Recruitment agencies

liney

andy46 wrote: »

Hmmm - Are you saying then that all agencies have to ask your permission to send out your cv to a particular company ???. Last year on 2 occasions 2 different agencies got me interviews with companies outside my travelling area which I could have saved them time if they called me beforehand. I was led to believe that when you register with an agency they can send your cv to any employer unless it is an employer that you have specified that you do not want to work for.
Also If I was to be able to apply to an employer direct and not through the agency and taken on, I do not believe that the company HR dept would collaberate with the agency that I was taken on direct with them

In accordance with the REC code of practice an agency should not forward your details to a job without obtaining your permission. It's just a waste of everyone's time if you turn out not to be interested or indeed have accepted a placement elsewhere in the mean time anyway.

It is not however, a legal requirement to be an REC Member, but I would urge both clients and candidates to only deal with REC Members as they must follow strict guidelines which ensure that the recruitment process is both legal, and consistant.

The second point about the agency not knowing if you started a job. Most Clients will give the name of the new person in the role if you haven't filled it: after a couple of weeks the agency will call the company to speak to newperson101. If they aren't there then the situation would be looked into. Even if no name is given there are many ways of clarifying whether someone in particular has started work.

It might sound harsh, but why should the consultant not be paid for their work?

chuckley

ive only been successful through agencies.

i used to get loads of interviews via reed postings. there are some dodge ones out there though.

'monster' contacted me once when i know for a fact i dont use them, or applied for a job on reed through them. and they refused to tell me where they got my cv from. all she said was 'well its recent' she'd 'lined' me up for an interview and bombarded me with calls and decided to text me @ 7am the next morn telling me the details. needless to say i ignored her and she gave up after a while.

the agency im with now is a mini local one and they have always found me temp work within a week of being out of work.

somtimes its best not to go to the well known ones.

i found reed on the high tsreet utterly useless. she told me the window ones had 'all gone'.

nexuss

I know a agency who would offer refugees £100 bonus for every one of there friends they referred to the agency for manual work in bakeries and warehouses.Hence they got 137 staff in less than a week.The workers were getting paid £5.73 per hour for nights and i think the agency were getting over £8 per hour for each hour the worker worked.A 50 hour week earning the agency £113.50 profit per man per week.

liney

nexuss wrote: »

I know a agency who would offer refugees £100 bonus for every one of there friends they referred to the agency for manual work in bakeries and warehouses.Hence they got 137 staff in less than a week.The workers were getting paid £5.73 per hour for nights and i think the agency were getting over £8 per hour for each hour the worker worked.A 50 hour week earning the agency £113.50 profit per man per week.

£113.50 isnt profit though is it? It's turnover: very different.

Out of the margin they pay: Employers NI, holiday pay, cost of their own staff, cost of their own staff's employer NI and holiday pay, rent, cost of utilities, business rates (ie council tax),cost of insurances (contents, PI, EL etc), cost of trade memberships, cost of advertising and job boards, accountants fee's, etc etc.

You must remember they are a business and therefore entitled to make a profit, and they don't make anywhere near the profits suggested.

jopwo_87

liney wrote: »

Or they could just be having a problem with their server. Paranoid much?:rotfl:

Nope cos they were getting emails from others as they told me over the phone. Apparantly the problem was my end, although i proved it wasn't. :rotfl:

Oh and another thing. This particular recuritment agencys website has i think 43 temp jobs advertised online right now. Yet when i went in to register i was told that they have no work. Does this mean that what is on the internet is a sort of bait?

jopwo_87

Liney, you seem to know your stuff! Ccan i ask which agencies (national) ones you can recommend? What are good things to look out for in a recuritment agency? What makes a good candidate etc? TBH that would really help me and im sure a lot of other job candidates out there.

secretspender_2

the jobs in the window are always gone ;)they never exist

CCFC_80

jopwo_87 wrote: »

Nope cos they were getting emails from others as they told me over the phone. Apparantly the problem was my end, although i proved it wasn't. :rotfl:

Oh and another thing. This particular recuritment agencys website has i think 43 temp jobs advertised online right now. Yet when i went in to register i was told that they have no work. Does this mean that what is on the internet is a sort of bait?

Apparently it is illegal for an agency to advertise jobs that do not exist as there is some sort of code of conduct.
I wait for the day to see someone or some organisation justifiably prosecute agencies for lying and giving misleading information when it comes across that they have jobs when they have not !

DCFC79

secretspender wrote: »

the jobs in the window are always gone ;)they never exist

but then maybe the jobs that are gone are ones that are in demand,

snowqueen555

A lot of agencies advertise on jobcentre, every week or so I will get a call from a well known job agency asking me about my cv, or about a job I aplied for. Its always a shock.

I never get anything though