IT People - Where do you look for jobs?
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You say that, we've advertised for a 1st level support in Bracknell on totaljobs and in a week had under 20 CVs
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You say that, we've advertised for a 1st level support in Bracknell on totaljobs and in a week had under 20 CVs
Sure - but you still have to pay to attract people... not saying you're not paying the going rate but lots of jobs I see advertised are paying stupidly low for the experience/knowledge required to fill it.
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Dale_d3100 said:You say that, we've advertised for a 1st level support in Bracknell on totaljobs and in a week had under 20 CVs
Quality of applicants is very poor also, when we recruited our last support position we ended up with about 3 that went to interview and even those were scraping the barrel.
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We are offering a good rate for the job involved.
Neil - candidates are either poor or have very poor geography skills. I am not sure how I will interview the bloke from Lithuania or the what the journey time for the person from Devon on his daily commute to Sandhurst would be.
The job is quite low level so I can't see someone relocating halfway across the country for it.
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I spent more than a year hearing nothing back from agencies last year. Applied dozens times through jobserve and never heard back there from a single employer. Put my CV up on monster and had two interviews 3 days later, both of which accepted me.
I know that probably sounds like spam, but there's no other way to phrase it, I couldn't believe the difference. I was almost ****ed off for not trying there before, but you can't really be - was just overjoyed to get a job back. Having said that, since then my (new) firm's been trying to find people via monster and had nothing but spam applications back. Weird.
I know that probably sounds like spam, but there's no other way to phrase it, I couldn't believe the difference. I was almost ****ed off for not trying there before, but you can't really be - was just overjoyed to get a job back. Having said that, since then my (new) firm's been trying to find people via monster and had nothing but spam applications back. Weird.
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dont get me started on agencies.. last one i had the pleasure of dealing with i ended up having an argument with because she wanted to put me forward for a junior position with a major salary cut (she obviously hadnt read/understood my CV). when i refused to be put forward because of those reasons she had a rant at me about it was her decision what jobs were suitable for me. i told her to do one.. lol
all theyre interested in is filling the required amount of candidates for interview and getting their £££.
all theyre interested in is filling the required amount of candidates for interview and getting their £££.
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Recruitment agencies suck big style. They only put forward people that are likely to stay a short while so they can keep on getting more fees. That's when they're not advertising jobs that don't even exist. They also seem to spend time harassing any references you put down to see if they can get more placements from them too.
Webrecruit are better. They forward all matching cvs not just a handful. I think they also do a fixed fee of £500 or something similar.
The IT ones are the worst. Invariably some spotty snot nosed oik that's just come out of school thinks they're an IT specialist because they've read computing magazine once and tries to tell you what you can and can't do.
I think recruitment agencies should be banned for anything other than temporary positions as all they do is get in the way of employers finding the right candidates and candidates finding the right employers. There is an association for them but they do nothing about all the fake job ads and their bad practices.
Webrecruit are better. They forward all matching cvs not just a handful. I think they also do a fixed fee of £500 or something similar.
The IT ones are the worst. Invariably some spotty snot nosed oik that's just come out of school thinks they're an IT specialist because they've read computing magazine once and tries to tell you what you can and can't do.
I think recruitment agencies should be banned for anything other than temporary positions as all they do is get in the way of employers finding the right candidates and candidates finding the right employers. There is an association for them but they do nothing about all the fake job ads and their bad practices.
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not even that to be honest, my OH got offered a temp position by the company. the agency gave her 45 mins to decide/change any plans she had (she had already agreed to dog sit for someone, and was trying to figure out an alternative person) before telling the company she wasnt able to accept without warning.
sounds like it hasnt worked out the recruit they got though as shes been invited back to reapply for the perm (was a temp to perm role).