Applying via agent vs applying directly

Mishomeister

There are a few jobs I am currently considering to put my application for. I ma however unsure whether I should go and apply directly with he companies I am interested in or via recruitment agencies.

Ther are obvious pros of doing it via recruiters.

Firstly a recruiter would be able to tell me what is the reward package which will obviously allow me to decise in the first place if the job is for me.
Secondly he may be able to help me to prepair for an interview and therefore inpromy my chances to succeed.
Thirdly going through recruiter sometimes allows to bypass some application stages which woul've ben there if I was to apply directly such as phone interview as the company would deem that the recruioter has interviewed you.

There is only one con of going thgrough the recruiter that I could think of which however makes me to doubt if going through th recruiter is best for me.

About a year ago I was looking for a job but had no ecent experience in my profession. One of the recruiters have told me that I am the best to apply directly with the companies as they are more likely to gove me a chance as they wil not have to pay the fee for hiring me to the recruiter.

This makes me to think that it is more likely to get a job direclty than via the recruiter.
The other thing is that I have been in my life in a number of job intrviews, some of which were arranged via recruiter and via me applying directly.

I have never managed to pass an interview arranged by the recuiter.

I am not sure if the above reason could've contributed to this.

Any good advice wil be much appreciated here.

sangie595

Mishomeister wrote: »

There are a few jobs I am currently considering to put my application for. I ma however unsure whether I should go and apply directly with he companies I am interested in or via recruitment agencies.

Ther are obvious pros of doing it via recruiters.

Firstly a recruiter would be able to tell me what is the reward package which will obviously allow me to decise in the first place if the job is for me.
Secondly he may be able to help me to prepair for an interview and therefore inpromy my chances to succeed.
Thirdly going through recruiter sometimes allows to bypass some application stages which woul've ben there if I was to apply directly such as phone interview as the company would deem that the recruioter has interviewed you.

There is only one con of going thgrough the recruiter that I could think of which however makes me to doubt if going through th recruiter is best for me.

About a year ago I was looking for a job but had no ecent experience in my profession. One of the recruiters have told me that I am the best to apply directly with the companies as they are more likely to gove me a chance as they wil not have to pay the fee for hiring me to the recruiter.

This makes me to think that it is more likely to get a job direclty than via the recruiter.
The other thing is that I have been in my life in a number of job intrviews, some of which were arranged via recruiter and via me applying directly.

I have never managed to pass an interview arranged by the recuiter.

I am not sure if the above reason could've contributed to this.

Any good advice wil be much appreciated here.

Agencies may also own spelling and grammar checkers?

Mishomeister

sangie595 wrote: »

Agencies may also own spelling and grammar checkers?

Sorry but in my busy life why would I spend time on checking the spelling for a forum message which I type very fast on my phone.

You make an assumption that my grammar in the forum is as bad as when I write formal letlers etc.

As they say assuming is making an a$$ of you and me.

This is not a gramar forum

ssparks2003

And you assume with an attitude like yours, others will rush around answering your question.

Mishomeister

To further clarify. I am created this thead to get an experienced based advice. I will be extremely grateful for any information on the query raised on initial topic.

I am not asking for an opinion on anything else here. If you have nothing useful to say on the op then please move on to some ofher tread and have a nice day.

I am not here for arguing with any one and ONLY need advice on the QUERY RAISED IN OP.
I appreciate people have an opinion on various matters, I woiuld however appreciate if you express you opinion on unrelated matters in a different place.

Thank you very much for understanding

Fireflyaway

I'd say apply for the jobs you want regardless of if its via an agency or not. In my experience agencies sometimes make jobs sound better than they are! The want the commission. They often advertise fake roles just to hook you in as well.
I've also found they can tell you what the salary might be but doesn't mean they will get you a good deal. Its in their interest to fill the position. If they get a good deal for a large company they will make more off repeat business from them than by getting one person a higher salary.
I've only found agencies useful for temp roles myself. However if you are skilled in a certain area specialist agencies might know about jobs that are not advertised elsewhere.

Fireflyaway

sangie595 wrote: »

Agencies may also own spelling and grammar checkers?

How do we know op might not speak English as a first language? He may be dyslexic or have a disability? Or maybe like me he has fat fingers and a small keypad?! He just came for help.

Mishomeister

Fireflyaway wrote: »

I'd say apply for the jobs you want regardless of if its via an agency or not. In my experience agencies sometimes make jobs sound better than they are! The want the commission. They often advertise fake roles just to hook you in as well.
I've also found they can tell you what the salary might be but doesn't mean they will get you a good deal. Its in their interest to fill the position. If they get a good deal for a large company they will make more off repeat business from them than by getting one person a higher salary.
I've only found agencies useful for temp roles myself. However if you are skilled in a certain area specialist agencies might know about jobs that are not advertised elsewhere.

Thank you Fire fly.

The jobs in question are available both directly and via recruiters. The agencies are indeed specialising in employing people from my professional field.

sangie595

Fireflyaway wrote: »

How do we know op might not speak English as a first language? He may be dyslexic or have a disability? Or maybe like me he has fat fingers and a small keypad?! He just came for help.

And who is to say that the reason they didn't get the previous jobs they applied for was because of similar carelessness in the application. A few spelling errors or predictive keyboard replacements is one thing - the post is almost incomprehensible in parts due to the numbers of them. If they don't speak English as a first language and this post was representative of their language skills then it would still be true. If dyslexic it would still be true. If they have a disability, it would still be true. Because none of those things mean that someone writes incomprehensibly. It is actually quite insulting to assume that such carelessness might be down to such reasons, when it is clearly down to carelessness and (as is apparent subsequently) a poor attitude. If the OP doesn't have time in their busy life to be understood, then perhaps they should save their posting until they aren't so busy.

andygb

Mishomeister wrote: »

Sorry but in my busy life why would I spend time on checking the spelling for a forum message which I type very fast on my phone.

You make an assumption that my grammar in the forum is as bad as when I write formal letlers etc.

As they say assuming is making an a$$ of you and me.

This is not a gramar forum

With all due respect, I suffer from quite severe problems with my hands, which means that I make mistakes frequently whilst typing.
I do however check my posts for errors, and if I miss any, then I will go back and edit them.
I generally find that if people are careless in their every day life, then they will be careless at work.

sangie595

andygb wrote: »

With all due respect, I suffer from quite severe problems with my hands, which means that I make mistakes frequently whilst typing.
I do however check my posts for errors, and if I miss any, then I will go back and edit them.
I generally find that if people are careless in their every day life, then they will be careless at work.

Quite, and I'm disabled which has utterly nothing to do with my sometimes idiotic errors, most of which are due to me not checking what my predictive keyboard wrote!!! The extent of the errors in the OP are not explicable, other than carelessness. That's an attitude, not a disability or language.