Reply to: Rating recruitment agencies

[malvolio]

Besides which, the system has no value unless you can pick the agency to work with. Most of the time, that is not an option.

[NiceUpNorth]

Wouldn't mean much.

You happening to stumble across a decent agent doesn't mean the agency is decent, and vice versa.

WHS

[EddieNambulous]

Can we make a list of good and bad agencies here?

Wouldn't mean much.

You happening to stumble across a decent agent doesn't mean the agency is decent, and vice versa.

[Epiphone]

http://www.hirescores.com/

[Tarquin Farquhar]

What a complete waste of time a rating system for agencies would be.

You may as well vote on "Rate my poo"

I concur with this rating: all agents are poo

[DodgyAgent]

What a complete waste of time a rating system for agencies would be.

You may as well vote on "Rate my poo"

[northernladuk]

We would go fruit loop if agents published a public list of contractors and their ratings. Just can't happen.

Didn't this happen in the building trade recently and all got messy?

Just assume they are all lying, thieving toe-rags and you won't go far wrong.

That's the whole purpose of rating - isn't it? If 99% people rate them good and 1% rate them bad, everyone knows how good they are

But we have a totally different type of relationship with agencies compared to buying goods. The comments around assuming a pimp is lying if his lips are moving is a fine example. As is mentioned already you might have a great agency and one bad agent you someone has a person issue with, your post will not be a fair representation. You will say again this is the idea of ratings to weed out the bad eggs but you simply cannot go naming and slanging off indivdual people. That is just not right on any forum. Enough of these and the whole quality of the service hits the floor. GIGO.

[minestrone]

We would go fruit loop if agents published a public list of contractors and their ratings. Just can't happen.

Knowing agents is something you just have to learn from experience.

[RichardCranium]

Can we make a list of good and bad agencies here?

No and yes.

HTH

PS what about the bad agencies with the solitary good agent? Or the sort-of-OK-agencies with the occasional utter tulipe?

Just assume they are all lying, thieving toe-rags and you won't go far wrong.

[MrMark]

Well this site doesn't rate agencies, but it does rate companies by their employees, so could be interesting reading.

[mobi]

Someone might have set too with one agency and whinge about it on here where as 100's of others might be happy with them.

That's the whole purpose of rating - isn't it? If 99% people rate them good and 1% rate them bad, everyone knows how good they are.

We have similar rating at sites like ciao.co.uk, trustedreviews.com etc. for various products and services. Why not have the same for recruitment?

[darmstadt]

The GULP (German equivalent to Jobserve) actually has something like this. the have a section called the Weise List where you can rate agencies for various different subjects, but its not open to all, just subscribers and it does actually provide a good overview of various agencies and what their good points are.

[northernladuk]

Can we make a list of good and bad agencies here?

Personally I think it's a sh*t idea anyway. Someone might have set too with one agency and whinge about it on here where as 100's of others might be happy with them.

What good is this going to do but just create a slanging match of personal issues IMHO

[BrilloPad]

Have you tried freelance supermarket?

[TheFaQQer]

The site may be American, but it has reviews companies all over the world eg. UK, USA, India etc.

Yes, but the point that the Times article linked to by cojak was that there are things that can be published in America under their right to free speech, that would count as libellous in this country.

As a result, some American publishers are considering blocking content to UK users to reduce the risk of being sued.