Reply to: can't believe agents are like this....

[Zippy]

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Ooch. Tough market at the mo. Hopefully you'll be able to avoid the pimps till it picks up again.

We are all doooooooooomed of course

[MPwannadecentincome]

If you know someone who is already at the client, WTF are you doing wasting your time going through an agency?

Shame that isn't it - I only found out about the role at that client from the agency not from anyone I knew there already. Thing is its a large co so difficult for them to keep track of what roles are going - its not like a perm job list as gigs for the role I am going for are normally kept a little quiet in this co.

[SantaClaus]

Rule 1: Never trust a pimp.
Rule 2: Follow Rule 1.

[TheFaQQer]

ha - all they got out of me was:
a) one reference - my mate who had already been for an interview
b) another reference - someone who already works at that client

If you know someone who is already at the client, WTF are you doing wasting your time going through an agency?

[MPwannadecentincome]

Ha! They'll be back
What type of work do you do?

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[MPwannadecentincome]

Get yer own back - go direct.

Actually I already do and have been since I started contracting, unfortunately work will be finishing in Oct and I need to find a new role.

[AlfredJPruffock]

As unfair as it seems, I think that's fairly typical for the interview process. You end up hiring people who are good at interviews, rather than good at the intended job.

I enjoy interviews - for me its ShowTime - oh by now I really know my technical stuff which is useful - but for those whom an interview is an ordeal - contracting might not be your cuppa tea.

[Zippy]

ha - all they got out of me was:
a) one reference - my mate who had already been for an interview
b) another reference - someone who already works at that client

Ha! They'll be back
What type of work do you do?

[Cliphead]

sorry

20+ years contracting you can imagine my opinion of pimps and nothing anybody will ever post about a pimp's doings will surprise or shock me.

Get yer own back - go direct.

[MPwannadecentincome]

You were on the phone, s/he/it felt chatty and the sneaky, suspicious part of me suspects that the pimp thought you might be chatty about (potential) clients if s/he/it engaged you in conversation

ha - all they got out of me was:
a) one reference - my mate who had already been for an interview
b) another reference - someone who already works at that client

[Zippy]

About a year and so far working direct...
but why bother giving me feedback about someone else?

You were on the phone, s/he/it felt chatty and the sneaky, suspicious part of me suspects that the pimp thought you might be chatty about (potential) clients if s/he/it engaged you in conversation

[MPwannadecentincome]

Yet another 'I can't believe these pimps' threads

sorry

[MPwannadecentincome]

Crikey! How long have you been a contractor?

About a year and so far working direct...
but why bother giving me feedback about someone else?

[EddieNambulous]

the reason if given is more than likely a load of rubbish anyway.

Yep, I don't generally believe the reasons given to me as feedback. If you think back carefully over the interview and the interviewers reactions, you'll probably get more useful info.

When I was a permie sitting in as a second interviewer, the hiring manager would just invent any old random reason as agent feedback for not hiring.

Usually, apart from obvious technical incompetence, the truth was that there was something about the interviewee that the hiring manager just didn't like or feel comfortable about during the interview.

As unfair as it seems, I think that's fairly typical for the interview process. You end up hiring people who are good at interviews, rather than good at the intended job.

[Cliphead]

Yet another 'I can't believe these pimps' threads