Can I go directly with client missing out agency

[DodgyAgent]

if agents saw this as anything other than a numbers game they wouldn't be pimping these people - who don't belong on the market, whatever rate is being offered or asked for - in the first place. and seeing some agents' pitiful efforts to try and help candidates cheat on pre-interview screening tests and embellish their resumes puts paid to any idea that agents have their clients' best interests at heart - not that it really needed saying anyway.

If agents didnt work like this then people like you would be permanent fixtures at the dole queues.

[lambrini_socialist]

If agents didnt work like this then people like you would be permanent fixtures at the dole queues.

i doubt that very much. utterly fatuous.

[thunderlizard]

"As a staffing consultancy it is our responsibility to obain best value for money for the client. By informing them that you are willing to undergo a rate decrease to get into the company we are basically admitting that we do not do our job properly"

What is that supposed to mean?

It means "they'll know we've been overcharging". Occasionally truth threatens to shine upon an agent like a ray of sunshine on Dracula.

[sumez]

Had the agency call me up saying that the client will only take me on in a perm role.
Agent kept saying I will get career progression and training and blah blah blah.
To be honest I'm not interested and told him to go back to the client and ask for a contract. Lets see what happens.
The package was about 55 to 60k plus 5-7k allowance for car plus the usual benefits such as health insurance.

[brianbetter]

Agencies and CVs

We are not allowed to change the actual words within a CV. We can clean up the formatting but we cannot change what has been put there by the contractor. If our clients are too lazy or disorganised to find a technically competent person to review CVs and interview then that is there own stupid fault.

[lambrini_socialist]

We are not allowed to change the actual words within a CV. We can clean up the formatting but we cannot change what has been put there by the contractor. If our clients are too lazy or disorganised to find a technically competent person to review CVs and interview then that is there own stupid fault.

i once arrived at an interview to find that my CV had been edited to remove certain skills that the client didn't "like". no big deal, i mean the agent was only using his experience to help get me the gig, but it came as a surprise and i told the client what was missing (i still got the contract).

[LazyFan]

You are lucky I went for an interview at UBS.
All was going really well, until he said, "I see on your CV you are an expert at UML?"

Well I have dabbled but I am no guru. I am not a blagger so, I told the client the truth and he showed me the CV he had been provided. It had been blatantly added at the bottom.

I never got the gig as of course I looked bad in the interview for not knowing something that the client was expecting me to know. The client felt deceived, even if it had been by the agency and not myself.

I am considering going PDF in future to make it harder for these rec cons to tamper with it.