RE: [Sheflug] Jobs.

["Lewis Ashton" <nospam [at] supanet.com>]

Agencies are predominantly pants. But the ones that are good are really
good. I have a couple that I work with and that I can recommend to people.
My big problem is that they are mostly down south. Although I do know of one
in Sheffield that is not too bad.

My major stipulation when dealing with an agency is that they don't send my
CV out without talking to me about a company first.

Lewis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheflug-bounce@vuw.ac.nz [mailto:nospam [at] vuw.ac.nz]On
> Behalf Of Perry Ismangil
> Sent: 13 February 2001 15:09
> To: Sheflug
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Jobs.
>
>
> On 12 Feb 2001, at 23:44, Barrie Bremner wrote:
>
> > Following Richard's post about ITJobs4.com a little while ago, I went
> > to have a look. Unfortunately every tech position I see advertised
> > requires 6 months (if you're lucky) - 2 years+ experience. I've spoken
> > to a number of agencies and they certainly want folk with experience.
>
> Well, having recently spend 3 months+ looking for a software
> development job in Sheffield and surroundings, I can say agencies
> and online job sites are not the thing I thought it would be.
>
> Agencies and online sites are connected in the way that I've found
> that jobs online are posted by agencies.
>
> Since posting resumes to such agencies via online jobsites, I've
> received many call backs from them, but only *ONE* actually did
> manage to arrange an interview with a Sheffield company. Other
> agencies said that the original job posting was 'inactive', 'filled', etc
> and proceed to offer me jobs in other parts of the country.
>
> One other agency that managed to get me an interview advertised
> on the paper, not on online sites.
>
> In the end I managed to be interviewed by companies advertising
> directly in the paper and companies I sent CV directly, having seen
> vacancies on their website.
>
> So, at this point in time, I am not a good example of what agencies
> are capable of...
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> Perry Ismangil
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