Recruitment Agencies Are Useless!!

raff456

complete and utter trash are work agencies. The people have no insight to the time and effort you put into finding work! Then there is the cost of IF you do get an interview and are one of many that DON'T DRIVE; then you are looking at the cost of travel, time and effort! After many months of job hunting and finally you think....YES AN INTERVIEW AT LAST! only to travel miles and pay out a fortune on travel and be all ''prepared'' for what is a 5 minute interview to find the person has NO INTERVIEW SKILLS (and you could get better intelligence from a dog doing tricks!) to finally have your day ruined be out of pocket and with no feedback....and these are the people the job center want you to apply to go also. Unemployed people know how hard it is to get a job and is a job in itself finding work. However, manners cost nothing in this world but people are ignorant in their approach and demeanor. That goes for the job centers too!

[Deleted User]

Do anyone get the silly emails from Reed direct about applying for their Recruitment Consultant jobs?!? I so want to reply with I don't thank the branch manager would like that!

I remember upsetting one when I said all interviews are quite subjective, aren't they! before, then afters I got the most genuine feedback ever that I could have thanked them for "there was just someone they (the client) liked more..." really schoolish were the actual words, so upset them enough and sure enough, you might just get some honesty, though this was with chasing them on the day the job was meant to start

Total love/hate relationship here, can't be bothered with them right now, realise I must be fortunate not to be 'forced' to engage with them is all I can say

Wantobeasaver

Deleted%20User wrote: »

Do anyone get the silly emails from Reed direct about applying for their Recruitment Consultant jobs?!? I so want to reply with I don't thank the branch manager would like that!

Never had that but did make me smile!

To be honest I realise people have a good reason not to like them but they did get me out of a hole after leaving uni, between a rock & a hard place with agencies..

Dizzy_Ditzy

I'm glad this thread has been resurrected. Reading this, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has had trouble with agencies the jobs they used to speak to me about that were totally inappropriate- too far away, completely different to my skills and what not.m

I was with one agency who were very good to me and opened doors that might not otherwise have stayed firmly shut.

I am looking for a job at the mo and it is very apparent that different agencies are advertising the same jobs.

What REALLY annoys me is how they judge people on appearance too. I know someone who went trawling to loads of agencies in the city, and they were blatantly judging her on her appearance. She is overweight but otherwise looked presentable with every visit

I will try as hard as I can to avoid agencies while I have a choice

DKLS

I thought I knew the majority of agent trickery but have discovered a new one, a couple of them have recently tried NLP to persuade me to take a job that doesn't fit my requirements.

No I won't accept half my usual rate for this "career defining opportunity"

makeyourdaddyproud

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

I'm glad this thread has been resurrected. Reading this, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has had trouble with agencies the jobs they used to speak to me about that were totally inappropriate- too far away, completely different to my skills and what not.m

I was with one agency who were very good to me and opened doors that might not otherwise have stayed firmly shut.

I am looking for a job at the mo and it is very apparent that different agencies are advertising the same jobs.

What REALLY annoys me is how they judge people on appearance too. I know someone who went trawling to loads of agencies in the city, and they were blatantly judging her on her appearance. She is overweight but otherwise looked presentable with every visit

I will try as hard as I can to avoid agencies while I have a choice

I dislike agencies with a passion but so long as you accept their presence and their value fit to employers, they become more tolerable.

Agencies are business like any other; they depend on placements, sales staff who ever readily promote their subjects and only respect the bottom line (sales, bums on seats).

Just like you they also have bills to pay, a job to stay loyal to, a boss to appease in every way shape or form.

The best course of action is to accept them. They will always be an integral part of the jigsaw puzzle we call the employment process. You may even be on the favourable end of this relationship one day.

Dizzy_Ditzy

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

I dislike agencies with a passion but so long as you accept their presence and their value fit to employers, they become more tolerable.

Agencies are business like any other; they depend on placements, sales staff who ever readily promote their subjects and only respect the bottom line (sales, bums on seats).

Just like you they also have bills to pay, a job to stay loyal to, a boss to appease in every way shape or form.

The best course of action is to accept them. They will always be an integral part of the jigsaw puzzle we call the employment process. You may even be on the favourable end of this relationship one day.

But they don't have to be so rude and disrespectful in the process. If I was like that in my job, as with so many jobs, we'd be screwed

Wantobeasaver

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

What REALLY annoys me is how they judge people on appearance too. I know someone who went trawling to loads of agencies in the city, and they were blatantly judging her on her appearance. She is overweight but otherwise looked presentable with every visit

Yes unfortunately true, especially with admin/secretary/PA roles

jbond

lufcgirl wrote: »

If you want an example of keeping a candidate in mind. I specifically deal with hospitality recruitment across the UK. I had a guy based in an area of the UK where there weren't any vacancies, but he was happy to relocate - he just wanted a job.

So I kept in touch and was calling him once or twice a day with new positions I had, sent his CV to one place who were extremely interested and wanted to see him ASAP - good role paying around £25k per year. So I arranged the interview, day before the interview at 5pm the guy texts me and says he's took a job working in the local Tesco and now isn't looking!

I had that guy forward for about eight different roles and then he let me down when he had a fantastic opportunity. I'd done all I possibly could as a consultant for that to happen.

I have to say I echo the sentiments of many people here. I hate recruitment agencies with a passion (due to past experience), and will do anything I can to avoid them.
Just some observations though, I'd like to make regarding the above:

1) You state that "he just wanted a job", i.e. any job?
2) Although you say there weren't any vacancies in his area, he was obviously still looking out for jobs in his local area.
3) This might be obvious to you, but even though you had an interview arranged for him, there was never any GUARANTEE that he would be offered the job.
4) You should be grateful that he told you THE DAY BEFORE that he'd got a job, and as such wasn't interested.
5) Whether you had the guy down for eight different roles or not, I feel is really irrelevant. What counts is the responses you get back, i.e. requests for interviews.
6) As far as you feeling let down, I don't see it that way. The only way you've been 'let down' is because you're not going to get paid through placing HIM in a job (if he was successful).
7) What I would say though, is that maybe he could have tried to arrange to go to the interview anyway, but if he decided that he was happy where he was, then so be it.

Personally, if the vast majority of businesses were efficient in their recruitment processes, then we wouldn't really need recruitment agencies. To me, they are really just a middleman, and nothing else.

TheRecruiter

This post cracks me up. Most of you have absolutely no idea what recruitment involves, the comments show your ignorance and it's no surprise that you've had no luck finding a job.

Complaining that the agency makes a mark up on your contract of £4 p/h haha - do you realise how little profit this is? IT's probably 15% - 20% ish - do you know how many other SERVICE based organisations work to this margin?? NONE!

Look at restaurants, do you ask to see how much their wholesale food costs them? You'll pay £5 for a desert that costs £1 or less but god forbid a recruiter makes 15% margin.

Good recruiters make a lot of money, £80k - £100k + isn't unusual, if they do so little for this money and it's so easy why don't you try it instead of moaning about how little they do for you.

The reality is that recruitment is difficult and it's made harder by idiots applying for jobs that they're completely unsuitable for then wondering why the phone never rings.

We get paid on commission, if you're any good, we'll call. If we don't call then guess what...