Agencies Advertising Fictitious Jobs

pmduk

Most phantom jobs are to be found on the Gov'ts Universal Jobmatch. that thing would be a joke, except there's nothing funny about it.

Linda_D_2

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.

Unfortunately a lot of them do this, it should be made a criminal offence and these scumbag leech agencies closed down

directdebiter

welcome to the world of jobseeking

No lie - I even saw an advert once that had the title: "fake job"
The recruiter forgot to amend the title and posted it on a jobsite
:rotfl:

CCFC_80

directdebiter wrote: »

welcome to the world of jobseeking

No lie - I even saw an advert once that had the title: "fake job"
The recruiter forgot to amend the title and posted it on a jobsite
:rotfl:

Brilliant, did it have in the job description......

Purpose,to get in as many CV's as possible to provide us incompetent Recruitment Agents with as many Job leads as possible so when a job vacancy comes about us Recruitment consultants can get on our high horse and state "look we have got millions of CV's to send you, Aren't we great?":D

InsideInsurance

The problem is that there is a lot of competition out there and so you get a number of scenarios:

1) Client mentions a potential job, agency starts advertising it to steal a march on their competitors so that if it does materialise they have candidates ready to put forward - inevitably not all do materialise

2) Client does instruct agency but changes their mind for one of a variety of reasons (project canned, no candidates have the required skills so they change the remit, switch from wanting perm to temp or visa versa etc) - job gets pulled

3) Non-client has a job going, agency tries to find the perfect client so that they accept them and the agency becomes a client - some companies have a very tightly controlled lists of agencies and wont consider candidates that arent from the selected agencies

4) Purely fictitious role - either to build their candidate database of current searchers or just to appear busy to clients etc

Bar number 4 its arguable if they have falsely advertised something or not

Having sat on both side of the fence they are an unfortunately necessary thing to exist and you simply roll with the punches. I've certainly spoken to agents about jobs that never happened but then I've also spoken to the same agent at a later date and then got work from them.

scooby088

Well this morning I was looking on ujm and the same job was advertised by the employer direct and an agency, guess which one I applied to. But the only difference between adverts was the agency put the hourly rate of pay on.

I-W

I remember once (probably about 10 years ago) actually traveling over 2 hours to get to a "job interview" only to find out it was an agency and the job didn't exist. As wasn't experienced at the time just quietly signed up (now would tell them where to go) and never heard from them again. Don't know if they are using the same methods still as luckily I haven't had to deal with agencies for a long time now.

27yearoldmale

I'm an ex agency recruiter.

Fictitious jobs serve 2 purposes:

1: Opportunity for agent to find out where you are interviewing so said agent can approach the interviewer/Client in respect of supplying CV's and making commision.

2. ''Verbal references'' - said agent will blag you an excuse about the job and proceed to ask for your previous referee's which said agent will 'pitch' in order to gain business and make commision.

The recruitment industry is built on lies and deceit. It is all about commission. If you are not a potential deal or £ to the agent then you are of no interest.

And this is why I left the agency side and moved in-house.

Ronaldo_Mconaldo

Here's an email I got a few years ago:

Just a short note to touch base to ask for your assistance with a matter if I may?
Adam C left ML in September and I wanted to enquire as to whether or not he has been in touch with you please.
Adam now works for an organisation called MM.
It has come to my attention that he has been contacting candidates and clients directly, despite his contractual obligations to protect our network. This is potentially a serious matter and we would appreciate your response.
Please advise me if he has been in touch - thank you in advance for your help.
Kind regards,

A different issue altogether but I thought it was hilarious that some dodgy liitle agency run by a bunch of teenagers it seemed, who I'd applied through, met up with and then never heard back from got in touch with me so that I could do them a favour.

Also 'touch base'? I hope that the parents of these people feel nothing but shame.

CCFC_80

InsideInsurance wrote: »

Having sat on both side of the fence they are an unfortunately necessary thing to exist and you simply roll with the punches. I've certainly spoken to agents about jobs that never happened but then I've also spoken to the same agent at a later date and then got work from them.

But why?? 30 or 40 years ago, you wouldn't have found the word Recruitment consultant in The Dictionary. Companies still had no trouble filling vacancies particularly in specialist roles.