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Agreed. Remember many giving advice on this thread are apologists for recruitment agents, seeking to muddy the waters on their real tactics, which they don't want us to know of. -
Maybe the stingy clients should just be upfront and tell the truth, which is that the agency managed to push the most desperate applicant down to a price so cheap they couldn't refuse.Originally posted by Wanderer View PostAnd that, dear readers, is why client's don't give feedback after failed interviews.Comment
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Damn, rumbled.
We'd have got away with it if it wasn't for you pesky CUK kids.Comment
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And still you fail to recognize the irony in the replies you receive, can you really not see that people have come to their conclusions about you and are now just humouring you?Originally posted by masonryan View PostAgreed. Remember many giving advice on this thread are apologists for recruitment agents, seeking to muddy the waters on their real tactics, which they don't want us to know of.
You really do have a simpletons view on how the world works for contractors in the UK right now, agents are a necessary evil, work with them, find the ones that add value and work with them, life really is too short...Comment
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Life too short say the people who don't want their unethical, parasitic practices exposed and put under the microscope for all to examine. Why? Because ultimately they will find their dodgy 'profession' regulated more and clientco returning to in-house recruitment practices.Originally posted by kal View PostYou really do have a simpletons view on how the world works for contractors in the UK right now, agents are a necessary evil, work with them, find the ones that add value and work with them, life really is too short...Comment
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Exactly. I happen to know that a couple of posters are in fact agents masquerading as contractors.Originally posted by masonryan View PostAgreed. Remember many giving advice on this thread are apologists for recruitment agents, seeking to muddy the waters on their real tactics, which they don't want us to know of.Comment
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I am not sure that would be appropriate behaviour in the professional forums.Originally posted by geoffreywhereveryoumaybe View PostOG - Name and Shame thenComment
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OG, could I remind you about the main post in the hidden forum?Originally posted by Old Greg View PostExactly. I happen to know that a couple of posters are in fact agents masquerading as contractors.Comment
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I'm not sure what you mean but don't get yourself greylisted, young man.Originally posted by MyUserName View PostOG, could I remind you about the main post in the hidden forum?Comment
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