recruiter fraud

Multi_Power

There is a recruiting company that keeps posting for months a specific ad. I believe they do this to collect CVs, for whatever reason (maybe spam). Is there a way to snitch them to the regulatory organizations and have them investigated?

skintpaul

Email details to the (job search site?) webmaster, copy in any local office they may have too..

Multi_Power

I think there is an organization, called REC? or something?
or maybe the feds can do something?
maybe there are internet feds?

tomtontom

So you're planning to *snitch* on a recruiter to *the feds* for *maybe* collecting personal data for spamming ...

Are you having a *spezial* moment?

regprentice

Recruiters need a regulatory organisation but sadly they dont have one that i am aware of.

I think you just have to trust that karma will get them in the end. I'm sure i read that everyone who has ever been hit by lightning more than once was found to work in agency recruitment.

skintpaul

https://www.rec.uk.com/about-us

or

http://www.theior.org.uk/about-us ?

pmduk

It's likely that any dubious recruiters wouldn't belong to a professional body. The requirement for employment agencies was abolished in the 80's I believe

phill99

A very high percentage of jobs advertised by online recruiters don't exist. It's simply a way of getting CVs which they will then forward out to other companies hoping that they may be interested in you.

ChumLee

Multi_Power wrote: »

There is a recruiting company that keeps posting for months a specific ad. I believe they do this to collect CVs, for whatever reason (maybe spam). Is there a way to snitch them to the regulatory organizations and have them investigated?

More than likely they haven't found a suitable candidate.

Watergirl

Actually, most dubious recruiters tend to be from larger agencies, where they are heavily targetted by managers to register so many candidates per week, call so many clients per week, arrange so many interviews etc etc. As a result, some have very little interest in providing a quality service to candidates.

I used to be a member of one of the agency governing bodies, but after reporting a larger agency for unethical practice and seeing that nothing was done about it, I no longer wanted to be associated with them.

You will know if any agency is ethical by how they treat you and not by which governing body they are affiliated with, in my experience.

Why is the OP so bothered by this? Were you rejected by them for something? Sounds like you're bitter about something. Some agencies have preferred supplier agreements and often work the same jobs over and over. They may well continually need temps to feed into a large financial organisation for example.

Not sure what you would hope to achieve, but no, you can't do anything.

Multi_Power

I wasn't rejected or something
it's just they are a scam
they advertise the position months now and gather all the CV
their ad is about trainee, junior, senior, experienced, manager at the same time!
it's an obvious scam