Best Recruitment Agent
#31
Re: Best Recruitment Agent
The guy I was dealing with had actually understood the client's requirements. He also did a lot of reasearch for me to help with understnding the environment of the job so made a big difference for both myself and the interviewers at that stage. Mind you, that was the first time I had been interviewed whilst sitting in bed, drinking coffee and having a cat asleep on my lap!!!! (all 2 hours of it)
#33
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Today you are a candidate but tomorrow you may well be the hirer. In this case, keeping you happy is as important as keeping "the Company", which, incidentally is not the body corporate but a group of individuals where the agency will have contact with just a few people, happy.
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Following your thought out and articulate response, have you ever considered that the agencies may want to work with you. Perhaps it is your attituide which makes them act the way thay appear to do to you.
Today you are a candidate but tomorrow you may well be the hirer. I do agree with this In this case, keeping you happy is as important as keeping "the Company", which, incidentally is not the body corporate but a group of individuals where the agency will have contact with just a few people, happy.
Today you are a candidate but tomorrow you may well be the hirer. I do agree with this In this case, keeping you happy is as important as keeping "the Company", which, incidentally is not the body corporate but a group of individuals where the agency will have contact with just a few people, happy.
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Re: Best Recruitment Agent
Typical phonecall:
You - can I please speak to Jenny Smith (or whoever).
Them - Sure, can I tell her who is calling and what it is in connection with?
You - Yes it is Susan Jones reference a job I saw advertised on Seek.com.
Them - Oh sorry Jenny is with a client at the moment, can I get your number and she will call you back........
You - can I please speak to Jenny Smith (or whoever).
Them - Sure, can I tell her who is calling and what it is in connection with?
You - Yes it is Susan Jones reference a job I saw advertised on Seek.com.
Them - Oh sorry Jenny is with a client at the moment, can I get your number and she will call you back........
For me it goes a little something like this:-
Agency posts a bogus job on Seek.
Loads of people apply.
Agency calls you and tells you you're a great fit and they want to put you forwards but they need to do reference checks.
Agency calls references. "I understand you used to be Johnie's manager. He has applied for a bogus job, sorry job, through us. Tell me about Johnie, was he any good?"
Reference starts talking about me..
Agency interrupts, "ok thank you very much, by the way are you looking for any one yourself?"
Referee replies "no not at the moment". A little perplexed as to why he couldn't finish the reference check.
Agency, "That's great, how about you give me your fax number anyone so I can forward you a couple of hundred CVs anyway?"
#36
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For me it goes a little something like this:-
Agency posts a bogus job on Seek.
Loads of people apply.
Agency calls you and tells you you're a great fit and they want to put you forwards but they need to do reference checks.
Agency calls references. "I understand you used to be Johnie's manager. He has applied for a bogus job, sorry job, through us. Tell me about Johnie, was he any good?"
Reference starts talking about me..
Agency interrupts, "ok thank you very much, by the way are you looking for any one yourself?"
Referee replies "no not at the moment". A little perplexed as to why he couldn't finish the reference check.
Agency, "That's great, how about you give me your fax number anyone so I can forward you a couple of hundred CVs anyway?"
Agency posts a bogus job on Seek.
Loads of people apply.
Agency calls you and tells you you're a great fit and they want to put you forwards but they need to do reference checks.
Agency calls references. "I understand you used to be Johnie's manager. He has applied for a bogus job, sorry job, through us. Tell me about Johnie, was he any good?"
Reference starts talking about me..
Agency interrupts, "ok thank you very much, by the way are you looking for any one yourself?"
Referee replies "no not at the moment". A little perplexed as to why he couldn't finish the reference check.
Agency, "That's great, how about you give me your fax number anyone so I can forward you a couple of hundred CVs anyway?"
#38
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Re: Best Recruitment Agent
All recruitment agencies are run by sales people. They often have very little knowledge of the expertise that you have and yet they treat you like sh1t.
Smile at the agents and try to be nice to them. Use them to your advantage, as they use you: It as a means to an end.
Glorified used car salesmen (mostly)
PS There are always exceptions: but they are rare.
Smile at the agents and try to be nice to them. Use them to your advantage, as they use you: It as a means to an end.
Glorified used car salesmen (mostly)
PS There are always exceptions: but they are rare.
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Re: Best Recruitment Agent
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...m/1124414.html
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My favourite piece of revenge on the Recruitment Agencies was when I applied for the job I currently have.
I accidentally applied for the same job through two different agencies.
One agency replied and got me in for an interview and it wasn't until I received a reply from another agency that I realised I had applied for it twice. Anyway, the second agency responded with a "Thanks but no thanks, your skills do not suit this position" type bs response.
When I went for the interview with the company they told me there and then that I was the most experienced and most qualified person to have applied for this job in the 3 months that they had been advertising.
Once I got the job I replied to the recruitment consultant with a very smug email stating that maybe next time he should take more care in reviewing CVs before rejecting people as they had just lost out on a placement! Naturally he replied by stating that the reponse was sent to me by mistake.
TW@T!
I accidentally applied for the same job through two different agencies.
One agency replied and got me in for an interview and it wasn't until I received a reply from another agency that I realised I had applied for it twice. Anyway, the second agency responded with a "Thanks but no thanks, your skills do not suit this position" type bs response.
When I went for the interview with the company they told me there and then that I was the most experienced and most qualified person to have applied for this job in the 3 months that they had been advertising.
Once I got the job I replied to the recruitment consultant with a very smug email stating that maybe next time he should take more care in reviewing CVs before rejecting people as they had just lost out on a placement! Naturally he replied by stating that the reponse was sent to me by mistake.
TW@T!
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Re: Best Recruitment Agent
What a coincidence I have had the same experiences with them
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There is a particular (fairly well known) agency in Leeds that I and other people I know have been to and when we ask about a particular job advertised in the window we have all had the exact same response, "I am so sorry that position has just this minute been filled, so and so has not had the chance to take the sign down" and we go back a few days later and the same jobs is till there.
oh and it is a coincidence that the jobs in the window seem the same "neutral" type jobs that are advertised all the time.
Oh and the never call back but waste our time having us do computer tests, fill out forms have an "interview"..........oh and when they do bother to contact it is for a job that is in no way suitable.............oh and call me a year after I have a job to say I hear you are looking for work............I have more but I won't bore you all
oh and it is a coincidence that the jobs in the window seem the same "neutral" type jobs that are advertised all the time.
Oh and the never call back but waste our time having us do computer tests, fill out forms have an "interview"..........oh and when they do bother to contact it is for a job that is in no way suitable.............oh and call me a year after I have a job to say I hear you are looking for work............I have more but I won't bore you all
My favourite piece of revenge on the Recruitment Agencies was when I applied for the job I currently have.
I accidentally applied for the same job through two different agencies.
One agency replied and got me in for an interview and it wasn't until I received a reply from another agency that I realised I had applied for it twice. Anyway, the second agency responded with a "Thanks but no thanks, your skills do not suit this position" type bs response.
When I went for the interview with the company they told me there and then that I was the most experienced and most qualified person to have applied for this job in the 3 months that they had been advertising.
Once I got the job I replied to the recruitment consultant with a very smug email stating that maybe next time he should take more care in reviewing CVs before rejecting people as they had just lost out on a placement! Naturally he replied by stating that the reponse was sent to me by mistake.
TW@T!
I accidentally applied for the same job through two different agencies.
One agency replied and got me in for an interview and it wasn't until I received a reply from another agency that I realised I had applied for it twice. Anyway, the second agency responded with a "Thanks but no thanks, your skills do not suit this position" type bs response.
When I went for the interview with the company they told me there and then that I was the most experienced and most qualified person to have applied for this job in the 3 months that they had been advertising.
Once I got the job I replied to the recruitment consultant with a very smug email stating that maybe next time he should take more care in reviewing CVs before rejecting people as they had just lost out on a placement! Naturally he replied by stating that the reponse was sent to me by mistake.
TW@T!