Agency Sites are miserable!

[northernladuk]

Anyone else finding the above post a little difficult to believe?

[ruasonid]

Anyone else finding the above post a little difficult to believe?

In my experience (and when I've had Premium trials I've hit the campaign trail) I have next to no responses from direct approaches and messaging on LinkedIn.

I have received direct contact from people trying to sell me something.

[hairymouse]

I'm new to contracting but won my first contract by talking to an agent and reeling off a list of people I know in my industry. He phoned around and in the space of an hour someone offered me a role without interview.

I don't know how easy it will be in future. The agent has been very helpful so far and is full of promise regarding roles beyond my initial 6 month contract.

I've also been actively approaching new companies to offer my services. One company said they were interested in establishing a long term direct relationship.

I guess I'm more in the WTFH camp on this one but if I hadn't uploaded my CV then the agent wouldn't have called me in the first place. Perhaps you get a honeymoon period when your new on the market.

I hope something comes up for you soon hairymouse.

Thanks for that! I'm sure something will come along soon enough. I am keeping busy and it's not a total wasteland. I've actually got a permie interview this afternoon.

Since you are new, I'll mention that giving a recruitment agent the contact details of all the people you know in the industry is likely to result in those people being hammered with sales calls. Glad it worked for you though.

[mb31]

Since you are new, I'll mention that giving a recruitment agent the contact details of all the people you know in the industry is likely to result in those people being hammered with sales calls.

Good point, luckily I don't know that many people and I think he only phoned three out of a list of four. I shall keep my cards close to my chest in future.

How did the permie interview go?

[hairymouse]

Good point, luckily I don't know that many people and I think he only phoned three out of a list of four. I shall keep my cards close to my chest in future.

How did the permie interview go?

Went fine thanks, believe it or not it has to do with applying AI to messages in Swahili. Commute is miserable though.

I guess I should say that I found the job on a slack channel for a specialist industry tool. Approached the client directly, no agencies involved.

[LondonManc]

Most roles seem to get advertised on LinkedIn these days. Message the advertiser on there that you are interested, they'll have a look at your profile and ring you if you look like either a reasonable match or someone with decent (i.e. big) clients on your history that they could match in the future. You may have to overcome a bit of fishing from the agency but that can be fended off easily enough.

[Eirikur]

In my experience (and when I've had Premium trials I've hit the campaign trail) I have next to no responses from direct approaches and messaging on LinkedIn.

I have received direct contact from people trying to sell me something.

Agree mostly. Messaging a recruiter hardly ever works and having a premium account (did the free trials as well) makes no difference what so ever.
To stand out from the 100s of likes from mainly Indians to roles advertised by agents on linkedin, if you really believe you are the best suitable person, you should call them, not like the post, reply to the post or message the recruiter.