Skip Agencies to help find you a position

If you want to waste your time and energy to enroll, be tested and sit and wait for a call that is never going to come......go to a recruiting agency.

Your time would be best spent searching job boards and only responding to direct employer listings. Unfortunately, when you post your resume so that it can be reviewed by a potential employer, you get calls from agency recruiters all day long. Leave your answering machine on and ignore recruiting agencies! Some sites allow you to exclude ads from agencies......do it!

When recruiters get your resumes, I think they contact your former employers for leads for themselves. There are many companies out there that we have worked for that have not used agencies in the past, and this is a great source of information for the agencies.

So while you haven't found a new job yet, they are contacting your current employer to let them know they have candidates in the event of a vacancy.

Not sure they really ever try to get YOU a position.

How True said: When recruiters get your resumes, I think they contact your former employers for leads for themselves. There are many companies out there that we have worked for that have not used agencies in the past, and this is a great source of information for the agencies.
So while you haven't found a new job yet, they are contacting your current employer to let them know they have candidates in the event of a vacancy.
Not sure they really ever try to get YOU a position.

It's business.

This is one example of many techniques used by most successful agencies to gain new leads and to develop new clients. This style of information gathering can be directly related to RHI's success.

Rich said:
It's business.
This is one example of many techniques used by most successful agencies to gain new leads and to develop new clients. This style of information gathering can be directly related to RHI's success.

This is a disgusting practice. It will put the employee out of his or her current position, while they are still looking for a position and Robert Half is absolutely filled with false jobs. If you look at large job web-sites, such as Monster.com or Careerbuilder.com you can easily see that genuine companies are having their job opportunities copied or reworded by Robert Half in an effort to have you call them or send your resume to them, instead of the actual company. If the company is not listing with Robert Half and you go through Robert Half, you have just lost yourself an interview. Best advise! Stay with companies, lose the recruiters.

The larger firms do this (Particuliarly Robert Half) because they are only charged like $3.50 per ad on the job boards because of their volume. I had the situation Sheryl describes happen on the job boards the same day the employer was on the phone making me an offer.