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Fake CV from agent caught. oops
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostWhile IT agents are the lowest of the low other agents have more ethics in comparison.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostI've had a few gins, but I'm failing to see what benefit a fake CV brings to the agency?
Another gin m'lady?'CUK forum personality of 2011 - Winner - Yes really!!!!Comment
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostAgents email job specs to it and them they approach the client and try place on of their contractors. Trying to find clients with open positions.
Another gin m'lady?Comment
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostTa. I have underestimated agents.
The agent put his work email on the fake CV."You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Sweaty agents are scurrilous twunts shock.
What post did i see earlier about "people need to drop their paranoia regarding the honest as the day is long agency staff and spend hours on the blower giving agents all their contacts etc..." I paraphrase but still...Last edited by OnceStonedRose; 11 February 2016, 23:01.Comment
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Its not just agents who pull off some dodgy stunts, clients can also be just as bad.
One very well known investment bank in Edinburgh brought me in for an interview and they told they agency I was great but I wouldn't be offered the job. I then got an email a day later from the hiring manager offering me a permanent role. I wasn't the only contractor that had this experience. They were arrogant enough to think that because they were a great company that I would instantly be grateful to have an offer to join.Comment
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I am not going to defend agents practices. In fact I find many of them quite pathetic and crude to the point where I am happy to join in with the ridicule. But that is what they (we?) are - basic unsophisticated unintelligent (Oxford brooks level degrees at best) twunts. I would however in case any of you contractors get too carried away with hate and resentment (to be fair most contractors rise above this behaviour) it may be worth looking at some of the practices of your dear erstwhile "end clients"
Whether it a bank, retailer, utility you earn your £500 a day from just remember they are far worse, far more effective and far more successful at scamming people than any recruitment agent is. And these are the ones you are happy to take your large rate from UK supermarkets dupe shoppers out of hundreds of millions, says Which? | Business | The GuardianLet us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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Originally posted by ContractorHardman View PostIts not just agents who pull off some dodgy stunts, clients can also be just as bad.
One very well known investment bank in Edinburgh brought me in for an interview and they told they agency I was great but I wouldn't be offered the job. I then got an email a day later from the hiring manager offering me a permanent role. I wasn't the only contractor that had this experience. They were arrogant enough to think that because they were a great company that I would instantly be grateful to have an offer to join.
You beat me to itLet us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyoneComment
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