UK Recruitment and Workcircle

andygb

Since my temp job ended before Christmas, I have been hot on the trail of more work, alas with no luck as yet.
However, I use Universal Jobs Match each day, and I keep coming across two names which are supposedly agencies and have job vacancies - UK Recruitment (which I posted about last year) and Workcircle.
I would like feedback from any others on here who have been frustrated by dealing with either of these companies.
Although I signed up to UK Recruitment (something you have to do in order to apply for an advertised job vacancy), none of the jobs actually existed - "This vacancy no longer exists", and you are then redirected to another page containing totally random jobs.
I asked to have my details removed from UK Recruitment and then found that it was ignored and I suddenly found my inbox crammed with more spam emails.
I have noticed that Workcircle appear to have similar vacancies to UK Recruitment, so I was wondering if they are yet another spamming/scamming site.:(

directdebiter

Both those companies mentioned do seem to clog up Universal Job Match with jobs but just redirect you to other third party jobsites. I do not think that Universal Job Match should have "job aggregators" on theoir website that just redirect visitors to other sites as this does reduce the quality and like you say often jobs will not be live after youy have clicked. Workcircle and UKRecruitment seem to be the main culprits here.

andygb

directdebiter wrote: »

Both those companies mentioned do seem to clog up Universal Job Match with jobs but just redirect you to other third party jobsites. I do not think that Universal Job Match should have "job aggregators" on theoir website that just redirect visitors to other sites as this does reduce the quality and like you say often jobs will not be live after youy have clicked. Workcircle and UKRecruitment seem to be the main culprits here.

Cheers, I didn't think that I was imagining it.
The other problem I am finding, is that many, and I do mean many, jobs are being duplicated.:(

The_ICT_Engineer

Both are suspect, The address for UK Recruitment is for a Glasgow based virtual office service http://www.bluesquareoffices.com/

The same with Workcircle which uses a mail drop in Cockfosters to which dozens of companies are also using the same address as Workcircle http://www.addressesandpostcodes.co.uk/address/ch-eTQom55m/tutorfair-limited-suite-3b2-northside-house-mount-pleasant-cockfosters-en4-9eb.html

Both sites don't list a phone number, This indeed a scam as both want you to click through their site (Which they get a fee) to other sites. I.e CV-Library, Reed

The DWP turn a blind eye to this, As it improves the figures as to the number of Jobs available.

directdebiter

I don't really understand why Universal Job Match allows these aggregators to dump all their jobs on the site just to make money from clicks rather than being able to process applications. Especially as if you say above they are just virtual offices. Not good and they need to take them off the site to avoid wasting job search time.

The_ICT_Engineer

directdebiter wrote: »

I don't really understand why Universal Job Match allows these aggregators to dump all their jobs on the site just to make money from clicks rather than being able to process applications. Especially as if you say above they are just virtual offices. Not good and they need to take them off the site to avoid wasting job search time.

For the reason above, So Ian Dimwit Smith can puff his bloated chest out in the House of Commons and boast that there are X number of jobs available, when the true figure is much lower.

directdebiter

The_ICT_Engineer wrote: »

For the reason above, So Ian Dimwit Smith can puff his bloated chest out in the House of Commons and boast that there are X number of jobs available, when the true figure is much lower.

OK makes sense now :-)

andygb

Meanwhile the press/media are always saying that there are plenty of jobs available.

geminilady

I applied for one of these "jobs" and get loads of emails filling up my in box even "interviews" for jobs that I have not applied for.They mention packing jobs paying £10 an hour lol,I wish.

andygb

geminilady wrote: »

I applied for one of these "jobs" and get loads of emails filling up my in box even "interviews" for jobs that I have not applied for.They mention packing jobs paying £10 an hour lol,I wish.

Same here, just what we do not need to waste our time when we are genuinely trying to find work:mad: