An annoying agency habit

[Stolly]

Phone call out of the blue. Seen my CV on Jobserve, thinks i'm great for the role. Have a good chat, seems like a real opportunity and not some fishing exercise etc etc.

He says again at the end of the convo that i'm great for the role, and he's about to send over the jobspec.

Then...silence.

So obviously a fishing exercise, but other than confirming that i live and answer the telephone he's got no information.

Agencies eh. Bless 'em.

[weemster]

Phone call out of the blue. Seen my CV on Jobserve, thinks i'm great for the role. Have a good chat, seems like a real opportunity and not some fishing exercise etc etc.

He says again at the end of the convo that i'm great for the role, and he's about to send over the jobspec.

Then...silence.

So obviously a fishing exercise, but other than confirming that i live and answer the telephone he's got no information.

Agencies eh. Bless 'em.

and what has the agent got from this ?

[ChimpMaster]

and what has the agent got from this ?

The joy of seeing a contractor crumble once the realisation sets in?

[KevinS]

Phone call out of the blue. Seen my CV on Jobserve, thinks i'm great for the role. Have a good chat, seems like a real opportunity and not some fishing exercise etc etc.

He says again at the end of the convo that i'm great for the role, and he's about to send over the jobspec.

Then...silence.

So obviously a fishing exercise, but other than confirming that i live and answer the telephone he's got no information.

Agencies eh. Bless 'em.

Meh, must be the same plonker that called me last week.. Even gave me the name of clientco.. Sent an updated CV over - silence from him since.. Spoke with a mate today who knows someone at clientco, says bloke at clientco reckons CV did arrive but there is no recruitment going on..

[weemster]

The joy of seeing a contractor crumble once the realisation sets in?

That hatred is deep routed I can tell !

[Stolly]

and what has the agent got from this ?

If he'd phoned up and said "just seen your cv, mind if i put it in our DB for future use ?" it would have the same result in 30 secs, not literally 15 minutes talking about a made up role.

Waste of both our time.

[weemster]

All I can think of is that in these tough times they need to be seen to be
doing things by their management, the self employed agents won't be p1ss1ng about like that.

[RichardCranium]

If he'd phoned up and said "just seen your cv, mind if i put it in our DB for future use ?" it would have the same result in 30 secs, not literally 15 minutes talking about a made up role.

Waste of both our time.

Then again, if he'd NOT phoned up and thought "Hmm, C a recent CV on Jobserve, I think I'll put it on our DB for future use" it would have been down to 15 secs and no cost of a call.

[Stolly]

Then again, if he'd NOT phoned up and thought "Hmm, C a recent CV on Jobserve, I think I'll put it on our DB for future use" it would have been down to 15 secs and no cost of a call.

Yeah but then he wouldn't have verified the contact details, which i can only presume was his objective.

Well, its the only half sensible objective anyway...

[nomadd]

Phone call out of the blue. Seen my CV on Jobserve, thinks i'm great for the role. Have a good chat, seems like a real opportunity and not some fishing exercise etc etc.

He says again at the end of the convo that i'm great for the role, and he's about to send over the jobspec.

Then...silence.

So obviously a fishing exercise, but other than confirming that i live and answer the telephone he's got no information.

Agencies eh. Bless 'em.

It's happened to me about 5 times in the last three months. Mind you, they usually have at least attempted to "fish".

The job specs I haven't seen you wouldn't believe!

Then again, maybe all agencies are sending their emails out via the same broken email server?

Nomadd