Why don't we name and shame Agents?

[Boo]

Now I know its all down to personal experience, who you speak to on the day in which office etc but why do we never share bad expereinces with Pimps?

There is a website called Hirescores which allows people to rate recruitment agencies. I dunno how accurate the ratings are though as the system seems a bit prone to "manipulation".

Hth,

Boo

[escapeUK]

Well yes, the legal implications are quite pertinent.

How can they be? If you look for reviews of O2 for instance, there are loads of people slagging them off, same with most other things.

[MrMark]

There was a website up many years ago that did this but they had to take it down. There were a number of the bigger agencies that were being slagged off and who made legal threats.

Well yes, the legal implications are quite pertinent.

Additionally, suppose the tables were turned and an agency site published rumour and opinion about certain contractors eg

Contractor M1 likes to blag his way onto contracts and his cv should be taken with a pinch of salt
Contractor M2 is quite diligent but only when sober..
Contractor M3 has a habit of jumping ship for higher paid contracts.

There isn't anything like this, is there? (apart from that black-list of course!)

[BoredBloke]

There was a website up many years ago that did this but they had to take it down. There were a number of the bigger agencies that were being slagged off and who made legal threats.

[NotAllThere]

I'm too busy earning money.

[manclarky]

Shirley its a good idea

Don't call me Shirley!

Surely there's a better name out there?

[Wanderer]

Why don't we name and shame Agents?

Because they have more money to spend on lawyers than we do.

Or maybe because they are all tulipe.

[northernladuk]

which meant: I got what I'd previously been getting, plus the agent's markup (60%)*, plus what had been the VAT (I wasn't registered for it at the time)**.

So he can go on the 'Name and Fame' list. Quite a result that

I am assuming here he is still in a job of course!

[thunderlizard]

Back in the depths of time. I had a 3 month contract via an agency.

About 12 months after the end of that, the client contacted me to do a bit more work. Only problem was - and they were very apologetic - that they'd only budgeted exactly the same as they were paying the agency for me last time.

which meant: I got what I'd previously been getting, plus the agent's markup (60%)*, plus what had been the VAT (I wasn't registered for it at the time)**.

That's the only time a contract involving an agency ever went well for me.

*i.e. agent had been on 37.5% margin
** so I wasn't invoicing for it as VAT. Lord knows what was going on at their end.

[The Agents View]

I thought that might happen

[MaryPoppins]

Not likely to get sued for posting positive stuff - why not reverse it and have a list of "good experiences" rather than naming and shaming the bad.....It'll probably be a smaller list too

[The Agents View]

I think CUK don't want to get sued.

Not likely to get sued for posting positive stuff - why not reverse it and have a list of "good experiences" rather than naming and shaming the bad.....It'll probably be a smaller list too

[d000hg]

I think CUK don't want to get sued.

[MarillionFan]

I've moved past the point of whining and bitching about agents.

Some are good, some are bad. Take the rough with the smooth.

[SimonMac]

Now I know its all down to personal experience, who you speak to on the day in which office etc but why do we never share bad expereinces with Pimps?

Recently there has been a few subtle intimations that Agent XXX is screwing me over, Agent YYY is being unreasonable, Shirley its a good idea to at least let other people know otherwise they will just keep walking over us and will never learn that they need us as much as we need them.

Would a better bet be to share GOOD expereinces of Agents?