Direct or via Agency

[NickNick]

Wouldn't that be nice. Would you give have the money you would have paid for the agents service which you are now not getting when you don't need to. I bloody wouldn't.

I was direct at a previous client and they had a policy in place that all temporary staff doing the same job were paid the same rate. So all PMs were on £x etc. This was irrespective of whether you went thorugh an agency or not. Rates were lower than elsewhere, in fact the lowest I've ever had, but the place was nice enough.

[Wanderer]

Question: without agencies doing the role-hunting activity, how much bench-time would you need to spend on the phones hunting out a role that fits your skill-set and experience? Note, after the calling of warm contacts, the rest is a drudge of cold-calling new people in new companies. (with the social skills and rapport-building abilities expressed on this forum, I suspect this would be an uphill struggle for most here.)

Question for you: If agencies stopping pissing people off by cold calling them and wasting peoples time with fake jobs so they can do their phishing for references, would the contract jobs still exist?

I put it to you that the jobs would still exist, they would still get advertised and the world would be a much happier place without the agencies.