion from the temp?

Sometimes 'Some' consultants say = 'There is nothing suitable at the moment to pass the temp onto someone else or another agency?

A kind of cannot be bothered or an other excuse?

I have sat in a reception and heard consultants tell other consultants to say x

liney

BYALPHAINDIA wrote: »

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The client customer is always right. They are the paying customer, not you the candidate, so if they don't want X temp then yes of course they can have Y instead.

Candidates do not listen to what consultants say. They hear what they want to hear. ie They said they have no jobs! No, they said they had nothing suitable at the moment.

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I have seen some clients make the wrong decision, I have seen people fired because their face doesn't fit the mould!!

If the clients always right, Then there is no 2nd opinion from the temp?

Sometimes 'Some' consultants say = 'There is nothing suitable at the moment to pass the temp onto someone else or another agency?

A kind of cannot be bothered or an other excuse?

I have sat in a reception and heard consultants tell other consultants to say x

Whatever you think, the client company pay for the privilege of chosing who they have on site. I imagine they sometimes are hastey in their judgment, but as a service provider, as long as what your customer asks you do is within the law you do as you are told if you want to keep the customer.

As for fobbing people off as you are suggesting happens, it's preferable to "Your CV is shocking and I don't like your attitude" in most cases. Then you really would have something to complain about! Most people would accept this as a polite "Don't call us, we'll call you"

liney

jessbob wrote: »

Liney

Quite understand where you are coming from, but don't you think that they could just let you know now and again what is happening, not will ring you back in next couple of days, and then over a week later when I ring them, she has gone on holiday and no-one else can help.

I have very little faith in them, and I must be registered with about a dozen. Not found a decent one yet.

I am aware that there are very few jobs in property at the moment, but all I ask for is the courtesy of being updated.

The thing is that constant updates for huge numbers of candidates would be a job in it's self. Most work on the basis of letting you know if there is any change, or a new opportunity arises and expect you to do the same, ie let them know of any interviews you have attended or if you secure a temp/perm position. The cost in time and money to call people to tell them "No change" would be prohibitive.

CCFC_80

liney wrote: »

The thing is that constant updates for huge numbers of candidates would be a job in it's self. Most work on the basis of letting you know if there is any change, or a new opportunity arises and expect you to do the same, ie let them know of any interviews you have attended or if you secure a temp/perm position. The cost in time and money to call people to tell them "No change" would be prohibitive.

I regularly get asked by the useless agencies (95% of them)that they cannot find me any work at the moment and want to know what applications and interviews I have recently attended. I refuse to co-operate with these tactics as Why should I give them job leads when they should be giving them to me.

sweetstudent

I have worked for one agency - which begins with P. I had two long term 'assignments' and on the second assignment i was taken on permantly and not only that but i was taken on on a higher grade.

the second agency, called H, i had a interview for a perm job with VM, who offered me the role and a week later they called to say that they could not afford to take me on!!

so they are not all bad! lol - (yeah right!)