Originally posted by Malingering BA
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its your life, your future, if you change your mind and you are honest enough to say so then do it. I had one recently, a senior engineer who I took for an interview. He verbally accepted the job and then went to ground, two weeks before he was due to start I eventually got hold of him and he made some excuse about not going to start.
At first I was angry, and took the hit from the client (which shielded him from the blame) A year later we have another job and I call him. He says he knows the hiring director and is going to send his CV direct. I then explained our role in dealing with his previous change of mind, explaining that if things do go wrong the agency acts as a buffer. I also suggested he owes me a favour and he agrees for me to put him forward.
Had I got very aggressive with him for changing his mind then he would not have gone through me. Secondly, because we took a lot of the client flak the last time, he still has an open door back to that client.
It is the agents job to manage what I call behind the scenes issues such as these.
This same client had offered two other engineers jobs directly, both of who accepted. The pathetic little twerps changed their minds and instead of telling the client, they shoved letters into the letterbox the day before they were due to start. These two certainly wont get back into this client.
The moral of the story, is if the agent is a true supplier to the client use them , because it is better to abuse them than the client.
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