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    Nice try!

    Got this email today.....


    Dear Candidate,

    Thank you for your application for Business Objects Developer Consultancy positions through Computer People,

    Due to the recurring instance of rogue recruitment agencies posing as candidates in order to obtain job information,
    To ensure genuine candidate status verification, we now give preference to candidates able provide us with the line manager referee details of your last four assignments,

    This can be done in the form of an email, stating:- Name/Position/Company/Contact Number


    I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this

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    #2
    Whats is 'genuine candidate status verification' exactly?!?!?!
    I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.

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      #3
      That old chestnut. Munchers, the lot of them.
      "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


      Thomas Jefferson

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        #4
        Oh dear.

        Ready made reply;

        Due to the recurring instance of rogue recruitment agencies pretending to offer contracts in order to obtain Client information,
        To ensure genuine contract status verification, we now give preference to agencies able to provide us with the line manager referee details of the contract being offered,

        This can be done in the form of an email, stating:- Name/Position/Company/Contact Number/bank account number/ PIN code
        And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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          #5
          Why don't they just ask for any leads? Would save embarressment all round?
          I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Rookie View Post
            Why don't they just ask for any leads? Would save embarressment all round?
            You might ask them for a margin if they do that.
            And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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              #7
              Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
              Oh dear.

              Ready made reply;

              Due to the recurring instance of rogue recruitment agencies pretending to offer contracts in order to obtain Client information,
              To ensure genuine contract status verification, we now give preference to agencies able to provide us with the line manager referee details of the contract being offered,

              This can be done in the form of an email, stating:- Name/Position/Company/Contact Number/bank account number/ PIN code
              "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

              Norrahe's blog

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                #8
                Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
                Oh dear.

                Ready made reply;

                Due to the recurring instance of rogue recruitment agencies pretending to offer contracts in order to obtain Client information,
                To ensure genuine contract status verification, we now give preference to agencies able to provide us with the line manager referee details of the contract being offered,

                This can be done in the form of an email, stating:- Name/Position/Company/Contact Number/bank account number/ PIN code

                Very good - might use that!
                "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


                Thomas Jefferson

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
                  Very good - might use that!
                  I just have, quite an inspired template.

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                    #10
                    Even cockroaches have to eat. Same goes for agents, just they are lower in the food chain.

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