Recruitment Agencies Are Useless!!
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They aren't miracle workers. With the attitude that you display on here, it's not going to be easy for even the best to get you placed in a job.
Kudos to them for even speaking to you, given how you appear to view them.
I am sure that Hardboiled speaks for many of us on this forum who find dealing with recruitment agencies incredibly hard work. When you register with them they pretend to be your best friend then after that they treat you like c**p.
A lot of them are deceitful and arrogant and just use candidates who register with them to provide them with job leads for their marketing purposes. They will want to especially know what interviews you have lined up so that they can put their candidates up against you for that role. My advice is never to tell them this as you could be losing your next potential job.
Oh, and if you are fortunate enough to get an interview the agency will likely phone you up about 30 minutes before the interview as they say they want to wish you good luck. Believe me they are not doing it for this but they want to make sure that you turn up as they don't want to upset their little darling clients with a no show.0 -
Yes, recruitment agencies are a paradise for lying, deceitful and greedy sales urchins to ply their wares with immunity.0
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I have had many bad experiences with recruiters (the joys of being a contractor).
But, as with any other experience in life, you have to take each on it's own merits. You can't tar them all with the same brush, and every now and again, you find a good one (shame about the rest though!!)
I second the previous advice about applying directly wherever you can though. If you think you know the company or get told by the recruiter and not put forward, then search linkedin and/or other jobsites for the company advertising directly.
Search through your linkedin contacts and see if you are linked with anyone else that works (or has worked) in the same company and chance your arm with finding the hiring managers name to connect with them also.0 -
It would be great if we could go back to the time where companies advertised jobs directly.
I hate agencies. I have had one good experience with them, I must admit (they got me a job within about 2 days which was within walking distance of my home) but I think that was blind luck. They're usually terrible.
They lie and lie. They all advertise jobs that sound ideal that don't exist.
The job has magically disappeared in the time between your phonecall with the and your registering with them a day later. (And yet is still advertised for weeks and weeks after)
They send you on jobs that you say you don't want to do by lying to you about what the role involves.
Like someone else mentioned, they are your best friend when you are registering with them, but as soon as you're on their books it all changes!
If you miss a phonecall 'cos you're in the shower, you're in the bad books! (but it's fine for them to ignore you all they want, lol)0 -
makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »Contractor for 27 years and you still can't get an interview?
That's worrying.
Yep. My brother is also an IT contractor but specialises in a different area. He has work at the moment with the chance that he might get to work overseas next but both of us are worried. Neither of us are seeing much work advertised. My brother just told me how there was a position advertised for 4 years, it was with the Halifax and of course it didn't exist!0 -
I'm just about to start my third job in my career and, well... all three were through direct applications to the companies. I'm convinced I wouldn't have got any of these jobs if it had been through agencies.
I've had some dealings with recruitment agencies when looking for my first job and they were just useless. Same when looking for the second job. Now, with six years of experience and in a job where demand is high, I got a fair amount of calls but half of them were for jobs that weren't suitable at all (what, you don't want to take a £6k pay cut but have the chance to work your way up? and you don't want to commute three hours / way either?). Also had the usual harassing (three phone calls, voice mails, emails and text messages within 10 minutes!!!) when they wanted to talk to you - and the expectation you can jump when they think ("Can you get back to me within 10 minutes? What, you're at work? - Well, what do you think!)
To be fair, I did get one interview for a job I applied for through an agency but turned that down as I had accepted another job the very same day. That was one of the very few good recruiters who understood the job, the requirements and was pleasant to deal with.
Having recruited myself, I much prefer advertising directly - that way, at least you know people are interested in the job and company (after all, they know where they're applying right away), you may find interesting people agencies would have screened out as you get to see all CVs and it's much, much easier to deal with candidates directly.0 -
How disappointing! I'm an agency recruiter in the engineering sector and can empathise with what a lot of you are saying. I can do this because I know first hand how a lot of recruiters operate. It's a shame but it's always been a client driven playing field and quite often the Candidate's get neglected because of this. Our current economic climate further shifts things into the client's favour too which doesn't help. I personally however take pride in backing my candidates just as much as my clients and have missed out on placements in the past because I warned the candidate about issues or conflicts pertaining to the job/company. I am aware not a lot of recruiters would do this. But my point is that we are not all the same and you shouldn't give up faith in ALL recruitment agencies, we all have different work ethics. I'm only speaking for myself but I prefer to win my clients/candidates over with good will rather than employ bully tactics. There are other recruiters out there who do the same and am proud to say our company does its very best to not only please the clients (the money) but also the Candidates (the talent). We understand it takes two to tango. Hope some of you can relate to what I'm saying.0
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Erm my agency got me 3 month contract after I stepped in last minute when another temp let them down. Wage is the same as my previous job but better work environment. I phoned them every day after registering, so my name was first in their mind. You have to be persistent. Go in the office, phone them and I also.agree about tweaking your CV. Talking to.another temp yesterday, we swopped notes on which.agencies were rubbish and which ones got you work. Don't turn down your first agency job because they won't offer again. Once you get your foot in the door, they will get you jobs especially if you do a good job at placements. Good luck.everyone.0
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I found a couple that were OK, but the majority were poor. Lowered wages without telling me, didn't inform me of holiday pay, etc. I once said I would not work a late shift......no surprises where they tried to send me0
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Very frustrating experience with agencies.
I applied for one position for a sales trainee role looking for people with experience in my field, no sales experience required.
What did I get turned down on? not enough sales experience!0
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