Candidates - Things To Be Aware Of When Using A Recruitment Agency

CCFC_80

cavework wrote: »

It will cost the client if after scanning a couple of these CV's he then after interview decides to employ one of the applicants put through by the agency because they are the best..and he is aware of this and may well be prepared to pay it for the right applicant
Also some people seem to assume that the agencies they register with could not possibly already have contact with some employers they have worked for in the past or have already applied to.
It's assumed the agencies don't actively look for vacancies that have been advertised independently.
They do not just sit there randomly registering people just to get leads. If the vacancies are not filled they make no money

A high percentage of them do though !!!

Sammyantha

cavework wrote: »

It will cost the client if after scanning a couple of these CV's he then after interview decides to employ one of the applicants put through by the agency because they are the best..and he is aware of this and may well be prepared to pay it for the right applicant
Also some people seem to assume that the agencies they register with could not possibly already have contact with some employers they have worked for in the past or have already applied to.
It's assumed the agencies don't actively look for vacancies that have been advertised independently.
They do not just sit there randomly registering people just to get leads. If the vacancies are not filled they make no money

Give up if I were you Cavework. You're just feeding the trolls now, since they have no plans to listen to anyone but themselves.

JaaneThePain

Hi Guys,

I wonder if any of you guy's have ever used a company called "people for work"?

They seem to be so unprofessional, i am constantly chasing them for updates and they never seem interested?

J

cavework

Sammyantha wrote: »

Give up if I were you Cavework. You're just feeding the trolls now, since they have no plans to listen to anyone but themselves.

Not giving up Sammyantha, but I think I have said all I can on the subject.
:beer:

axomoxia

cavework wrote: »

It will cost the client if after scanning a couple of these CV's he then after interview decides to employ one of the applicants put through by the agency because they are the best..and he is aware of this and may well be prepared to pay it for the right applicant

What are you wittering on about? Its going to cost the client the roughly the same to get a candidate from agency X as from new interloper agency Y, assuming the finders fee rates are roughly the same. As far as I am aware agencies don't charge clients to look at CVs.

CCFC_80

Sammyantha wrote: »

Give up if I were you Cavework. You're just feeding the trolls now, since they have no plans to listen to anyone but themselves.

Sammyantha, before tarring us all with the same brush as trolls like you say we have done regarding all recruitment consultants, I would suggest you look at the number of posts that myself and all the other people on this forum that you have strongly disagreed with have made on all parts of this MSE forum. There are a lot of people out there who hate Recruitment Agencies and everything they stand for. You will find that none of the people who have responded in this thread are so called trolls.

PS.exception being the previously poster to this (post 195)who we have to give the benefit of the doubt.

jay_1978

I am not saying this is gospel but I heard agency's get a little extra from the government for getting people on the books, Not sure if this is true but from the way they act It seems pretty likely.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

axomoxia wrote: »

Now, I've had agents ask "Where have you been put forward too, so we don't duplicate your application".

It is also duplicate speak for

just bloody tell me where your CV has been so I don't waste 2 days of my time flogging a dead horse & looking like an idiot to clients

1984ReturnsForReal_2

jay_1978 wrote: »

I am not saying this is gospel but I heard agency's get a little extra from the government for getting people on the books, Not sure if this is true but from the way they act It seems pretty likely.

They used to get a couple of hundred for employing people that had been unemployed for 6 months +

axomoxia

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

just bloody tell me where your CV has been so I don't waste 2 days of my time flogging a dead horse & looking like an idiot to clients

So, you put forward candidates without checking with them first? Surely, if you'd enough grey matter to keep your ears apart, you'd check with the candidate before you spent two days faffing around? Especially as these days its on a role by role basis? What exactly are you spending two days doing?

Because I thought this was how it worked.

Agent: I have roles A, B and C at Clients X, Y, Z
Candidate: I have been put forward for A at X, B and Y, but not C at Z. Please represent me for C at Z.