Unusual Hiring Process

[sandyh2001in]

Hello folks,

Just wanted to run this by the seasoned folks on here… had an agency (Pimps-R-Us) contact me for a role at a Banking client last Tuesday… the telephonic interview was conducted with - wait-a-minute - not the client but Acc*****e who are running the project at that bank . Interview went well and they promised to come back soon enough.
Now Pimps-R-Us want me to want for another week(its already more than a week since the interview) , because
a) there will be another interview with end client
b) Acc** are in talks with end client to figure out if the client should deal directly with Pimps-R-Us or through Acc****


Just cant get my head around what exactly is going on here? Is it a real role? Why would Acc*** want to cut themselves out from the middle AFTER having found suitable candidates? Why would end client not engage the agency directly to find candidates? Its just not the normal way things worked in the past, where I would get a decision after one interview within a week. This things going to easily take 2 weeks or more. Any thoughts?

[SussexSeagull]

Quite possibly real, but I would personally need a lot of money to work with Accenture!

Keep looking elsewhere and if they get back to you consider your options.

[GlenW]

Quite possibly real, but I would personally need a lot of money to work with Accenture!

Keep looking elsewhere and if they get back to you consider your options.

Why? What's wrong with Accenture?

[malvolio]

Why? What's wrong with Accenture?

Nothing at all, if you like mandatory 10 hour days and some of the most conceited middle managers on the planet.

[BlasterBates]

Accenture guys are being paid 2 grand a day so they're not really bothered about the 50 quid commission.

[psychocandy]

Nothing at all, if you like mandatory 10 hour days and some of the most conceited middle managers on the planet.

Mandatory as in they tell you 10 hr days are expected? **** that,.

[malvolio]

Accenture guys are being paid 2 grand a day so they're not really bothered about the 50 quid commission.

Accenture guys are charged out at £2000 a day (or £2250 in my case). That's a long way from what I was getting...

[Dallas]

Accenture guys are charged out at £2000 a day (or £2250 in my case). That's a long way from what I was getting...

1900 here - they powerpoint the 'landscape' then leave - waste of time.

[DirtyDog]

I worked on a project for LTSB a long while back, where Oracle consulting were replacing Accidenture. After nine months of Accidenture being there, they'd produced a room full of paper and got as far as "you need to have a B2B exchange".

Since their brief started with "we want to build a B2B exchange", that wasn't the most productive £4million they'd spent.

[sandyh2001in]

What kind of business model is at work here though?

Clientco not man enough to go and find candidates themselves through Pimps-r-us and the likes? So they get Ax-and-turd to do the grunt work for them, getting royally screwed in the process for a massive consideration. Ax-n-turd get pimps-r-us to find candidate and then take a massive cut upfront on a 6 month assignment based rate, and then get out of the mix? Why is this so convoluted? Something doesn’t smell right.