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!
Know what you mean. I've been out of uni 2years now, gotta BSc at 2:1, and a MSc. Amount of recruitment type companies that contact me is untrue, and they either waste your time by trying to convince you to do a job that's not what you're skilled for........ OR try and convince you to leave where you are now on say £20k a year and commute 100miles a day for £13k a year.
I've given up on the recruitment companies, and now being specific and targetting heavy industry (what I've worked within) and jobs I actually want
I've given up on the recruitment companies, and now being specific and targetting heavy industry (what I've worked within) and jobs I actually want
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.
Pareto Law.......... Anyone had good experience of them?
two bouts of personal experience. Both times, hated them/their ways/their mantra.
4friends been through them, 1 loved them (he is billy bulls
tter with a degree basically, born for telesales and buzzwords.) 2hated them. 1tolerated and gained a job via them, she quit after 12weeks as it was a pisstake
two bouts of personal experience. Both times, hated them/their ways/their mantra.
4friends been through them, 1 loved them (he is billy bulls
tter with a degree basically, born for telesales and buzzwords.) 2hated them. 1tolerated and gained a job via them, she quit after 12weeks as it was a pisstake
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