The non-existent agency or job
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How many times have you seen a job and thought right I am going to apply for that only to hear zippo and unable to find anything online about the agency?
another van driving job came up in the Black Country at £9.50 an hour mon to fri 6am till finish so fine with that.....i got this off the indeed website but tried to find the agency on google - nothing came up no website no nothing.
Got me a bit para again - is it some shady outfit just data gathering? I put my number on the covering email with CV asking them to ring me - nothing. silence.
would you apply for jobs willy nilly where like the example above there is no trace or only on those where you have some kind of trail? thing is that agency now has my email address mobile number and other info (thankfully no NI number or DOB etc)
another van driving job came up in the Black Country at £9.50 an hour mon to fri 6am till finish so fine with that.....i got this off the indeed website but tried to find the agency on google - nothing came up no website no nothing.
Got me a bit para again - is it some shady outfit just data gathering? I put my number on the covering email with CV asking them to ring me - nothing. silence.
would you apply for jobs willy nilly where like the example above there is no trace or only on those where you have some kind of trail? thing is that agency now has my email address mobile number and other info (thankfully no NI number or DOB etc)
In relation to non-existent jobs it used to be the case that Finance agencies would advertise mythical jobs just to harvest CVs. Nowadays it's fairly common for Finance agencies to advertise jobs that they haven't been asked to recruit for, as well as advertising jobs that have long since been filled.
It's a sleazy industry.
It's a sleazy industry.
fed up of getting out of the blue calls from folk either at agencies or employers that are miles away.
I swear they are simply gathering data.......
had a call from a place this morning that have an office 8 miles from my home but the job the guy was on about was at their Nottingham office requiring a commute of over 40 miles or about 90-120 mins at rush hour. each way.
I couldnt take it seriously when they must have applicants that live within 20 mins of that office.........I emailed the guy back to say thanks but no thanks as he was waiting for my CV but there was little point and he had revealed the salary too which was on the low side even at the upper end of the range on offer.
I swear they are simply gathering data.......
had a call from a place this morning that have an office 8 miles from my home but the job the guy was on about was at their Nottingham office requiring a commute of over 40 miles or about 90-120 mins at rush hour. each way.
I couldnt take it seriously when they must have applicants that live within 20 mins of that office.........I emailed the guy back to say thanks but no thanks as he was waiting for my CV but there was little point and he had revealed the salary too which was on the low side even at the upper end of the range on offer.
Imho ring them first, that way you avoid wasting time and energy replying to non-existent jobs. I was looking for something a few years back and 99% of the agencies didn't even reply back and when I had the cheek to call them they got all uppity that I was "hassling" them. Tbf put me right off agencies so much so that I wouldn't bother with them again, total 
s imho.
TX.
s imho.TX.
thats the rub. on the last one it did actually say "please ring the number above" but the only problem was........there was no number above - idiots.
signed on today and it was with a new "customer advisor" a bolshy cocksure guy ( I wont mention his ethnicity) but he was full of himself.....asked me the usual questions and had I applied to XYZ company near the local town centre to which I replied yep and 123 and ABC and BDU and TYX as they are all that same business district.........his response was "so youve applied, got any feedback yet?". I told him no. he asked for my job search which I handed over and its been the same as for the last 7 months, hand written notes on a pad. but this guy pulled a face and said dont you record this properly on your email.
I dont even understand what he was babbling on about and could see here we had your grade A bum hole of an advisor who was just looking to press my buttons.........I said are we done then after signing and he said your next appointment is at xx.xx am in 2 weeks time - he wouldnt even write it on my card.
little does he know he will be in my position when they eventually close all the local job centres.........hope I dont see this guy next time.
guys like this just make you feel like you arent trying hard enough to find a job and they have a knack of doing it rather effortlessly too, like proper cocky so and so's sat behind their big desks ........when youre contending with 200, maybe even 300 people per vacancy......probably a degree of firms who dont want you because I am late 40s.......some companies say the commute is too far (yet the jobcentre say you must look for work up to 90 mins travel time)........jobs that dont exist or never have existed...........jobs that were filled months ago............agencies that dont return your calls...............agencies that feed you jobs miles away or in skills you dont have but that they should know you dont have if only they would read your CV...........JC+ think there is some magic tree full of jobs out there and if you cant get one then why cant you get one, are you an idiot, are you really a scrounger?
Man, I want out of this job hunting its doing my nut in...........seriously.
signed on today and it was with a new "customer advisor" a bolshy cocksure guy ( I wont mention his ethnicity) but he was full of himself.....asked me the usual questions and had I applied to XYZ company near the local town centre to which I replied yep and 123 and ABC and BDU and TYX as they are all that same business district.........his response was "so youve applied, got any feedback yet?". I told him no. he asked for my job search which I handed over and its been the same as for the last 7 months, hand written notes on a pad. but this guy pulled a face and said dont you record this properly on your email.
I dont even understand what he was babbling on about and could see here we had your grade A bum hole of an advisor who was just looking to press my buttons.........I said are we done then after signing and he said your next appointment is at xx.xx am in 2 weeks time - he wouldnt even write it on my card.
little does he know he will be in my position when they eventually close all the local job centres.........hope I dont see this guy next time.
guys like this just make you feel like you arent trying hard enough to find a job and they have a knack of doing it rather effortlessly too, like proper cocky so and so's sat behind their big desks ........when youre contending with 200, maybe even 300 people per vacancy......probably a degree of firms who dont want you because I am late 40s.......some companies say the commute is too far (yet the jobcentre say you must look for work up to 90 mins travel time)........jobs that dont exist or never have existed...........jobs that were filled months ago............agencies that dont return your calls...............agencies that feed you jobs miles away or in skills you dont have but that they should know you dont have if only they would read your CV...........JC+ think there is some magic tree full of jobs out there and if you cant get one then why cant you get one, are you an idiot, are you really a scrounger?
Man, I want out of this job hunting its doing my nut in...........seriously.
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