When a job is advertised by a recruitment agency, you'd think it actually exists, right?
"Oh no, there's no vacancies - we just advertised that job so we could get more people signed up. They might be taking staff on next month though."
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 5 Dec 2010, 17:38, 10 replies)

Remarkably honest of the agency to admit this
Most of them would happily lie through their teeth and say the vacancy had been filled five minutes before you called.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Sun 5 Dec 2010, 17:46, closed)

Remarkably honest or remarkably stupid.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 5 Dec 2010, 17:47, closed)

True.
Having worked with too many recruitment agencies to count over the years, my money's on the stupid.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Sun 5 Dec 2010, 17:53, closed)

One such firm once sent me the CV
Of someone who already worked for me. On top of that it wasn't very accurate and he lied about his job responsibilities. He left soon after. The agency didn't seem to see the problem.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Sun 5 Dec 2010, 19:51, closed)

They wouldn't care - They got commission on the employee in question and most likely got commission on their replacement.
(GingerIrishTosser isn't dead yet., Mon 6 Dec 2010, 6:11, closed)

Yeah, I fucking hate that.

(brutal stack Raided the beeves of Apollo on, Sun 5 Dec 2010, 19:20, closed)

I used to work for an IT firm supplying one of the biggest recruitment companies in the UK.
I've never seen an organisation with a higher proportion of dumb fucks and out and out cunts.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Sun 5 Dec 2010, 19:43, closed)

Me and SF both been cought out by a similar one, which happened to be the same guy.
The guy advertised a job ('Web Developer' for me, and some sort of IT Technician for SF).

Turns out for the Web Developer role, it was a very ambitious website (on par with the major Universities in London) for less than £400... as to having a 'job', this was the 'test' to get the job.

Sexface had it worst, they wanted him to do about a month's worth of consultancy for next to nothing.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Sun 5 Dec 2010, 21:06, closed)

if there's a real job
and the agent is less illegitimate than your average, they'll tell you who the end client is
( fluffymitten NAN, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 21:56, closed)

I had an agent spin me shit about a role for a month only to one day phone up...
and find she'd been sacked for not putting CVs on the system and squirelling them into her draw. This was post the Dot com bubble burst when everyone and their mum was a web designer and jobs were being sliced like foreskins before a PCP crazed Rabi, so you can imagine how happy I was.
( @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Mon 6 Dec 2010, 22:31, closed)