What's the deal on this forum about naming recruitment consultants in a very negative context? I dont want to write a whole spiel and then find the sysadmin has pulled off my message.
Anyway, let's call him Nat from No IdeaPP agency. He just called me this morning because I sent him my CV after reading his ad on Jobserve.
He liked my CV, went through the usual 'what was this, what was that' rigmarole on my contract history and then said he'd like to forward my CV to his client and he wants to 'get my references ready'.
It took me 10 minutes of polite cajoling to get to the point where I would give him my references after an interview.
He was then about to hang up when I asked him who the client was. Another 10 minutes later, but he wouldn't have it. He had a non-disclosure agreement with the client and would under no circumstances tell me, so did I wish to continue with this?
So I told him why I was being so cautious, which is in fact true, which is that his colleague, let's call her Belly, had run the same sort of process over me six months previously when I was looking back then. She advertised a contract, got my CV, and foolishly I let her take my first reference. She phoned my referee and tried to flog her services and I never heard any more from her - oh no that's not quite true, I did get to speak to her about 10 days later after hounding her by email and voicemail. Apparently the job had been shelved or something.
So I told this to Nat and he then repeated his whole 'by the book' routine, so I told him to talk to his colleague and get the reference from her, which being a professional she would have recorded, and in the meantime I would think about it.
The politeness had worn off at this point. On the humorous side, I was so wound up I had problems saying the word 'sceptical'. I wish I'd recorded it.
So I bid the great recruitment consultant goodbye, and 2 minutes later the phone rings and it's Belly! She never phoned my referee. Great. At this point all I could do was slam the phone down.
End of story. I am now calming down and can reflect on this. It seems a couple of other agencies this time round also took this position - no naming of client, demand for references before interview - is this generally a trend?
Can I actually lodge a complaint against these people with anyone? Apart from your good selves, of course?
Anyway, let's call him Nat from No IdeaPP agency. He just called me this morning because I sent him my CV after reading his ad on Jobserve.
He liked my CV, went through the usual 'what was this, what was that' rigmarole on my contract history and then said he'd like to forward my CV to his client and he wants to 'get my references ready'.
It took me 10 minutes of polite cajoling to get to the point where I would give him my references after an interview.
He was then about to hang up when I asked him who the client was. Another 10 minutes later, but he wouldn't have it. He had a non-disclosure agreement with the client and would under no circumstances tell me, so did I wish to continue with this?
So I told him why I was being so cautious, which is in fact true, which is that his colleague, let's call her Belly, had run the same sort of process over me six months previously when I was looking back then. She advertised a contract, got my CV, and foolishly I let her take my first reference. She phoned my referee and tried to flog her services and I never heard any more from her - oh no that's not quite true, I did get to speak to her about 10 days later after hounding her by email and voicemail. Apparently the job had been shelved or something.
So I told this to Nat and he then repeated his whole 'by the book' routine, so I told him to talk to his colleague and get the reference from her, which being a professional she would have recorded, and in the meantime I would think about it.
The politeness had worn off at this point. On the humorous side, I was so wound up I had problems saying the word 'sceptical'. I wish I'd recorded it.
So I bid the great recruitment consultant goodbye, and 2 minutes later the phone rings and it's Belly! She never phoned my referee. Great. At this point all I could do was slam the phone down.
End of story. I am now calming down and can reflect on this. It seems a couple of other agencies this time round also took this position - no naming of client, demand for references before interview - is this generally a trend?
Can I actually lodge a complaint against these people with anyone? Apart from your good selves, of course?
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