Agencies and reference checks - what's the deal?

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JoJoGabor replied

21 September 2011, 07:07
Originally posted by TraceRacing View Post

I think we're missing a trick here... we should setup a database with our contact details and somehow manage to "paypal" to it and get 2 names / numbers... a automated email to say your name has been provided to an agency and have fun whent they call.... all candidates are excellent, but it's not company policy to put anything in writing etc....

Don't the bobs do that already?
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TraceRacing replied

20 September 2011, 20:57
I think we're missing a trick here... we should setup a database with our contact details and somehow manage to "paypal" to it and get 2 names / numbers... a automated email to say your name has been provided to an agency and have fun whent they call.... all candidates are excellent, but it's not company policy to put anything in writing etc....
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Zippy replied

20 September 2011, 20:44
Don't tell him Pike!
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knight007 replied

20 September 2011, 20:43
whoops, yes you're absolutely right. The info I need is in the sticky.
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stek replied

20 September 2011, 20:40
Have you read the first sticky above?
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knight007 started a topic Agencies and reference checks - what's the deal?

20 September 2011, 20:34
Agencies and reference checks - what's the deal?

I got a call from a guy at Monarch IT with a potential contract in Birmingham for an investment bank.
My first thoughts were...an investment bank in Birmingham??
Anyway I played along with it and told him i'm interested.

When I emailed him to tell me who the client was, he said he could not tell me at this stage but he was happy to submit my CV to the client?......do you not have a right to know who your CV goes to??

Anyway he then emails me back and says that the client is interested but he needs references from my previous workplace. His exact words were "I have a service level agreement with the client to reference check candidates along with their applications."...........He Still Cannot disclose who the client is!!

What do you think, Is he bulltulipting me? Is he just after some names he can contact in my previous workplace to secure some contracts? Does this role actually exist?

What client would trust an agency to do reference checks?? If I was the end client I would want to do the reference checks myself.

I tend to lose my temper with guys like this. Only problem is that if I do that, I reckon they wont put me forward for a role when it does materialise.

This isn't the first agency I've seen that is insisting on reference checks.Is this becoming normal practice? or is the market so tulip that they're getting desperate?
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