AndyC_772

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I get the same. I do part-time engineering consultancy, 1 or 2 days a week, and the rest of the time I work for an engineering company near home. The agencies I've spoken to know this - but I regularly get emails asking if I'd like to move overseas for 6 months, take a major cut in pay, and spend the time laying out printed circuit boards.

The short answer, I think, is 'no', they don't read CVs properly or think very hard before sending out these 'opportunities' - they just use a computer to match jobs to skills, and if enough of the boxes are ticked, out goes the email.

SiPie

DO NOT get me started on these ****s.

Spent 6 weeks doing 2 stage interviews to recruit a new member of my team. Offer the job to the best applicant. Turns out she has blatantly lied about her qualifications

Surely the agency (who was supposed to be one of the better ones according to the HR dept.) should have checked this and saved us wasting a whole load of time and now need to start the whole process again

And that's just the most recent **** up I've seen from agencies

******* ***** the lot of them

alcazar

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Thieving scam set up by Lying Labour.
I know of large numbers of people who have registered, then never heard any more.
I know of people who have registered, pestered, and heard nowt.

TBH: don't they get £££ for each person that signs with them?

Money that would be better spent on benefits.....

alcazar

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Dave, I'm on about the many, many private recruitment consultants that have sprung up all over UK Plc since Billy Liar.

Where else do they get their money?

markjmd

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The second wave explosion of recruitment companies during the Blair years (the first being the one that happened when the industry was first deregulated in the late 80s/early 90s) was a result of agencies starting to make massive use of the internet. It had nothing to do with any special legislation that New Labour introduced.

gpssti4

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He wants your contacts so he can send out more dribble to them in the hope that someone matches the job descriptions he's sending out.

mart360

DFMEA - Design Failure Mode Effect Analysis
PFMEA - Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis

Standard automotive fare

It will be oppertunities for Jaguar Landrover, there on a huge recruitment drive at the moment, (millions of pound of investment ) Good money if you want it

For the recruitment company, its a goldmine.

For every "body" they place, they get either a percentage of the hourly rate, or a placement fee, A percentage of the annual salary bill for 1 year.
(up front)
Given the salarys involved are usually around the £30k-£45k mark, scatter gunning the market for prospects is standard fare

Last automotive contractor i dealt with was on €60 per hour with perks!
with approx €20 of that going to the agency!!!

Only trouble with contracting is its not guaranteed - usually max 2 year contracts, often shorter. and your expendible... ofter a couple of hours notice ... Perm contracts are better, but pay way less


Mart

ALi-B

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That takes me back. FMEA, FMEAII, JIT, KAIZEN, Transfer lines, Production flow anaysis, PLC programming, making Puma robot arms do disco dancing.

To think I studied all that at uni and when the time came to get a job (main aim was automotive manufacturing), none of the employers or agencies wanted to know. I'd be lucky to get a reply to hundreds and hundreds of applications. Agencies wasted my time sending me to interviews that had nothing to do with what I was educated to do or more importantly for a role that wasn't even what they had told me (i.e one was a welder for farm plant...it was 'advertised' to me as diagnostics job for the retrofitting of automated ploughing systems..FFS!!! ).

And in the main, the majority of employers wanted was experienced contractors for short term contracts. Without a foothold I ended up doing something that has nothing to do with my qualifications nor what I wanted to do either. And now its been far too long to be able to get back into that industry, as someone of my age now without the correct or current experience hasn't a prayer.

Inccidentally Jaguar was one I regularly applied to - despite their constant adverts in recruitment magazine and upon enquiring they regularly told me they were not employing anyone. Yet next month...there it was....another recruitment advert! I hope Tata have sorted out their HR department now.

However I personally blame the lack of government regulation of both business HR departments and the agencies they often reply upon, as well as Universities not establishing proper direct ties with employers to produce a graduate that an employer wants to employ.

Leslie

I doubt that the author even read your email to them!

Les