From: "Roger Burton West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:44:28PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >I realise that currently it is. *Why* do they do it? > > To increase your chances of getting an interview. > They get paid if you get a job. Any job. So they want you to go to as > many interviews as possible, and they'll press you to accept any offer > (an agent who says "hang on for a bit" is a rarity). To get you to as > many interviews as possible, they'll send you to totally unsuitable > ones in the hope that (a) you'll impress the client anyway and (b) > you'll go mad and take the job.
I realise that this is the generally perceived wisdom, and I'm sitting here wishing it was a bit more true than I'm finding it. I've been looking for work since Christmas, and have only got to interview once. I'm being turned down by agencies because my SAP experience is with 4.0 instead of 4.6, though the difference is not massive in my area. There may be a subtle alteration to my CV in the pipeline... Maybe SAP agencies are better than perl ones, though I will NOT be using Progressive after yesterday phoning up in reply to an advert and finding there was no job, and all the agent really wanted was contact names at my past employers. I've made an official complaint to Jobserve about them; is there any agency association I could also complain to? /Robert
