Originally posted by billybiro
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I don't let my cv go to companies without knowing the bame. I'm not going to divulge the name to someone else to reduce my own chances am I?The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View PostI keep getting calls from OPUS Recruitment, ostensibly for roles to which I'm ideally suited but they never divulge the company name when I ask who the client is. Even though they tell me they are going to submit my CV.
Is there are good reason for withholding the company name if I'm being submitted? I need to know where mt CV is going to avoid duplication.
A certain Freddie Short and his gang down South here. Over several years, I found that they very rarely advertise a contract rate or rate band on their job specifications. I once to went to a F2F interview to a client in London, and it was completely bonkers the way the project manager / recruiter interview me.
So this time around on the bench, I decided to not respond to any ads from this particular agency. I am voting with two feet.Comment
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostThey tend to tell you when it gets that far, maybe sometimes not until they are interested but what's the problem not knowing the client apart from PiP's secario? . Annoying AF and bemusing why it's done like that but why stop them submitting just because you don't know the client in general?
Erm, no thanks dude. Tell me the client and I'll decide if I want to be put forward. He tried for a couple of days to let me send the CV.
My reading of it was he had spotted a role via another agent and wanted to put me CV in front of the client to try and poach the role. I don't for one second believe he actually had a role, and in any case he had absolutely no idea what I do or what such a role is technically (I questioned him) so there is no way a true client would have him search fro decent resources.
I already have something lined up for August so didn't need to play his games.I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter manComment
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