Are recruitment agents jobless in their job too?

Mersey_2

ACS in Liverpool was found to be placing bogus and multiple identical job vacancies for paralegal work in the Merseyside area. Best avoiding.

Mersey_2

Axomoxia - interestly, it's the large firms with HR departments who all seem to use agencies. I know some firms with 2 or 3 in HR and yet they still use agencies.

Murphymycat

Treehugged wrote: »

Oh sorry I saw this link in your post: http://www.charityjob.co.uk
and assumed you were also looking for work in the charity and NFP sector. :cool:

NFP = Not For Profit.

I just had a look at this site. Most of the "jobs" advertised are for unpaid volunteers!

tosyn

Murphymycat wrote: »

I just had a look at this site. Most of the "jobs" advertised are for unpaid volunteers!

Yes, there are a lot of well paying jobs in London area as I see it.

1940sGal

I called a recruitment agency after seeing a job posted on the job centre website. It had only been posted that day so i called them and got asked to their office where I had a sort of interview and had to fill in a ton of paperwork. After which i got told that actually the job wasn't available but it might be should orders pick up. In the meantime I should phone in each day to check if any jobs were available.

Despite saying this i think they got fed up of me calling everyday and told me they would call me. I never heard a thing from them.

tosyn

Now a days in the hard hit economic weather, everyone is interested in "clinging" to their own job, rather than doing it to satisfactory levels.

I get a feeling that all these fake job adverts and covering up of information is a part of that clinging attempt. Not just recruiting agents, even the managers of hiring companies themselves could be adopting this strategy because talking to recruitment agents can of course be a "filling up" and "be busy" looks.

wimblewomble_2

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tosyn

Another common pattern in response - The client has found one "internal candidate" to fullfil the role. !