Reply to: Good and Bad IT agencies..recommendations?

[Pondlife]

how about this one.

avoid all agencies they are all bloodsucking *******

What do you care - you're leaving IT anyway.

[el duder]

how about this one.

avoid all agencies they are all bloodsucking *******

[Pondlife]

It's just going to be full of agencies slagging each other off and spam.

[malvolio]

You have to wonder at some people though...

Quote from their forum on Employment - "The last time I worked with WebSpehere was 4 years ago, used it for two months". So if you don't know it and can't use it and you don't want to be contacted about it, WTF is it doing on your CV then?

Meanwhile, the site can still get sued for libel. Give it two months...

[Torran]

A new forum called badagencies.com has just been launched. It's about IT contracting but also about other types of agencies.
The initial purpose of the forum is to share bad experiences with agencies and to offer people more guidance about which agencies to use and which not, do's and don'ts, what agencies actually do with your CV and details(You will be amazed) and other bad practice.
A first number of posts is needed to get the forum going in at least a few sections.

Go to http://www.badagencies.com register for free and share your views.

you might have spellchecked before you went live

[Cowboy Bob]

A new forum called badagencies.com has just been launched. It's about IT contracting but also about other types of agencies.
The initial purpose of the forum is to share bad experiences with agencies and to offer people more guidance about which agencies to use and which not, do's and don'ts, what agencies actually do with your CV and details(You will be amazed) and other bad practice.
A first number of posts is needed to get the forum going in at least a few sections.

Go to http://www.badagencies.com register for free and share your views.

Looks good. And hosted outside the UK to keep away from legal issues. Nice...

[bwestrik]

badagencies.com

A new forum called badagencies.com has just been launched. It's about IT contracting but also about other types of agencies.
The initial purpose of the forum is to share bad experiences with agencies and to offer people more guidance about which agencies to use and which not, do's and don'ts, what agencies actually do with your CV and details(You will be amazed) and other bad practice.
A first number of posts is needed to get the forum going in at least a few sections.

Go to http://www.badagencies.com register for free and share your views.

[Piotrish]

Avoid Fullcircle recruitment like the plague.

[abc]

I am surprised by threads like this to be honest.

When people are out of work (or coming to the end of a contract) - don't they do what I do and just go on jobserve? Surely you are stuck with the agent you apply with?

Many contracts are being handled by multiple agencies.

It is quite possible to make an educated quess that if (say) three new contracts turn up in the space of two days, with a similar or identical skill set, same location and start date, that they are quite possibly duplicates of the same role, just posted by different agencies used by the client.

So you can choose to reply to the instance of the job posted by a non S3, or even more than one non S3. When you get a call back, find out the client and eliminate any remaining duplication that way, when you get other calls for that role.

[oraclesmith]

I am surprised by threads like this to be honest.

When people are out of work (or coming to the end of a contract) - don't they do what I do and just go on jobserve? Surely you are stuck with the agent you apply with?

If you use the CUK search, you will find that some contracts are clearly being advertised by numerous agencies. I had one the other day who thought they were the clients sole agent until I pointed out a rival agency had also advertised the contract. I'm sure some of them just steal each others write-ups !

[errorista]

I have added them to the 'Jobjock' - 'standard' filter.

If you sign up and use JJ then you need only check the tickbox and you wont see their posts anymore.

Enjoy!

[TK421]

Some time ago I had dealings with MSB International - avoid!

The agent had lined up an interview, client definitely interested, rang me to suggest a time and said that he would confirm with the client and let me know, since the interview was going to be in two days.

Now been 9 months - I guess the time I suggested (9.30am) wasn't convenient!

[Robwg]

I am surprised by threads like this to be honest.

When people are out of work (or coming to the end of a contract) - don't they do what I do and just go on jobserve? Surely you are stuck with the agent you apply with?

[BradNeedsYourHelp]

error, I wouldn't mind testing your app.

do you still need volunteers?

[lukemg]

Happy to Error, not giving me the option to PM, can you send me one first ?