I've just spent the afternoon for preparing a job application, which has the
closing date specified as today. Which usually means applications can be
submitted until midnight. But of course, in this case, means that they
actually closed last night...

Doki <mrdoki (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

A friend of my eldest os a recruitment consultant. She told me recently
that there are very few real job on the books of the recruiters. They
advertise non-existent jobs to harvest CVs and to get lists of refereees
that they will use as sales contacts. They pretend to callers that jobs
exist, set impossible deadlines, ask candidates when they are free for
interview then set interviews when the candidate can't attend and they
simply lie through their teeth and say the job was taken.

Nice people, not.

Doki wrote:
Send it in anyway, IME employers don't turn away good applicants when
shortlisting.

In article <1j1zqks.1rklz6cvzai5iN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>, Steve Firth
says...

The recruitment consultant I dealt with at the agency I drove for said
the same. They were given recruitment targets to meet even though there
was sod all work.



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Steve Firth wrote:

That'll be your average bodyshop agency with the morals of a
lobotomised junkyard dog then. Nothing to see here, move along...

Pretty much every EKS I know has a short (or very short) list of
agencies that they're willing to do business with because there are so
many bad ones out there.

And from the perspective of someone who is trying to help in hiring a
contractor or two right at this moment, there are an awful lot of
candidates out there whose CVs appear to match someone else's skill set.

I find it a good indicator as to how many unsolicited calls I get for
decent contracts and the fact that it's recently picked up suggests
that there are jobs out there, but there are also an awful lot of
people chasing said contracts.

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"Steve Walker" <spam-trap (AT) beeb (DOT) net> wrote

It's an online application, so it isn't possible. What winds me up is that
it's the sort of sloppy use of language that would have been jumped on by
any of my uni lecturers.

"Doki" <mrdoki (AT) gmail (DOT) com> writes:

Welcome to the real world . After a few years you'll be amazed that
*anything* works at all.

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'99 Integra Type-R

On 27 June, 21:31, "Doki" <mrd... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Send it in anyway, you never know! Just finished uni?

Timo Geusch wrote:
Ain't that the truth.... (

fishman wrote:
Nah, finished last year, went straight into a job, got made redundant, taken
back on as a temp at the same place, and now work's drying up again.