Recruiter's using you as hook bait

[Eirikur]

Some do, some don’t.
They will strip out your contact details and add in theirs.
Some save them to a standard format and as a pdf.

Others aren’t particularly smart and if you leave info the the document properties, the client may well have the opportunity to see them

I've seen it many times the other way around agent doesn't want to tell me who end client is but sends me the jobspec, I go into the docs properties and find the author and company name (seems to happen less often now than it did a couple of years ago)

[Whorty]

I've allowed a couple of my trusted agencies to use my profile in the past, anonymous. Twice is resulted in contracts, but not always.

Depends if you're coming to end of contract, how much you yrustvthe agent etc

What you don't want though is them claiming afterwards that they introduced you to that client if it was only a fishing expedition

[Snooky]

he could barely write a line of code.

Typical biased philistine view, blinded by modern fads from seeing the beauty of his philosophical code.

[JohnM]

The thing that annoys me is when they get the youngsters to call you about gigs that obviously do not exist. They ask you to explain what you did at your last role (its on the CV), give them your day rate and them do that for the role before that before asking for references from the last 2 employers so they can get contact details for companies to pitch the agency for any future work they need

It is happening more and more now

[SussexSeagull]

I am not backwards in giving my CV out as it is sort of the purpose of the exercise. However I only really engage with agents if they have a role (or at least claim to) or have one coming up.

Ones that ring for a chat never seem to go anywhere.

[northernladuk]

The thing that annoys me is when they get the youngsters to call you about gigs that obviously do not exist. They ask you to explain what you did at your last role (its on the CV), give them your day rate and them do that for the role before that before asking for references from the last 2 employers so they can get contact details for companies to pitch the agency for any future work they need

It is happening more and more now

I don't want to look like I'm hounding you but again some strange things in this post. Firstly, they don't ask for 2 references from employers. I know what you mean but using the term employer again. You did it in the last post talking about employment market. You clearly don't understand contracting.
What the agent is doing is asking for references from your last CLIENTS so they can just go ring up and offer their agency services to that client.

Also, not really happening more and more now. It's been standard practice for many years. You are right, its frustrating though.
Here is a 125 page thread started in 2008 discussing two references.
https://forums.contractoruk.com/busi...eferences.html

[cojak]

Some do, some don’t.
They will strip out your contact details and add in theirs.
Some save them to a standard format and as a pdf.

Others aren’t particularly smart and if you leave info the the document properties, the client may well have the opportunity to see them

So much better than white text!