Why Do Recruitment Companies...

gettingready

pinpin wrote: »

Irrelevant, but to me, 'decent money' is anything above minimum wage.

Very relevant actually - why would anyone pay above minimum wage for a job that does not require experience if they can get experienced people or people on minimum wage?

Very relevant...

pinpin

gettingready wrote: »

Very relevant actually - why would anyone pay above minimum wage for a job that does not require experience if they can get experienced people?

Very relevant...

OK, so you're saying that the agency was lying and the job never existed?
If so, I think we're probably in agreement! lol

devilivus

gettingready wrote: »

Very relevant actually - why would anyone pay above minimum wage for a job that does not require experience if they can get experienced people or people on minimum wage?

Very relevant...

Loads of jobs pay more than minimum wage and don't require experience!!

gettingready

lufcgirl wrote: »

You read it right, every single person I put forward I meet! I don't understand why that is so hard to comprehend. Companies don't pay me £4k a time to find a CV and then speak for ten minutes and send it, I think they want a better service than that!

They trust my judgement and I have to make sure that person is perfect for the job. Just because I take care with who I put forward doesn't make me a bad consultant. It's not a sales exercise or anything, it is a professional service to companies we offer

That is fine but I have yet to come across a "recruitment consultant" who actually knows/understands my specialty/systems I work with /overlaps/cross use etc etc - when I find one I will be really happy.

Normally they just try to match key words from my CV to what client wants with zero understanding of the actual role. So they would be absolutely not in a position to judge my suitability for a role based on me meeting them

Which is fine by me - do not want to waste my time on travel to/from agency meet ups...:A

gettingready

devilivus wrote: »

Loads of jobs pay more than minimum wage and don't require experience!!

And yet we have so many people out of work... hmmmm

gettingready

pinpin wrote: »

OK, so you're saying that the agency was lying and the job never existed?
If so, I think we're probably in agreement! lol

Oh yes, here we are....

I see jobs advertised/re advertised all year round as "new/urgent" etc.

I just do not fall for it

devilivus

gettingready wrote: »

And yet we have so many people out of work... hmmmm

Who cares? I'm just pointing out the error in your post.

gettingready

And I am pointing an error in yours.

But as you said - who cares..

pinpin

devilivus wrote: »

Loads of jobs pay more than minimum wage and don't require experience!!

True. Just need a bit of luck or maybe knowledge to know where suh jobs are!
My brother worked as a tree surgeons assistant. Zero experience, and earnt nearly double the minimum wage!

dktreesea

I've had a lot of experience with recruitment agents in the past. Self employed now, so not on the market anymore, thank goodness. If you are in a job they ring you saying they have a "great opportunity". I always asked who with if the role they described interested me, and if they didn't tell me I know they are not on the level.


If they did tell me, I said I may be interested, took their details, sometimes arranged to go in and see them BUT I always rang the company in question beforehand, their HR department and said i had been approached by this particular agent, but wanted to check if this was a genuine opening AND if the agent was retained by them.


On a few occasions, it all checked out. But usually the company told me they didn't deal with that agency, or the job that had been decribed to me was fake, or they hired directly rather than through agents.


So I would call back the agent and say i had thought about it and decided not to go ahead, and of course they wanted to know why? I prevaricated, but then they would move into their real modus operandi, which was either trawling for candidates who may be interested in the "fake" job, and then moving onto the deeper reason as to whether I knew of anyone in hiring positions in a company whom I could introduce them to!


Awful and stupid, because in a city of even just 1 million people, where I was living at the time, it's still a small market. I would usually ring through my contacts and tell them to steer clear, or recommend the ones I knew were the real deal. People in professional positions often share info on recruiters, who to avoid, who are the genuine article. We don't all have a lot of time to waste, and if someone has wasted my time, I certainly don't want them inflicted on my friends and colleagues.