Huxley admission

[BobTheCrate]

Received a contract e-mail description the other day from this outfit.

In with the job description as bold as brass,
"Please note that all applicants will be reference-checked prior to CV-submission."

This actually is quite useful. 'Cos now they're advertising the fact they're just trawling for contact names and that the contract is bogus.

[Central-Scrutiniser]

Passage Proverbs 3:28:

28 Do not say to your neighbor,
"Come back later; I'll give it tomorrow"—
when you now have it with you.

[Epiphone]

Been seeing similar on Jobserve. Right there in the ad "you must supply two references with your application". Makes it easier to ignore I guess.

[Mailman]

The answer is quite simple, dont use them. Eventually...if enough people DONT use their services they might start to ask questions why.

Mailman

[threaded]

No, they'll go whining to the government that there is a "skills shortage".

The skill being cluelessness...

HTH

[Mailman]

Nah.

They're too dumb for that...

Contractors or agents?

Mailman

[Dundeegeorge]

Well how dull

I was hoping for an expose of Huxley, Cuddles and Horace rampant 3-in-a-bed cocaine-fuelled filth. Instead it's some vermin from an agency telling the truth for once.

[ASB]

This actually is quite useful. 'Cos now they're advertising the fact they're just trawling for contact names and that the contract is bogus.

You could be right. But it is not unknown for companies to insist on reference checking before they will look at anybody. Both permanent and contract. The rationale is to prevent them withdrawing an offer when the references don't stack up.

[BobTheCrate]

But it is not unknown for companies to insist on reference checking before they will look at anybody

Would these be the same companies I wonder who get so fed up spending all day on the phone with agents giving references for past employees/contractors and completing e-mail reference requests for same ?

Why get fed up with something they 'supposedly' feed ?

[threaded]

Hmm, an attempted application of logic to the client-agent-contractor relationship.

How quaint.