Reply to: False feedback mystery

[TykeMerc]

What a strange thread, can it be moved to General so all us fake contractors can tear this muppet a few new orifices like the sponging agents we all are (apparently)?

[aoxomoxoa]

Random thought

False Feedback Mystery - wasn't that a Hendrix song?

[CheeseSlice]

Your "friend"?

the name 'pauly' comes to mind.
No idea why though, completely random thought.

[jmo21]

It's not an opinion, it is an inaccuracy, a denial of facts.

Do you believe everything people tell you? How do they know he is not lying?

[Old Greg]

Isn't that defamatory?

We know your game.

[flipFlop]

...

A friend of mine recently attended an interview via an agency, but didn't get the job. He suspected it was because the agent had sent in cheaper candidates to the end client also.

He asked why he was rejected and got email feedback from the end client.

However the feedback was incorrect. It stated my friend only had entry level/procedural and systematic work experience, while the end client wanted someone more 'senior' who had worked more independently and carried out investigations on their own initiative etc.

But my friend has done this more senior work for the best part of a decade... this was made clear on CV and from examples provided at interview.

Therefore the basis for rejection was false and my friend considers it libelous and defamatory.

What course of action do you think my friend should take?

Your "friend"?

[alluvial]

There is only one contractor on this site.

I'm the contractor!

[craig1]

Two, one's a sockie.

There is only one contractor on this site.

[alluvial]

It no use, he's rumbled us all. The three actual contractors on the site will probably leave now :-(

Two, one's a sockie.

[MyUserName]

Isn't that defamatory?

It no use, he's rumbled us all. The three actual contractors on the site will probably leave now :-(

[masonryan]

Isn't that defamatory?

No. It's true.

[mudskipper]

Agreed. Remember many giving advice on this thread are apologists for recruitment agents, seeking to muddy the waters on their real tactics, which they don't want us to know of.

Isn't that defamatory?

[DieScum]

few interviews are carried out well, often they don't really know what they want, they don't ask the right questions, candidates mysteriously forget things they said they knew and sometimes the interviewer will have been sent to keep the candidate company because the decision maker has suddenly found himself busy doing something else.

That's a brilliant overview of the interview process. Very true.

[socialworker]

Boys

You are all to leave masonryan minor alone. Now go and find something useful to do.

Old Greg, see me after prayers.

[MyUserName]

Greylisting is more complicated and nuanced than blacklisting. I can't say too much, but it is algorithm based with agent feedback being a significant contributor, and with multiple scores as outputs, rather than just a simple blacklisted or not blacklisted.

To be honest I use a lot of the feedback from this site to develop the algorithm ... erm - I mean I'm a contractor!!!!! Have been doing WPF and HTML5 for over 30 years!!!!