To the agents out there

[d000hg]

I have a thought, for the future, that running a recruitment firm staffed entirely by ex-techies might be worth a go. I even figured out how to keep said techies interested doing something they'd not normally consider (other than paying them £100k).

Anyone want to bankroll me?

[TriggerHippy]

Rejections from candidates ?

"here, have this job"

"no i'm not good enough"

???

"Here, have this job. I know before the interview, I said the rate was £440/day, but now the clients suffered a budget adjustment, so he's only going to offer you £170/day"

"No, that's not good enough"

-- Fixed that for you

[Stolly]

IT workers would not be thick skined enough to deal with the rejections from clients and candidates

Rejections from candidates ?

"here, have this job"

"no i'm not good enough"

???

[Recruitment Agent]

Fixed that for you.

Thanks

[RichardCranium]

Everyone starts their recruitment career with morals, until they get turned over by their first candidate being poached by another dodgy recruitment agent.

Fixed that for you.

[BrilloPad]

No-one starts their recruitment career with morals, then its downhill from there

HTH

[Recruitment Agent]

You mean they have a sense of morality?

Everyone starts their recruitment career with morals, its when they get turned over by their first candidate saying they are starting a job on Monday, then they blowout last minute for the job paying more money becuase of that late offer from the client who they thought was not never going to come.

[Platypus]

During a downturn why not hire unemployed IT workers as recruitment agents doing some backend stuff like CV sieving? That way, you'd get some up to date input in to the needs of the industry and the IT workers will get an insight in to the challenges being faced in recruitment.

You probably know the answer to that already.

[BrilloPad]

IT workers would not be thick skined enough to deal with the rejections from clients and candidates

You mean they have a sense of morality?

[Recruitment Agent]

During a downturn why not hire unemployed IT workers as recruitment agents doing some backend stuff like CV sieving? That way, you'd get some up to date input in to the needs of the industry and the IT workers will get an insight in to the challenges being faced in recruitment.

IT workers would not be thick skined enough to deal with the rejections from clients and candidates

[KentPhilip]

During a downturn why not hire unemployed IT workers as recruitment agents doing some backend stuff like CV sieving? That way, you'd get some up to date input in to the needs of the industry and the IT workers will get an insight in to the challenges being faced in recruitment.

You'd have to do it for free.

[BrilloPad]

Cos they can hire chavs to do the work cheaper. And the results show......

[mace]

During a downturn why not hire unemployed IT workers as recruitment agents doing some backend stuff like CV sieving? That way, you'd get some up to date input in to the needs of the industry and the IT workers will get an insight in to the challenges being faced in recruitment.