Best and Worst Recruitment Agencies

porkpie · Joined: 03 Jun 2009 Posts: 1

I am working for an agency in the public sector and have been treated like crap so many times its a joke, not just by this one but many others.
Why is it so hard to get a permanent job? Everywhere you go its just agency work. If you are not overly qualified its impossible.

Even when you do apply for permanent vacancies it takes the employer like two months just to get back to you. The application process is a joke, they almost want blood from you. Then you have to have at least two interviews. I mean, cant they just look at your cv, have one interview and then its done.

The employment laws in England are shameful

castlelgr · Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 60182 Location: southampton

michaelwinner · Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 113

Check out this female Recruitment Professional after a night on the town. She had been promoted to 'Team Manager' of an Engineering Division in a Recruitment Agency that afternoon and had obviously gotten over-excited about it all.......

Here's the link to the video! Make sure you watch it with the sound volume on!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf4JAegtekI

Lupy · Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 67

What a complete pile of rubbish!

Anyone can find some drunk person asleep and add a few weird noises to it. I feel like I have just wasted 2 minutes of my precious time watching it!

Thanks Michael

montyzuma · Community Moderator Joined: 25 Jul 2007 Posts: 7532

Anyone know some suitable agencies for oil jobs in the UK?

loads in aberdeen

castlelgr · Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 60182 Location: southampton

Aberdeen is the place to be for oil jobs, trying to help a diving engineer friend of mine and looks like Aberdeen is where he needs to go

michaelwinner · Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 113

Lupy · Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 67

I'm not going to waste my time responding to you Michael, you obviously have about at much maturity as a 10 year old!

Oh, and please do not use the word retarded, it is politically incorrect and offensive.

michaelwinner · Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 113

mikejdavis · Joined: 22 Apr 2009 Posts: 33

Candidate perspective

Black Swan of Recruitment (The Recession)

1. The event is a surprise.

2. The event has a major impact.

3. After the fact, the event is rationalized by hindsight, as if it had been expected.

Conclusion

Recruitment Agents conclude this was about lack of vacancies and candidate rejection after taking the above points into consideration.

Candidates widely disagree and confirm this was about sales agency transparency, systems, confidence, professionalism, chaotic mis-management, and the type of individual who becomes a recruitment consultant in this demeaning candidate exploitive industry.

mikejdavis · Joined: 22 Apr 2009 Posts: 33

If Calsberg did Recruitment Consultants they do the best Sales Agents in the world!!

http://www.pentaconsulting.com/content_static/OurNews.asp?session_id={04B67A25-10F3-4397-B0A0-C1F901C25598}

Would you trust these people? another delusional award !.

michaelwinner · Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 113

recruitment sucks · Joined: 17 Jun 2009 Posts: 1

RECRUITERS ARE AS LOWLIFE AS TICKET INSPECTORS and BIG BROTHER ex contestants/wannabes
I'd rather give money to a street dweller than a recruitment agency, at least tramps are authentic.

In the last year looking for a job has been the single most demoralizing experience I have ever had. I am not alone.

It makes me wonder how these so called 'recuiting' people get employed themselves. Most can't spell, have no manners, and no morals.

CV UK - Thanks for sending me one of your registrants CV and job application- including her personal details and job salary (good job my line isn't identity theft). I think you meant to send it to your ignorant teenage colleague. And no thanks for your crap service all round. I imagine you were filing your nails, picking your nose or eating a big sloppy mac and fries whilst you listened to me reply to your turgid questions. 0/10

NET-A-PORTER - for such a high calibre profile, your recuitment team are rude, ignorant, and lazy. they promise to reveal the outcome of your interview, and GUESS WHAT they NEVER DO. 0/10

SEVEN recruitment - lazy and stupid 0/10

ELITE ASSOCIATES - consummate UNPROFESSIONALS

SPACE -NK
HABITAT
ZARA
HENNES
HOUSE OF FRASER
ESTEE LAUDER
ELEMIS knock knock ANYBODY THERE AT YOUR RECRUITMENT??
I mean why bother with requesting a speculative email if you NEVER NEVER NEVER reply to them?

HARRODS - great if you enjoy being tortured and scrutinized by morons (they call that an interview)

RECRUITMENT PER SE:
1. keen keen headlines: "apply apply apply"
2. =ignore ignore ignore
3. occasional replies from some teenager who mis-spells your name, tells you a huge big fat lie - "sorry I didnt reply to your earlier email I was having a crisis urm like should I have big mac and fries or um big mac and fries"
4. sorry there's just nothing in your line at the moment (except the fifteen jobs advertised)

Then there are the timewasters who recruit independently.
1. create a job spec which is impossible to fulfill
2. waste everyones time with pseudo interviews when really...
3. you've really got all your friends from your old job waiting to take the positions you just can't fill externally (b'cus no-one can fill the impossible spec you made up purely to cover your ass as by law you have to interview externally)

In short - the whole UK recruitment process is a farce.
Unfortunately during a time when candidates should have back-up and support they get a big fat zero and not even a formal rejection as form of closure. PEOPLE NEED FEEDBACK, don't be shy, its not your boyfriend you're dumping. Just say "No you didnt get the job". or "thanks for your application". There, that's not too hard is it. You could even send a generic email if it pains you to write it. Anything is better than being ignored by a robot IMHO and left to wonder forever more how you did.

There's nothing worse than being made redundant then having to pick up the pieces, and look for a new job with all these air heads at the helm. Caption reads: send your hopes and CV into the sea of nothingness: EXPECT 0/ZERO there's no life out there. Its not personal no, but its shish. I did get a job. BUT NOT THROUGH RECRUITMENT AGENTS - no surprise and no kerrching for you ha..bitter? hell yes, wouldn't you be having being treated like dog poo for no good reason.

It calls for a campaign to enforce proper conduct and government regulations within job recruitment.

michaelwinner · Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 113

I've had a private message from somebody to say that they actually saw this Recruitment Professional out with Lupy the night she slept roadside.

After she had got herself into such a drunken stuper caused by excitement of promotion to "Engineering Division Team Leader", she demolished a mixed kebab then filled her big trunks, before pitching down for an early night.

Just for the record, it's this Specialist....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf4JAegtekI&feature=channel_page

All a result of a byzantine recruitment system...

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mikejdavis · Joined: 22 Apr 2009 Posts: 33

Sales agents are born out of the age on non-entity employment. We produce hardly anything meaningful as a country and what's left is often outsourced. Non-entity jobs such as the recruitment consultant is the net result in this telesales industry

Just fabricate your c.v like the majority to pass their unique check box pre screening interview process and least then you can be reasonably confident of a possible interview because you can bet those sales specialists don't know anything about the industry they are recruiting in.

Think of the waste and drain on NHS resources where agency staff are used.

pathetic - avoid sales agents if possible.

michaelwinner · Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 113

castlelgr · Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 60182 Location: southampton

Are all three of your logins going to talk to each other all the time?

michaelwinner · Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 113

mikejdavis · Joined: 22 Apr 2009 Posts: 33

Agency tricks

When agencies post vacancies on job-boards they will pay a set fee for the advertised duration. It is often the case that vacancy is filled but the advertisement is still live. Why? to maximise advertising expenditure and continue to gather c.v's for their washing machine of a database. You may well be contacted at a later date when job matched for a totally in-appropriate role.

They recruit only from their internal database only known in I.T circles as the (Washing machine cycle) The agency is based in Manchester but the vacancy is in London so you maybe local to this vacancy but totally oblivious to this local opportunity.

There are discussions regarding the legality of holding CV's on internal databases where the vacancy is never going live!

Avoid Sales agencies they are all complicit in poor practices these people end up in recruitment for obvious reasons and simply cannot cope due to the number of CV's being submitted and blame the recession and not there poor working practices.

Avoid totally pathetic

duncanfreer1 · Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 2

Hi Guy20

i have used http://www.oilandgasjobsearch.co.uk who have a large global database of jobs for the oil industry

Regards

Duncan

lanne · Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 8

I have found the best way to find a job is to contact the companies you are interested in directly and ask them about their jobs/ fill out an online application form on their website because many companies don't advertise their jobs and don't want to pay recruitment agencies to find staff for them and it also means there might be less competition if they are not advertising much. Recruitment agencies try to fill all of the criteria that the employer asks for so often you have less chance for an interview but if you contact the company directly they can give you an interview if you don't fit all their criteria but come close (which has been the case with me).

michaelwinner · Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 113

I've cut and pasted this from a live job advert on Total Jobs by a pathetic recruitment agency. If you're interested ring Tracey. This is it -

We offer a fantastic basic salary of between 14,000 and 17,000, dependant on experience and skill levels.

Hours of work – these shifts are required and we work

EarlyLate

Monday 9 – 1710.30 – 8.30

Tuesdays9 – 6111.30 – 8.30

Wednesday9 – 611.30 – 8.30

Thursday9 – 6111 - 8

Fridays9 – 59 - 55

Weekends 4 in 3 Saturdays 9 - 1

Pathetic is in the only word

mikejdavis · Joined: 22 Apr 2009 Posts: 33

The above advertisement could be for a trainee recruitment consultant although these telesales specialists are now working from home on a regular basis offering their unique expertise.

They additionally top up their salaries by utilising the following finance streams.

1. Spread betting.
2. EBay.
3. Self employed gardener.

Online Application Overview

Totaljobs.com
Only if you’re desperate \ Roles often expired but still advertised.

Jobserve.com
Common for non-existent job advertisements be careful.

Planetrecruit.com
Chav agencies normally recruit from this site.

Monster.co.uk
2 cyber attacks on confidential candidate data in 18months not to be trusted.

Reed.co.uk
Show’s you how many applicants have applied for the advertised role already. This will either put you off or encourage you depending on your persona.

Summary
Job websites are known for duplicating roles you may have applied twice for the same role which incidentally happens to be a non existent advertised by the same agency in slightly different format on multiple on-line job-boards.

Personally i feel sorry for Graduates with non-specific degrees i.e. they leave university with -20k debts and often end up temping and suffering the fools in the telesales industry of recruitment often called Tracey or Sharon with their degrees in History or business management.

The whole process is absolutely pathetic - AVOID ALL SALES SPECIALISTS IF POSSIBLE.

pestal · Joined: 24 Jun 2009 Posts: 11

pestal · Joined: 24 Jun 2009 Posts: 11