Apologies if this is a duplicate thread; I did run a search of sorts, honest.
So I've expressed elsewhere a concern about making an agreement with an agency to have them represent me for a gig only to potentially not get it because they actually didn't have any "in" with the client and were merely hoping to spam them to get a foot in the door.
Certainly in the past long before I seriously considered contracting I had someone come to me with a permanent position, agreed to give them my CV, only to have another agency call me about the same job and say they had the exclusive staff sourcing deal with the end company. So I'm obviously hoping to avoid that kind of thing in future.
So, are there any serious (or amusing) methods for identifying a scammer? Right now the only thing I can think is to limit myself to big agencies whose names I recognise or small outfits that operate north of the Border, but I don't know if that's unnecessarily limiting myself.
So I've expressed elsewhere a concern about making an agreement with an agency to have them represent me for a gig only to potentially not get it because they actually didn't have any "in" with the client and were merely hoping to spam them to get a foot in the door.
Certainly in the past long before I seriously considered contracting I had someone come to me with a permanent position, agreed to give them my CV, only to have another agency call me about the same job and say they had the exclusive staff sourcing deal with the end company. So I'm obviously hoping to avoid that kind of thing in future.
So, are there any serious (or amusing) methods for identifying a scammer? Right now the only thing I can think is to limit myself to big agencies whose names I recognise or small outfits that operate north of the Border, but I don't know if that's unnecessarily limiting myself.
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