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newlywed

i've applied for over 60 jobs in the last few months. Some agencies reply and say sorry the job is filled/there are others with more relevant experience. Reed have never responded. Hays recruitment have rung me each time I've applied for a job on their site and set up a couple of interviews for me.

So a mixed bag with agencies really. But no response from Reed at all yet.

David_Brent

terra_ferma wrote: »

The jobs were not from Reed themselves, but other agencies using their websites. And I'm also talking about new jobs, just advertised.
Unfortunately it's not unusual for agencies to advertise non existant jobs. My field is fairly specialised, sometimes I can spot the fake ones. Once I even called the company whose genuine job advertised several months before had been cloned, and the vacancy had been filled.

Other times I call and the advisor is very vagues, jobs put on hold etc etc, and they don't sound convincing at all.
They do it to get CVs in, because when a vacancy comes in they have sometimes only a couple of days to find someone, and competition is fierce.

Sometimes they genuine jobs are not even advertised, if they have enough people in their books.

I didn't realise it goes on, on such a scale.. that is very cheeky if they get away with advertising fake jobs and dishonest.

Deep_In_Debt

I worked for an agency and we never advertised jobs that didn't exist...maybe you are just not sellling yourselves...We would pick suitable C.V's and when you have over 100 applicants for one job, you have to be selective.

We always responded to all applicants, whether successful or not.

And no, I'm not a troll.

terra_ferma

Deep_In_Debt wrote: »

I worked for an agency and we never advertised jobs that didn't exist...maybe you are just not sellling yourselves...We would pick suitable C.V's and when you have over 100 applicants for one job, you have to be selective.

We always responded to all applicants, whether successful or not.

And no, I'm not a troll.

It's good to hear that not all agencies do it.

But they would never get 100 applicants for the jobs I'm talking about. Now things are slightly different, but a couple of years ago they would get very few applicants with the right skills, that's why I could tell when a job did not exist, and also not everyone is good at lying.....

And even when the job exists it's not always what you think it is in terms of rates, length of contract, job title, start date, location.... don't get me started, off topic.

Jaymz

I got my previous job through applying on Reed (2 years ago) however in the last few months I've applied for around 30 or so and had just 1 phone call. It seems like job hunting is just a lot more difficult than it used to be with so few jobs advertised yet so many applicants applying for them.

Give some of the other sites a try, Jobserve and Jobsite are quite good. Good luck with your job hunting, I know how you feel!

matt10001

K one more question do employer who use reed search your profile on reed or search by your cv, because my cv is just general and doesn't say what job I want.