Williams Lea is no good

Additional lousy NYC agencies:

Atlantis Partners
Remington
Platinum

Please stay away from any agency that uses Techie Gold.

Maybe it's just YOU they have no work for, Jerry. When every company is passing you by, maybe it's not the companies.

Sorry, buddy. I have a job. But it sure sounds like nobody wants you.

LOL Jerry.

But I think she has a point. If you have tried to get jobs in all those places and nobody is calling you back then I think the problem is with you.

Williams Lea isn't even an employment agency. it's an outsourcing company. People hired for "permanent" jobs are their employees...not the sites they send you to.

I too have met with half the agencies listed by Jerry and have to agree. They bring you in just to add you resume to they files so they can say to employers look how many potential canidates we have! It's carp, and I have a job.

Errr crap not carp, doh!

from new york.....thanks for the list I will not waste my time with these loser agencies. I would add essextemps to the list. thought to try and temp instead still looking I find many jobs at salaries that are unacceptable.

I must agree with Jerry as well I have met with several of the agencies on the list as well. They do get you to come in and waste your time and money, and have no jobs for you I sat down with the <Personal info removed> he was impressed with my recume and skills, at the time I was working for one of the largest firms in NYC. After seating down with 2 or 3 employees I left feeling like they would really have something for me. So I waited....... Oneday I got a call from <Personal info removed>, it was from the same women I had originally received an interview appointment with. She had know idea who she was calling, she proceeded to tell me the same thing she had told me originally that they have a position in your field, I interupted her and explained that I had already been there a week ago and you told me then that you had a position. She was shocked that they made such a mistake, she cleans it up by stating to me "Oh nothing has come in yet". I was like but you just told me that you had a position for me. What if I had never spoke them, they would of had me come in and never had a available postion.

Jerrty Mahoney said: Williams Lea is an incompetent agency that has no work for word processors. Don't waste your time registering with them.

The are a very large co. and they could not care less who you are and what you are about. They fill the spot with anyone they can get.

Terrence Smith said: LOL Jerry.
But I think she has a point. If you have tried to get jobs in all those places and nobody is calling you back then I think the problem is with you.

No at all true...maybe Jerry is a little older, maybe he is disabled and no one wants to hire someone with special accomodation needs.

For example, my best friend in the universe has been looking for over 9 mos, but because he is 55 and looks 55 even when get excited - one look at his resume sends them scurrying to get away (he has very long tenure at previous jobs). Any fool can look at a resume and figure out your approximate age.

Ive had no problem finding jobs. In fact, in the last years I've doubled my salary, and I'm going to get a nother 20-30% increase this month as I find another job with a higher salary. You probably have to work on your social skills, cause technical skills are easy to learn

Anonymous in San Francisco, California said: Williams Lea isn't even an employment agency. it's an outsourcing company. People hired for "permanent" jobs are their employees...not the sites they send you to.

True they are an outsourcing company, but they operate the same as temporary agencies. If Williams Lea loses a contract, what do you think they do with their employees if they have no other assignments to place them into? They do not have their employees sitting around without an assigned site.

And by the way you jerks, I have a solid position and I would not put anyone down who is trying to find work. You all need to be thankful you have jobs! We are all a second from the employment line!!!

Jerrty Mahoney in Bronx, New York said: Williams Lea is an incompetent agency that has no work for word processors. Don't waste your time registering with them.

I worked for them for 3 months in Chicago and have to say it was hell. The managers are extremely abusive to employees. Not a day went by that I did not cringe over something said to one of my co-workers. I still deeply regret (to the point of feeling ashamed of myself) that I did not quit on my first day.

I urge anyone to think twice about coming to work for this company.

I found out that Williams-Lea is "200 years old" and a company that is based in the United Kingdom. I suspect "Jillian," which is a British name, works for them. I found that the screener, who is not even a secretary let alone a recruiter, was an ignorant, rude woman in Washington, DC. She knew nothing about the legal recruiting market, but was more intent on throwing her weight around in her ignorant fashion than in communication. Here in Washington, where I held a security clearance as a Department of Defense employee for years, she seemed intent on scaring with me drug screens and their detailed "background check" than holding a true conversation where she would not have made as much of a fool out of herself as she appeared to be doing. No, I am not scared of Williams-Lea's background check, but I am offended by ignorance and this woman was the very heart and soul of ignorance. First of all, in the legal market, outsourcing or not, a conflict of interest check is the first order of business. A law firm can be sued by clients unless they engage in a due dilligence process known as a "conflicts check," whereby a candidate is screened for conflicts of interest in prior employment. For example, if you worked for a law firm or a company that was in a lawsuit against another company, even if the employee is not an attorney, the firm is in violation of conflict of interest rules if they hire an employee from opposing counsel's firm or from the client's opponent's corporation. So, if you worked for AOL's legal department or outside counsel, and they were involved in a lawsuit against Google, you may not be employed by a law firm that represents Google or by Google's in-house general counsel.

This person did not know this information about the legal recruiting market and rather than referring my question to a recruiter as to the conflicts check, she THREATENED ME BY SUGGESTING I SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR THE POSITION IF I HAD A VALID RECRUITING QUESTION.

Williams-Lea should not be engaged in recruiting U.S. citizens in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, because company personnel locally are not conversant with U.S. laws and ethical rules for the legal market. Also, with a foreign corporation, the profits do not remain in our country but are sent back to the home country rather than circulated in our United States economy. I do not believe in enriching the British empire, a long-standing perpetrator of human rights abuses internationally, and for the information of you conservatives, is now pulling out of UN forces in Iraq. Let them exploit some other former colony. We in the United States of America are no longer British colonies. We settled that one more than 200 years ago. In my boss's brother's town they put it on their state flag: "Sic semper tyrannis!" Go to the devil with your lousy class system, your inept national health insurance and your ridiculous royal family, you cowards, creeps, and pompous asses.

British companies are terrible places to work. The British Embassy is probably the worst place to work in Washington. These upper-class snits and snobs all treat everyone who is not a member of the Royal Family as if they are all scum, particularly Americans. I knew someone a few years back whose professional employment with the Crown was voluntarily terminated in favor of U.S. employment who considered the day of departure as the happiest day of that person's life.

Those of Irish descent, listen up: the Brits are still doing it to Irish Catholics in Belfast today as they have done for hundreds of years. One need not be Irish to appreciate this factoid of British history.

British companies also are bad corporate citizens. Look at British Petroleum. They can call themselves "BP" for short and pay off Americans but the fact remains that they pollute our wilderness and steal profits by irresponsibly doing business.

The British government, British corporations, and the rest of the British Empire should leave our shores for good and spend their time dodging their own value-added taxes, reading their own boring contemporary authors and generally pretending the Irish and Welsh poets are really theirs. Effete, culturally bankrupt, and morally inferior, they think they have rediscovered another old colony. If we keep taking inferior employment from these scoundrels, we are no better than the Tories who refused to back the American Revolution.

Anybody from a country with an intelligence service that recruits a mole so successful he ended up "a Hero of the Soviet Union," looking like the image of George Burns with coke-bottle glasses on a stamp issued by the USSR Postal Service in the seventies, i.e., "Kim" Philby, should be ashamed of themselves for intimating that good, solid Americans might somehow fail to pass their drug screen and background check with a British company. British corporations are pompous, morally, culturally, and politically bankrupt subjects of a ridiculous royal personage. They are idiotic, backward and of no consequence in world affairs. As an American, I echo the words of my political ancestors whose White House was unceremoniously burned down in the War of 1812, by a British Empire, intent on regaining her lost colonies: "Go home, and stay home. This is not your home. Take your ill-gotten gains and go home." You just wait until we complete our investigation of BAE Systems for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the United States. BAE Systems' stock went down by 7 percent in just one day when that investigation was announced in early June. Its ownership is reportedly 33 percent held by the British government, referred to as "The Crown." Sounds like some party favor you get from Burger King? You bet it does. Ridiculous titles, pompous, obsolete, idiotic government regulation, interference and bankrupting political decisionmaking. Same old, same old, George or Liz, whatever. Hundreds of years do not a decent corporation or government make.

We will take your proverbial tea and dump it in Boston Harbor. We will take your precious, stupid companies and bar them from doing business with the U.S. Department of Defense. We will take your faulty intelligence, provided, no doubt, by some Middle Eastern counterpart of the miraculous "Kim" Philby and just say, "enough," from now on. Go home. Leave Americans alone. See here, there are enough inept American temporary agencies, outsourcing firms, and various other assorted rogues without importing them from England, for God's sake. We have enough stupid home-grown blonde papparazzi bait without getting big-nosed Brits for our cameras. We don't need you. So get a cup of tea, relax, and sit by the telly and go hire some spike-haired adolescent on the dole back home and outsource him to BAE as a special liaison to some Middle Eastern government.

Williams-Lea basically advertises the same four jobs over and over and over again on various job sites. Perhaps they are trolling for sensitive information from applicants for some purpose other than the stated one. British confidentiality rules differ from ours. Why don't they just give up and go home and see what miracles their wonderful economy provides? Why don't they just do something a lot easier, like outsourcing Indian slaves from the old Empire to IT companies or whatever and leave us alone? Perhaps they will be able to successfully resurrect the British Raj, but they will never, ever take the United States of America and place it as a jewel in the crown of that absurd woman whose family hails from Germany they call their "queen," as if their country were a giant beehive or perhaps a gay bordello. Williams-Lea, a corporation with the face of an American and the body of a 200 year old British ghost, the Empire.

Jillian in Columbus, Ohio said: Sorry, buddy. I have a job. But it sure sounds like nobody wants you.

Jillian,

Do you work for Williams-Lea?

Roddy rukus in New York, New York said: I must agree with Jerry as well I have met with several of the agencies on the list as well. They do get you to come in and waste your time and money, and have no jobs for you I sat down with the <Personal info removed> he was impressed with my recume and skills, at the time I was working for one of the largest firms in NYC. After seating down with 2 or 3 employees I left feeling like they would really have something for me. So I waited....... Oneday I got a call from <Personal info removed>, it was from the same women I had originally received an interview appointment with. She had know idea who she was calling, she proceeded to tell me the same thing she had told me originally that they have a position in your field, I interupted her and explained that I had already been there a week ago and you told me then that you had a position. She was shocked that they made such a mistake, she cleans it up by stating to me "Oh nothing has come in yet". I was like but you just told me that you had a position for me. What if I had never spoke them, they would of had me come in and never had a available postion.

I hope you did spell check on your resume - could explain why <Personal info removed> strung you along. No one will tell you to your face you don't have a chance at employment. They'll entertain you until you get out the door and then forget about you if your verbal skills are lacking. No insult intended here - but your grammar is in need of work...at least this posting.