Progressive: Experience

Re: Progress: Experience

I'm working thru them now, I'd put them in my B category, OK but you have to keep them under watch. A is good, C is avoid like the plague. A few admin @#%$ ups regarding contracts but ok on the payment front, always prompt and I would think safe that they won't go bust ( but you never know !? ).

Progress: Experience

Forgot to add in previous post their guy in Holland put me forward (allegedly) for a contract in Amsterdam and followed up by saying that as he had put me forward for one company he then had the right to my services for any other Dutch company, if I went via another agency for any other dutch position he would sue me. He also insisted that everyone must work via Prosperity4.

Let him know I'm an experienced contractor and if he wants to try and bullly me I will retalliate. When I did get a contract in Amsterdam for another company via another agency promptly called him and called his bluff. Needless to say he wimped out

From what i see they post A LOT of fake positions to CV farm.

Had an amusing selection of posting from them on jobserve last month for access developers (urgent!!!), started off at low but just bearly passable rate and every 2nd day for about 2 weeks position was reposted with very minor changes and a rate cut.

By time they were done the tea boy would be earning more than any developer who took the non existant postion.

Obviously seeing how low devs in that area would go, either for the clients or more likely so they could see how much they could increase their margins.

Re: Progress: Experience

That sounds true of my experience with them so far. Admittedly, I'm the first to complain about agents failing to provide feedback over a potential position, but this is the other extreme. Their agent calls me multiple times each day (to repeat the same thing) and even wanted me to sign an agreement that I wouldn't accept any other offer on the chance that their client might offer me a role in two weeks time, although no guarantees on their part!

they've been around

for a while so i suppose they must have some genuine stuff amongst all the fluff. my last contract via an agency was with them and it went ok. even got a dinner and a bottle of plonk out of it iirc.

Re: Progress: Experience

(specialist IT recruitment)

Is that what they told you?

Progress: Experience

Give a lot of talk and come up with nothing - otherwise known as aggressive progressive by other recruiters. Often want references up front for an imaginable contract.

Re: Progress: Experience

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Dear old Regressive.

Yup. Did one for them.

Paid alright as I recall.

Has anyone ever dealt with an agency called Progressive (specialist IT recruitment)?

I've been dealing with them for the past two weeks over a position and I've already got strong reservations about them (even by agency standards).