Agency regulation

[TheOmegaMan]

We really need to clean up the agency system in this country. Here is my five point plan:

1) Set up a regulator funded by a 5% mandatory contribution of turnover from every agency.

2) Regular three year assessment leading to a grading of each consultancy. The higher the grading the lower the levy. Can be used to market services to corporate clients.

3) Compulsory degree education for every recruitment consultant. Professional qualifications potentially lead to a reduction in the levy.

4) Prohibit advertising of non-existent positions, encourage disclosure of margin, prohibit CV trawling. Regulator has the power to fine agencies who do not adhere to these regulations

5) Set up a complaints procedure for grievances against agencies. Financial compensation possible through fines levied by the regulator.

It is not perfect, but it a start - we need to create a market which rewards service rather than just the financial gain of the reccon.

Jabberwocky

[DodgyAgent]

We really need to clean up the agency system in this country. Here is my five point plan:

1) Set up a regulator funded by a 5% mandatory contribution of turnover from every agency.

Who would be the regulator? and if an agency makes 2% profit what would be the point of it?
2) Regular three year assessment leading to a grading of each consultancy. The higher the grading the lower the levy. Can be used to market services to corporate clients.

Who does the grading? and how are agencies measured?
3) Compulsory degree education for every recruitment consultant. Professional qualifications potentially lead to a reduction in the levy.

why does a degree make someone better at being a recruitment agnt. You have a degree and you are a complete knob for example.
4) Prohibit advertising of non-existent positions, encourage disclosure of margin, prohibit CV trawling. Regulator has the power to fine agencies who do not adhere to these regulations

how do you determine a non existent job? what about a job that has been filled between the advert being placed and the contractor applying?
5) Set up a complaints procedure for grievances against agencies. Financial compensation possible through fines levied by the regulator.

It is not perfect, but it a start - we need to create a market which rewards service rather than just the financial gain of the reccon.

That is not a market that is a command economy.

Jabberwocky

Now what a bout some regulation of contractors? where exactly did you get your degree? off the internet?

[kingshuk]

Hmm.. sounds pretty much like a page out of new labour manifesto. I can almost hear Patricia Hewitt championing it in her usual condescending tone in radio4 :-)


And this

3) Compulsory degree education for every recruitment consultant.

beggars belief. Do you think you will like dealing with agents more if they can show their degree certificate first ?

[Contracting Rob]

I've met office juniors with more qualifications and intellect.

[shaunbhoy]

It is not perfect,

Jabberwocky

We never expected it to be, emanating from where it did. Look, it is perfectly simple, if you can't market yourself properly then learn to deal with that and stop railing against the prevailing system. You are either a proper business or, as I strongly suspect, a personality-devoid hyper-geeky billy-no-mates that uses his "qualifications" as some form of social crutch. Give it a rest, your perspective is about as relevant as the musings of mental pygmies like AtW or milan. In fact you are beginning to sound like Francko!!

[TheOmegaMan]

Now what a bout some regulation of contractors? where exactly did you get your degree? off the internet?

No need to regulate contractors - we are a resource - you have the option of finding another contractor or hiring a perm if they are not satisfactory.

The agencies though distort the market - especially S3 - and as self-regulation has not worked we need to bring in a regulator.

People offering a professional service should be professionally qualified. Rather than reward those who post false job ads, trawl for CVs and fish for leads, we need to reward professional service and those who add value.

This five point plan is a blueprint for the recruitment industry. It is a plan for the 21st century which put people first over material reward.

[DodgyAgent]

No need to regulate contractors - we are a resource - you have the option of finding another contractor or hiring a perm if they are not satisfactory.

The agencies though distort the market - especially S3 - and as self-regulation has not worked we need to bring in a regulator.

People offering a professional service should be professionally qualified. Rather than reward those who post false job ads, trawl for CVs and fish for leads, we need to reward professional service and those who add value.

This five point plan is a blueprint for the recruitment industry. It is a plan for the 21st century which put people first over material reward.

You are just not important enough to warrant such an elite system to support what is effectively a group of plumbers on typewriters.

[boredsenseless]

We really need to clean up the agency system in this country. Here is my five point plan:

1) Set up a regulator funded by a 5% mandatory contribution of turnover from every agency.

Jabberwocky

Actually you are wrong, the agents don't need to be regulated they already are there is a huge raft of legislation around the conduct of employment businesses.

However if you feel that regulation should be in place, why should they pay for it, surely the only fair way is that contractors who wish to use a regulated agent should agree to a 5% levy on their rate going to the regulator.

Of course this means same cash to agent, some cash to regulator and less cash to contractor but then you get what you pay for in this world.

[boredsenseless]

You are just not important enough to warrant such an elite system to support what is effectively a group of plumbers on typewriters.

Hey =- unfair... some of us are okay. There are pr1ck5 in every walk of life the trick is not to label everyone with the same brush

[blatant_pimp]

slightly different view . . .

We really need to clean up the contractor system in this country. Here is my five point plan:

1) Set up a regulator funded by a 5% mandatory contribution of turnover from every contractor.

2) Regular three year assessment leading to a grading of each contractor. The higher the grading the lower the levy. Can be used to market services to corporate clients.

3) CV's must be 'approved' by 2 references, who can be fined if the information is misleading

4) Prohibit replying to positions when the contractor have no intention of accepting. Regulator has the power to fine contractors who do not adhere to these regulations

5) Set up a complaints procedure for grievances against contractors. Financial compensation possible through fines levied by the regulator.

It is not perfect, but it a start - we need to create a market which rewards service rather than just the financial gain of the reccon.