Agents asking a million and one questions

**DimPrawn** · 16 April 2013, 10:03

Over to you dodgy......

**DodgyAgent** · 16 April 2013, 10:04

Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

Over to you dodgy......

what's a question?

**eek** · 16 April 2013, 10:10

Originally posted by NorthWestPerm2Contr View Post

What is it with agencies calling to discuss your CV in detail? Asking for lots of information which they will not understand and not be able to do anything with? Just ended up telling the pimp that my CV didn't need them to know anything more than what was on my CV and that it would sell itself. Pimp wasted 15 mins asking me questions which I kept answering with quick answers that basically told them they don't need to know.

You've got the wrong approach there. I try to educate the agent so that they have a little bit of knowledge the next time they see a client. Its a win win for me as when they want someone who can do x, they think of me and know that:-

1) I'm helpful
2) can explain it in simple terms to laypeople.

**NickFitz** · 16 April 2013, 10:11

I think they're just trying to look busy until the boss leaves the office and they can go back to surfing porn.

**DimPrawn** · 16 April 2013, 10:14

Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

I think they're just trying to look busy until the boss leaves the office and they can go back to surfing porn.

Most logical answer so far.

**bobspud** · 16 April 2013, 10:18

Happy to talk to agents and educate them as long as they can absorb the information.

I once spent 30 minutes trying to explain to some ditsy bird why she couldn't find a technical architect that specialised in Java. I had tried to point out to her that java was software development based and that solutions architects tend to come from that background rather than technical architects who are infrastructure people.

She could not get it and kept saying but java is technical.

Shame she was quite pretty and I would have loved to shag her brains out but had obviously been beaten to the the job...

**darmstadt** · 16 April 2013, 10:20

Because they're failed estate agents who think a Java Combo Box is an built in coffee machine

**sbakoola** · 16 April 2013, 10:32

It usually ends with "could you supply us with two references".

**moggy** · 16 April 2013, 10:33

Originally posted by eek View Post

You've got the wrong approach there. I try to educate the agent so that they have a little bit of knowledge the next time they see a client. Its a win win for me as when they want someone who can do x, they think of me and know that:-

1) I'm helpful
2) can explain it in simple terms to laypeople.

This +1

Agents asking a million and one questions