1) A 'lady' phoned me at work (large corporation) via an external phone when I was permie, she claimed that she was from internal accounts and that this year "I was going to get a big, big bonus" (her exact words). Immediately I smelt a rat ! I was just an IT bod there are no such thing as big bonuses for us (not even in the City). Her next words were "Have you got any colleagues in your team that you would recommend for bonuses !". It was a desperate, fraudulant phone call during the last economic downturn. That's the depths some would sink to during those bad times.
2) Agent called me up for a test for an investment bank, I had to go and sit it at their offices. I turned up .. it was a mixture of business and technical 1.5 hours long (it was tough but doable). He then told me that he would send the test to the bank.
Weeks passed and I heard nothing, a different agency called me with the same role but told them that I would not go for it as my CV and test had already been submitted; they got back to me claiming that the bank had never heard of me and asked me to resit the test on the banks request (another 1.5 hours).
Basically I think that the original agency had already submitted their quota of CVs to the bank and were just 'blocking my application' in order to eliminate the competition, the original slimey agent who blocked me even had the audacity to call me up asking me 'where I was ?' on the day I actually secured the role.
3) Bimbo lady agent asked me via e-mail to answer some detailed descriptions of how to price certain financial instruments back in the day when there was little info available via internet or books (all for a job application). She claimed that she had sent my CV down but I heard no reply for weeks.
Then a different agent got me to apply for the same role (the original agent hadn't sent my CV - no suprise there), but what I later found out is that she had given my original answers to another candidate for applying for the same role; the employer alerted me to this. (she got stung for it).
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Given those 3 examples do you think that I've got away with it lightly or that I've had a rough time with agents ??
2) Agent called me up for a test for an investment bank, I had to go and sit it at their offices. I turned up .. it was a mixture of business and technical 1.5 hours long (it was tough but doable). He then told me that he would send the test to the bank.
Weeks passed and I heard nothing, a different agency called me with the same role but told them that I would not go for it as my CV and test had already been submitted; they got back to me claiming that the bank had never heard of me and asked me to resit the test on the banks request (another 1.5 hours).
Basically I think that the original agency had already submitted their quota of CVs to the bank and were just 'blocking my application' in order to eliminate the competition, the original slimey agent who blocked me even had the audacity to call me up asking me 'where I was ?' on the day I actually secured the role.
3) Bimbo lady agent asked me via e-mail to answer some detailed descriptions of how to price certain financial instruments back in the day when there was little info available via internet or books (all for a job application). She claimed that she had sent my CV down but I heard no reply for weeks.
Then a different agent got me to apply for the same role (the original agent hadn't sent my CV - no suprise there), but what I later found out is that she had given my original answers to another candidate for applying for the same role; the employer alerted me to this. (she got stung for it).
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Given those 3 examples do you think that I've got away with it lightly or that I've had a rough time with agents ??
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