Evolution Recruitment

[joe72]

I just got the updated version

Please click here to enter your references from your most recent employers. It would be good, where possible, to show them to companies that are interested in you. This will really help you get the position you want as it creates credibility with your application.

Ideally the references you give will be/have been, your direct line manager at the company. Include your current/most recent employer; however they will not be approached without your prior written permiss ion.

In addition, in reply to this email, it is important that you keep me updated with any details of where you have sent your CV and where you have been/are going for interview. This includes company applied for, location, role applied for and manager's name if possible.

This is so that any applications I make on your behalf will not damage any pre-existing applications, this will save wasting your time and help me work faster.

Finally, please keep me up to date with your employment situation i.e. interviews or job offers as it would be unfair to put you forward to anyone should your situation change

I had previously spoken to the lass who sent me the email - she had a rather flimsy cover story to explain why she couldn't tell me what company she was planning to send me CV to. My guess is that's the last I'll hear from her.

[CheeseSlice]

Registered just to post this up, but got exactly the same email and mailed back asking what they were playing at..no reply and no surprise there. What was interesting was I called them up, as soon as I mentioned his name (Michael Davis) they transferred me to voicemail.

Guy who picked up the phone was pretty insistent on trying to harvest information on the callers...an agency I'll not use in the future!

He's a top bloke that Michael Davis.

Looked him up on Linkedin. He's got a "1st class honours degree in Psychology".

That makes him super clever at fooling us into giving him our clientco contacts and references.

[minestrone]

[MarillionFan]

Just tell them

Majestic 12
The Business Park
Birmingham
BM1 145

Contact : AtW
Rate : £600 per day

'Oh and BTW Mr Agent he has loads of roles he's struggling to fill'

[Pugs]

Update

Well, to be fair sided, I did get a reply back from the recruiter in question after I sent another mail, blaming the issues on a certain error and apologising. So we'll see if it happens again.

I'll certainly hang out here more though, nice site.

Thanks!

[Pugs]

Same here...

Registered just to post this up, but got exactly the same email and mailed back asking what they were playing at..no reply and no surprise there. What was interesting was I called them up, as soon as I mentioned his name (Michael Davis) they transferred me to voicemail.

Guy who picked up the phone was pretty insistent on trying to harvest information on the callers...an agency I'll not use in the future!

[OwlHoot]

Not quite "can I have 2 references", but this is certainly phishing in my book

Damn right - They're taking the phish!

[MrMark]

Evolution are awful with their thinly veiled tricks...I replied to a mail the other week asking if they're having trouble with no clients seeing as they're desperately fishing

More to the point - how do they fill their vacancies if they ever get hold of one? I make a point of never applying for a role advertised by Evolution or Hoaxley, as I never believe they have any!

[Muttley08]

Evolution are awful with their thinly veiled tricks...I replied to a mail the other week asking if they're having trouble with no clients seeing as they're desperately fishing

[Paddy]

Not quite "can I have 2 references", but this is certainly phishing in my book


Where have you been on interview, or sent your CV in the last month? (based on London only)

I need to know this before we go forward with the application as I do not
want to damage my relationship with the client as they have a number of offices including this one. So please also include the office.


I didn't apply for this role, and I'm not even a developer!



How pathetic..

Mr G Raff 020 7942 5000
Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London
SW7 5BD
UK

[CheeseSlice]

I've just got the exact same message, but with Senior .NET developer (that I didn't apply for).

You're obviously worth a higher daily rate then

I replied to mine and asked to see the job spec again as I must have misplaced it
Still waiting for a response....

[Scary]

Not quite "can I have 2 references", but this is certainly phishing in my book
I didn't apply for this role, and I'm not even a developer!



How pathetic..

I've just got the exact same message, but with Senior .NET developer (that I didn't apply for).

[Mich the Tester]

Some of the Hoaxley lot are rather irritating in their fake mateyness.

‘Hi Mich, how’s it going? Where are you working now?’

‘Erm, OK, but I don’t believe I know you’

‘You know me, it’s Pete/Dave/Jim from Hoaxley; anyway, where are you working now?’

‘Erm, <clientco>.’

‘Oh, are your working under (insert randomly invented name)?’

‘No, never heard of him’

‘Oh yes, he was replaced by someone, what’s his name again, erm…’

´I don´t know´

And so on.

[Spacecadet]

Not quite "can I have 2 references", but this is certainly phishing in my book
I didn't apply for this role, and I'm not even a developer!



How pathetic..

They need to get leads somehow!

[CheeseSlice]

Not quite "can I have 2 references", but this is certainly phishing in my book
I didn't apply for this role, and I'm not even a developer!

Hi CheeseSlice,



Thank you for applying for the .NET Developer role in London.


I like the look of your CV for this role, before we move forward,

Where have you been on interview, or sent your CV in the last month? (based on London only)

I need to know this before we go forward with the application as I do not
want to damage my relationship with the client as they have a number of offices including this one. So please also include the office.


Thanks,


Michael


Michael Davis

Senior Recruitment Consultant


London Team - Microsoft Development Division

How pathetic..