Agency (Mal)practices

**Fleetwood** · 24 March 2006, 14:29

Not even bothering with a courtesy call/email to let you know you haven't got the job

You're new to contracting, aren't you?

**eternalnomad** · 24 March 2006, 14:30

Originally posted by Spacecadet

1. Not even bothering with a courtesy call/email to let you know you haven't got the job

Add you own... see if it can get to 100

2. Not bothering to respond to your urgent email about contract variations that will be required for me to do on-call support - this is a major risk to the clients project - no contract variation then no on-call

**Muggers** · 24 March 2006, 14:39

Originally posted by Spacecadet

1. Not even bothering with a courtesy call/email to let you know you haven't got the job

Add you own... see if it can get to 100

2. It's like buying a house.... did you actually read my cv.... do you know what I actually do for a living???? i.e Putting you forward for jobs that are nowhere near your skill set.

**Spacecadet** · 24 March 2006, 14:41

Originally posted by Fleetwood

You're new to contracting, aren't you?

Well i will be when i get that contract

I've used agencies before, took the reports of them all being cheating lying scum with a pinch of salt... now i'm starting to see the light

**GBH123** · 24 March 2006, 15:48

Believing in what a contractor actually puts in their CV. See it heard about it and how an expert. Yer right.

**VectraMan** · 24 March 2006, 17:39

Originally posted by Muggers

2. It's like buying a house.... did you actually read my cv.... do you know what I actually do for a living???? i.e Putting you forward for jobs that are nowhere near your skill set.

You apply for a job that's pretty much a perfect match, you hear nothing, but a week or so later they phone you and ask if you want a job that has essential requirements that you've never ever even looked into yet alone have any experience of.

Happened to me twice in the last couple of weeks.

**zathras** · 24 March 2006, 18:02

Originally posted by Spacecadet

1. Not even bothering with a courtesy call/email to let you know you haven't got the job

Add you own... see if it can get to 100

My current client specialises in Adult Chat and dating services provided via the telephone, AND Sky TV. These are covered by a code of practice from an industry funded regulator Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of the Telephone Information Services. When perusing their website to make sure a new service keeps to it I found one covering employment agencies here; http://www.icstis.org.uk/pdfs/Guideline8.pdf and it makes interesting reading, especially the following;

Originally posted by ICSTIS Guidelines

• correspond to genuine vacancies and/or opportunities, the existence of which should be fully substantiated on request,
• not be likely to mislead a caller as to the conditions, necessary qualifications or availability or extent of any potential employment or business opportunity,
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• state the type of work to be done and its geographical location,
• state the number of workers required,
• state the basis and level of remuneration and, where known, the level of earnings that may realistically be expected.

**threaded** · 24 March 2006, 18:28

Taking paragraphs out of ones CV and posting it on jobserve as part of an advert for a ficticious job.

Too many times to count.

**thunderlizard** · 24 March 2006, 18:43

I don't get particularly annoyed by lack of follow-up calls to say you didn't get the contract. They're just deciding not to buy your service. Just like when I go to the supermarket and decide to buy Tesco's own brand curry sauce: I don't feel obliged to phone up Sherwood's and Patak's to say "sorry, maybe next time".

But it does cause them problems when you assume from 2 days' silence you didn't get it and then accept something else instead.

Agency (Mal)practices