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    Originally posted by Jos View Post
    Anyone used Resource Solutions?

    Finding they run a screening process that takes hours to fill in and asks for everything except for a sample of your DNA.
    Yup a few times.

    They are usually a companies in house recruiter, at least they are for a few IBs I know.
    It's the client that specifies that level of checks.
    The Chunt of Chunts.

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      Originally posted by pauldee View Post
      Umm, I'm no expert at this but doesn't that balance sheet effectively mean they're insolvent?
      Companies often have negative net worth in the first year or so, but that does not mean they are going bust. Balance sheet tests often do not paint a true picture of the state of the business, for instance if the owners have paid themselves high salaries in the first couple of years or have taken on staff without the business making enough money to cover this, they could make a loss. Also the balance sheet is now 15 months out of date. The better test for insolvency is whether the company can pay its debts as they fall due. Even from the balance sheet they appeared to have quite a bit of cash. Would not be massively worried just yet.

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        Originally posted by perplexed
        1 week delay, eh can happen. If it happened regularly...

        Company info for you.

        https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09525179
        Yeah,,, a weeks delay can happen,,, and has happened before but I am definately getting fobbed-off with p***-poor excuses. It smells off. Thanks for the link. I am going to do some more digging, maybe shhould have done more due diligence in the first place!

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          A couple of peers and I have had the following in the recent past:

          Michael Blake Associates (Mike Freeman)

          <removed due to legal threat, investigating now - admin>

          Both were advertising roles which do not exist, only to try to get you to go to their buddies at a CV company to write a 'professional' CV for you as the one provided is never up to scratch.
          Last edited by administrator; 5 December 2018, 14:02. Reason: Legal threat(s)

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            Add Tek Systems to that list.

            Can't communicate with you
            can't communicate with the client
            can't tie them both together
            rediculously long, error prone, inflexible, unlawful due diligence process (no, you can't force a contractor to opt into regulations - thats THEIR choice, no you can't force them to dissolve their limited company because their spouse is a director, etc)
            Unable to follow up on agency references and lie about it
            Cause delays to contract start

            In the end its all about them and their risk - they don't care about yours at all.

            Best to avoid.

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              Originally posted by AussieDigger View Post
              Add Tek Systems to that list.

              Can't communicate with you
              can't communicate with the client
              can't tie them both together
              rediculously long, error prone, inflexible, unlawful due diligence process (no, you can't force a contractor to opt into regulations - thats THEIR choice, no you can't force them to dissolve their limited company because their spouse is a director, etc)
              Unable to follow up on agency references and lie about it
              Cause delays to contract start

              In the end its all about them and their risk - they don't care about yours at all.

              Best to avoid.
              Depends which part of TEK - the ex Aston Carter mob are generally decent.
              The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist

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                Originally posted by AussieDigger View Post
                Add Tek Systems to that list.

                Can't communicate with you
                can't communicate with the client
                can't tie them both together
                rediculously long, error prone, inflexible, unlawful due diligence process (no, you can't force a contractor to opt into regulations - thats THEIR choice, no you can't force them to dissolve their limited company because their spouse is a director, etc)
                Unable to follow up on agency references and lie about it
                Cause delays to contract start

                In the end its all about them and their risk - they don't care about yours at all.

                Best to avoid.

                With Tek Systems it's got to the point that whenever I get a call from them i'm certain it's a waste of time and won't result in an interview.

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                  Originally posted by AussieDigger View Post
                  Add Tek Systems to that list.

                  Can't communicate with you
                  can't communicate with the client
                  can't tie them both together
                  rediculously long, error prone, inflexible, unlawful due diligence process (no, you can't force a contractor to opt into regulations - thats THEIR choice, no you can't force them to dissolve their limited company because their spouse is a director, etc)
                  Unable to follow up on agency references and lie about it
                  Cause delays to contract start

                  In the end its all about them and their risk - they don't care about yours at all.

                  Best to avoid.
                  I'd agree with most of the above. I'm with Tek Systems at the moment. Worst agent I've been with. The gig is good so I've renewed a few times but I'll never go with them again.

                  The compliance stuff is way beyond what is legally required and is a complete pain. (eg "how often do you take dividends?") I turned around the stuff in a day and then waited a week and a half for a contract, by which point I needed to pay extra for a priority review of my contract. Then silence: On the Friday before I was meant to start (on the Monday) the agent was suddenly impossible to get hold of. Turns out the client hadn't got the PO approved. Monday and Tuesday kept chasing the agent before I finally got to start on the Wednesday. To be fair to Tek Systems the client is pretty rubbish too.

                  I started with a 5 month contract, only to find out after two months that the "work order" contract between the agent and the end client was only 2 months. They managed another month contract with the end client but I had all kinds of problems with the PO not being approved etc so I couldn't fill in an online timesheet on the agent's system, so couldn't get paid for several weeks (it was weekly billing). Then the next month long work order was late being set up so I had a contract with the agent but I knew that there was no work order in place between the agent and client by which I'd be paid. And yet I'd be in breach of contract if I left without giving notice. Messy and awkward situation for me and the client. Anyway I walked out without giving notice and started looking for another contract. They suddenly got interested and it all got sorted quickly so I returned but there have been plenty of similar problems.

                  There's been various problems with contract paperwork too. They usually issue a new appendix with revised dates for a renewal but one time changed the 24 page contract and sent it to me on the Thursday so yet again paid extra for a priority review of it.

                  Then the compliance stuff hit again. They wanted to see the certificate of my renewed professional indemnity insurance. I emailed it heard nothing more for a couple of weeks, then a different person asked for it, then nothing for a couple of months then another person asked for it etc. I think I sent it 5 or 6 times before they finally recieved it or stopped loosing it.

                  Like I say the gig is good for various reasons plus Tek Systems have improved a bit over time so I'm still here, just.

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                    Originally posted by AussieDigger View Post
                    Add Tek Systems to that list.

                    Can't communicate with you
                    can't communicate with the client
                    can't tie them both together
                    rediculously long, error prone, inflexible, unlawful due diligence process (no, you can't force a contractor to opt into regulations - thats THEIR choice, no you can't force them to dissolve their limited company because their spouse is a director, etc)
                    Unable to follow up on agency references and lie about it
                    Cause delays to contract start

                    In the end its all about them and their risk - they don't care about yours at all.

                    Best to avoid.
                    Are they Indians? The ones that we barely understand what they are talking about.

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                      Originally posted by AussieDigger View Post
                      Add Tek Systems to that list.

                      Can't communicate with you
                      can't communicate with the client
                      can't tie them both together
                      rediculously long, error prone, inflexible, unlawful due diligence process (no, you can't force a contractor to opt into regulations - thats THEIR choice, no you can't force them to dissolve their limited company because their spouse is a director, etc)
                      Unable to follow up on agency references and lie about it
                      Cause delays to contract start

                      In the end its all about them and their risk - they don't care about yours at all.

                      Best to avoid.
                      Have you had a bad experience of them or something ?
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