What's in the head of an agent?

[vetran]

What's in the head of an agent?

not a lot in many cases when they work for the larger agencies.

[tractor]

..

Why am I not surprised?

Because he only gets calls from agents?

[DodgyAgent]

Because he only gets calls from agents?

He has no friends then?

[greenlake]

What's in the head of an agent?

[d000hg]

I absolutely loathe talking on the phone. Luckily the only people who still use it to communicate are agents, phone spammers, and my parents. If the phone rings

My mum uses it too actually.

[Platypus]

And there is if they record them.

Have yo ever noticed that if they want to find a recording of you, they can. If you ask for their recording of them, it can't be found.

NB. doesn't just apply to agents

[NickFitz]

My mum uses it too actually.

Well next time she calls you, ask her why she never calls me.

[d000hg]

Well next time she calls you, ask her why she never calls me.

She does, you never pick up.

[NotAllThere]

Is there any particular reason why the agents consistently refuse using email as a communication tool and instead prefer annoying people calling them in the office when they know a conversation won't be constructive?

It's easier to ignore emails.

[darmstadt]

A phone call from an agent is an exercise in having a pointless futile conversation and 9 times out of 10 a waste of time. They call up and tell you they have the 'possibility' of a contract doing xyz which is where it all falls down. The majority of the time they don't know what the hell xyz is and how it relates to your skillset, mostly never. I spent about 10 minutes explaining to an agent that although product line abc includes xyz, what he actually wanted was mno and maybe instead of just saying abc, if he had said mno then we would have both saved a bit of time (oh, and product line abc also includes a couple of hundred applications so he ought to learn sometting about it!) Most of the agents here surprisingly enough actually know that and will first send me an e-mail with detailed specs and then either call me or I'll call them (it only tends to be hair gelled UK agents that call with no knowledge.) Maybe recruitment agents should take a leaf out of other salesman's books and actually learn something about what they're trying to sell, even car salesmen and estate agents have to show some savvy.





(* I don't know how it is in the UK but over here, depending upon which area you work in sales, you'll be expected to know what you're talking about which is why even the lowest sales assistant will get training on the product they are selling. The PFY in the large white goods store is expected to be able to answer questions on the goods otherwise the customer will go elsewhere which I think is a good idea.)