Agencies that do nothing?

wapow

Im confused with this thread. Its like three people asking something different.

LadyMissA -
Possible to make a new thread, your quals, location, experience. Maybe someone can help you locate?

LadyMissA

wapow wrote: »

Im confused with this thread. Its like three people asking something different.

LadyMissA -
Possible to make a new thread, your quals, location, experience. Maybe someone can help you locate?

Help me locate? What? A job? This is not a board for adverts is it.

wapow

LadyMissA wrote: »

Help me locate? What? A job? This is not a board for adverts is it.

The keyword being "help" love. Take it as you will. Or continue to hijack other peoples threads.

LadyMissA

wapow wrote: »

The keyword being "help" love. Take it as you will. Or continue to hijack other peoples threads.

thanks LOVE!

wapow

LadyMissA wrote: »

thanks LOVE!

Just press the "Thanks" button duck. No need for a reply :T

LadyMissA

wapow wrote: »

Just press the "Thanks" button duck. No need for a reply :T

it's called sarcasm mate!

wapow

LadyMissA wrote: »

This is not a board for adverts is it.....
thanks LOVE!
it's called sarcasm mate!

This is not a board to showcase your moronic attempts at sarcasm/. :T

tryfan

Idiophreak wrote: »

Agencies work very much on a you-scratch-my-back basis.

The jobs you're seeing are probably being offered to people who've done a number of other, much worse, jobs for them in the past.

In order to play the game, you have to get on the ladder...Look past the warehouse operatives and the junior IT technicians and look at the drivers' mates and the chemical cleaning operatives...these are the jobs you actually stand a chance of being placed at.

Agents are also incredibly lazy. They don't work on a first-come first-served basis and they don't really care whether they help you, or one of the other 1000 unemployed folks they have on their books. So, it works like this.

1) They get a call asking for someone to do a job.
2) They think about whether any of their "regulars" are available.
3) If not, they wait.
4) The phone rings. It's the lucky caller!

The only way to get a job through them is to call them at least once a day, if not twice...and make it clear that you're just going to hassle them until they give you something. Once you've done a few rubbish jobs for them and proved that you turn up on time and put in a decent shift, they'll start looking at placing you with their better clients.

This is exactly me experience with the several agencies I have worked through. You prove yourself at the rubbish jobs then they get you more hours, better jobs after that. Getting that first job is the hardest bit, I used to go to the office, smartly dressed, CV in hand and basically offer to do anything.