I got a call from a guy at Monarch IT with a potential contract in Birmingham for an investment bank.
My first thoughts were...an investment bank in Birmingham??
Anyway I played along with it and told him i'm interested.
When I emailed him to tell me who the client was, he said he could not tell me at this stage but he was happy to submit my CV to the client?......do you not have a right to know who your CV goes to??
Anyway he then emails me back and says that the client is interested but he needs references from my previous workplace. His exact words were "I have a service level agreement with the client to reference check candidates along with their applications."...........He Still Cannot disclose who the client is!!
What do you think, Is he bulltulipting me? Is he just after some names he can contact in my previous workplace to secure some contracts? Does this role actually exist?
What client would trust an agency to do reference checks?? If I was the end client I would want to do the reference checks myself.
I tend to lose my temper with guys like this. Only problem is that if I do that, I reckon they wont put me forward for a role when it does materialise.
This isn't the first agency I've seen that is insisting on reference checks.Is this becoming normal practice? or is the market so tulip that they're getting desperate?
My first thoughts were...an investment bank in Birmingham??
Anyway I played along with it and told him i'm interested.
When I emailed him to tell me who the client was, he said he could not tell me at this stage but he was happy to submit my CV to the client?......do you not have a right to know who your CV goes to??
Anyway he then emails me back and says that the client is interested but he needs references from my previous workplace. His exact words were "I have a service level agreement with the client to reference check candidates along with their applications."...........He Still Cannot disclose who the client is!!
What do you think, Is he bulltulipting me? Is he just after some names he can contact in my previous workplace to secure some contracts? Does this role actually exist?
What client would trust an agency to do reference checks?? If I was the end client I would want to do the reference checks myself.
I tend to lose my temper with guys like this. Only problem is that if I do that, I reckon they wont put me forward for a role when it does materialise.
This isn't the first agency I've seen that is insisting on reference checks.Is this becoming normal practice? or is the market so tulip that they're getting desperate?
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