Recruitment agencies - Your experience of them

Have you ever worked for a recruitment agency. If so, what has been your experience of them good or bad.
Would you recommend friends to them.

 

Some are good...Reed are total crap...if you can get a job specific agency to tailor to your needs you are fine.i have been using them for 2 years after being made redundant but thankfully full time now

 

I think they are absolutely * pish.

 

I will be 2 years with mine , come November. Complete and utter * ! Despise them. Total joke.
Holiday pay with them is non existent and I'm on minimum wage, even though I shouldn't be. On plus side though, I've had 42.5 hours solid every week.

 

Only 1 has been alright with me and that was Blue Arrow - the first time i worked for them. That's because my missus was my boss :icon_mrgreen: so got lots of work.
After she left i got * all.
None of the other agencies are any good.
I done work for Hays last week and havent been paid this week for that work.
Told them i want the cash in the account today.
If not then i will be reporting them to REC who can shut them down if enough complaints come in.

 

Dont get me started on them mate, there is only one real place of employment where I live, I have been flagged as never being albe to work there again, put me in the same list as ex murders, rapists and theiefs, they asked me what the * did you do ?
I got caught talking and spending too much time with a girl.They burst out laughing in shock

 

And what age was this girl??????

 

Hate them

 

21 At the time, I was 25. Last year

 

2 year rule yea pedo :smiley-laughing002:

 

But she was a wee hottie

 

I always thought it was half your age + 7. In his case 12.5 + 7 = 19.5 so he's grand.

Anywho, I've been with a recruitment agency for 6 months now and they're a shower of shites. However I've got a steady job in an industry that I want to be in so they're a necessary evil I suppose

 

I know a lad who goes to spain, think its legal 13 over there, hes a hun, shock horror

Edit think they have or will change age of consent.

 

Yeah I've had a few bad experiences with recruitment agencies, but there are some good ones with people who really do seem to have your best interests at heart. Just a case of getting lucky really.

 

I only signed up for 1. * terrible. Not 1 phone call.

Global Highland

 

Most of the day to day ones are just leeches making money out of a recession. I hated knowing i was doing the same job and getting less because i used an agency.

If you can get a specialised sector agency you will have more luck and ideally the agency will get a lump payment for your employment as opposed to a % of your salary.

Pagepersonnel avoid them like the plague- they flew me down to london for a regional sales job and never even had the courtesy to arrange feedback/let me know if i got the job. Usually I wouldnt be arsed if i hadnt heard back but the manner it was handled was appalling. Only job ive went for, utterly convinced id nailed it and never even found out why i hadnt.

Whats for you wont go past you and if i had got the job i wouldnt be able to work from home 4 days a week

If you are looking for work PM me i know a couple of decent contacts within agencies that i know will get you the best they can.

 

Just made a complaint to The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) about Hays recruitment.
They have refused to pay me for work i did saying references havent come through.
Told them that what they are doing is illegal and told them about me making complaint.
Want these * to pay.

 

Signed up with a few, had 1 fone call to say they had no work n fuckall else.

Know guys who get a lot of labouring work through them but you could be in Parkheed one day and Paisley the next, * that.

 

There's the first mistake letting them phone you. I was with an agency years ago and phoned them twice a day until they found me something. If you don't pester them you get nothing