Agencies Advertising Fictitious Jobs

Truegho

A lot of these employment agencies are advertising fictitious jobs. I am very surprised they have been allowed to get away with it for so long. Such devious tactics certainly aren't helping the plight of the jobless; they are only exacerbating it.

CCFC_80

Truegho wrote: »

A lot of these employment agencies are advertising fictitious jobs. I am very surprised they have been allowed to get away with it for so long. Such devious tactics certainly aren't helping the plight of the jobless; they are only exacerbating it.

Tell me about it!:mad:. They unbelievably get away with it by stating it isn't a live vacancy and an example of a vacancy they could be recruiting for in the immediate future.

I believe that they are not allowed to advertised for phantom jobs and there are processes in place for reporting them if they do this.

jimmy2times

They do definietly do this, the swines!!!

Truegho

CCFC_80 wrote: »

Tell me about it!:mad:. They unbelievably get away with it by stating it isn't a live vacancy and an example of a vacancy they could be recruiting for in the immediate future.

I believe that they are not allowed to advertised for phantom jobs and there are processes in place for reporting them if they do this.

Well, in that case, better start preparing my long list of agencies guilty of this.

Free_Spirit_31

They do it to hit weekly targets by signing people up.

They come off with the usual spiel "Oh, I have just recruited for a job that recently would have been perfect for you.."

"One of my clients is going to be recruiting soon and you would be suitable for them"

Then, you never hear from them again. Unless YOU chase them up for updates.

I had a recruitment consultant saying that she wants me to get the job she was once recruiting for. I later got a job, without her 'help' I actually applied directly with an employer and I have since found that she is recruiting for a company I currently work for!

I was told by an ex recruitment consultant that they get as many CVs as possible and then use your employment history as leads.

mattcanary

Free_Spirit_31 wrote: »

They do it to hit weekly targets by signing people up.

They come off with the usual spiel "Oh, I have just recruited for a job that recently would have been perfect for you.."

"One of my clients is going to be recruiting soon and you would be suitable for them"

Then, you never hear from them again. Unless YOU chase them up for updates.

I had a recruitment consultant saying that she wants me to get the job she was once recruiting for. I later got a job, without her 'help' I actually applied directly with an employer and I have since found that she is recruiting for a company I currently work for!

I was told by an ex recruitment consultant that they get as many CVs as possible and then use your employment history as leads.

What I don't get is why don't they just ask people to register with them without telling you there is a job (that is non-existent).


Surely it would be in people's interests to send agencies their CV anyway as then presumably they could be contacted by the agency if a suitable job does come up in the future.


I record people's contact details at the British Heart Foundation in my voluntary job if they come into the store and we don't have in stock the item they are looking for. We can then call the customer back when a suitable item does arrive on the shopfloor.
In essence, what is the difference?


It's not as if many people don't know that agencies routinely advertise fake jobs, so why should agencies think this behaviour serves any useful purpose to them??!!

girlcalledpanda

I can believe it, I think it's to look busy?

mattcanary

girlcalledpanda wrote: »

I can believe it, I think it's to look busy?

You're probably right.


A lot of people like to look busy at work without really doing anything worthwhile.




Of course, such behaviour is likely to put people off because they then think the agency can't be trusted.

CCFC_80

Truegho wrote: »

Well, in that case, better start preparing my long list of agencies guilty of this.

It's going to be difficult to prove. They are not likely to admit that they are advertising a phantom job

brightonman123

Ask for a job spec- if its a real job (and you're registered with agency), they should have this on file* to email you -


* otherwise, how are they going to source the right person'..?


Or ask details of job - location / rate / duration, if temping.. if they go vague, then most likely phishing for numbers..


I've had temp agencies say "its ongoing", but surely the client would have said how long they need staff for (minimum / maximum?

regprentice

mattcanary wrote: »

What I don't get is why don't they just ask people to register with them without telling you there is a job (that is non-existent).

Surely it would be in people's interests to send agencies their CV anyway as then presumably they could be contacted by the agency if a suitable job does come up

last time i was registering with agencies (about 6 years ago) they were very aggressive about you being registered at more than 2 other agencies. This was supposedly to stop you being put forward more than once for the same role by different agencies.

This wouldn't surprise me at all as I often see 4 or 5 adverts from different agencies pop up which are clearly for a single role. I've advertised on gumtree in the past for staff and found that agencies i hadn't even spoken to had created online ads for the role i was advertising with a view to coldcalling me with a pile of interested candidates cv's.

In fact i expect to be looking again soon as expecting redundancy.... and of the 1200 suitable finance jobs* in edinburgh listed on a single website i doubt more than 50 'real' roles exist.

* searching for 'analyst' in edinburgh on indeed.com