Recruitment agencies, do they actually read a CV!!
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Been dealing with a few recruitment places recently (thinking about changing employers) and have had a few tendrils from them, got 2 interviews in the last 2 months, but came to nothing, as the employer wanted a more quality based sklilset, where my most recent skills have been HSE but i was a quality person in the job before.
However i have been getting called by them saying a job has come up i would be 'perfect' for, but i said no, as i felt i was having to take random half days etc and it was looking suspicious, and if i keep going for interviews for roles that in the end want a technically proficient person on specific equipment, then i wont get the job etc.
The agencies give the impression that a company has seen my CV and wants to at least interview me, but you then hear nothing for 2 weeks, get the usual excuses (the HR person was off ill etc) then another week passes and i get a standard e-mail from the previously very chatty recruiter, stating i was unsucessfull for interview.
I wouldn't mind but it gets you down a bit and you start to be paranoid your work will kow you are looking for other employment, though the other worry is if i did get a job offer, i have never handed in a resignation\notice letter to a real job before (i did it a pizza hit when at uni but that wasn't the same thing).
Bit worried if i have to work a months notice (though i dont know if i would as i have no contract of employment!)and it would just be a nightmare of being hated by my boss and others, i.e. no one would take me on for 4 weeks.
Away to see recruitment places properly, instead of the one that has me on file and sends random jobs, i am properly putting myself about now, but its a nightmare doing this while still employed!
However i have been getting called by them saying a job has come up i would be 'perfect' for, but i said no, as i felt i was having to take random half days etc and it was looking suspicious, and if i keep going for interviews for roles that in the end want a technically proficient person on specific equipment, then i wont get the job etc.
The agencies give the impression that a company has seen my CV and wants to at least interview me, but you then hear nothing for 2 weeks, get the usual excuses (the HR person was off ill etc) then another week passes and i get a standard e-mail from the previously very chatty recruiter, stating i was unsucessfull for interview.
I wouldn't mind but it gets you down a bit and you start to be paranoid your work will kow you are looking for other employment, though the other worry is if i did get a job offer, i have never handed in a resignation\notice letter to a real job before (i did it a pizza hit when at uni but that wasn't the same thing).
Bit worried if i have to work a months notice (though i dont know if i would as i have no contract of employment!)and it would just be a nightmare of being hated by my boss and others, i.e. no one would take me on for 4 weeks.
Away to see recruitment places properly, instead of the one that has me on file and sends random jobs, i am properly putting myself about now, but its a nightmare doing this while still employed!
TBF, Hays got me both my last jobs, and they are not too bad, though i had to give them the hurry up on a couple of jobs i saw online that they didn't tell me about lol.
But i dont like when they phone up and basically say this company would suit you, they are looking for someone with exactly your skills blah blah, then a week later you get told they just sent your CV in, so basically the employer has no idea about me at all, and i do not have a specific skill they need etc, such as a specific tool proficiency. that boils my piss as you get excited to be maybe desirable for a company but then find out its all for nought.
The worst of it though is job descriptions for say a HSE advisor, which then asks for the candidate to have a mechanical engineering degree etc, i know a fair few HSE people, and none of them would expect to need a specialist degre in such a role, its bloody annoying when companies are trying to get HSE people with high end degrees for about £30k a year, folk in HSE roles with specific degrees are usually asking about £50k, and its creating a situations where people are getting recruited and having to basically learn how to be a mechanical\process engineer, when all they are trained for is HSE.
Its madness, but its the way its going.
But i dont like when they phone up and basically say this company would suit you, they are looking for someone with exactly your skills blah blah, then a week later you get told they just sent your CV in, so basically the employer has no idea about me at all, and i do not have a specific skill they need etc, such as a specific tool proficiency. that boils my piss as you get excited to be maybe desirable for a company but then find out its all for nought.
The worst of it though is job descriptions for say a HSE advisor, which then asks for the candidate to have a mechanical engineering degree etc, i know a fair few HSE people, and none of them would expect to need a specialist degre in such a role, its bloody annoying when companies are trying to get HSE people with high end degrees for about £30k a year, folk in HSE roles with specific degrees are usually asking about £50k, and its creating a situations where people are getting recruited and having to basically learn how to be a mechanical\process engineer, when all they are trained for is HSE.
Its madness, but its the way its going.
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