Who wants to start naming names?

It's time to be at war with these staffing agencies and companies that keep wasting job seekers time with their antics. Let's fulfill these boards up because we have a voice and it needs to be heard through searches of Google, Bing, and Yahoo. It's time to wake America up.

Months ago, I started a discussion telling my peers to avoid Essex Temporary Services. I will now try to boost the topic back up the forum before someone else become victims.

Let's start blacklisting these HR reps RIGHT NOW! The unemployment rate in this country is at an all time high. Congress can't keep extending unemployment benefits...they need to be on these companies behinds. WE NEED OUR BAILOUT.

Come on...name names of people posting these fake job postings and using fake company names to play with our minds.

I think the ones that do it the most in my area are:

Office Team / Robert Half
Staffing Now

Robert Half/Office Team
Aerotek
Ajilon

I'm just as frustrated with companies who never contact qualified applicants and continue to post the same positions over and over. In my area, these include Covidien, Crocs, Raytheon, Constant Contact. Do you keep applying and hope someone eventually actually reads a resume?

I used to work in the building of NorthShore Staffing, and before I started my last job I registered with them. This was when the economy was not in a recession. At the end of the interview she told me that she will be getting something in my salary range next week and to follow up with her then. How do you know what you will get in next week? Of course that was a lie, as she never called me for a single thing not even for a short term temp assignment.

When I started working in the building I saw everyday they alwasy had someone waiting for the recruiter. Some days when I got to the office before 8am they had people waiting in the lobby for North Shore Staffing to open. As the economy turned into a recession they had people still coming in, and I thought to myself how on earth can they have jobs for people on a daily basis. I do see them post ads and the wording is identical, which tells me that they have a fake ad running. Seeing this I will not register with them, could not even help in better times, certainly will not help now. Just come in test and they never call you back, even when you call them, you go straight to voice mail. If I told them hey don't put me in voice mail, I have a job order that I need filled ASAP, I bet that when the operator transfers me someone will pick up that phone. If they know that one is busy they will find someone to take that job order.

DollyParton83 in Hackensack,NJ, New Jersey said: It's time to be at war with these staffing agencies and companies that keep wasting job seekers time with their antics. Let's fulfill these boards up because we have a voice and it needs to be heard through searches of Google, Bing, and Yahoo. It's time to wake America up.

Months ago, I started a discussion telling my peers to avoid Essex Temporary Services. I will now try to boost the topic back up the forum before someone else become victims.

Let's start blacklisting these HR reps RIGHT NOW! The unemployment rate in this country is at an all time high. Congress can't keep extending unemployment benefits...they need to be on these companies behinds. WE NEED OUR BAILOUT.

Come on...name names of people posting these fake job postings and using fake company names to play with our minds.

This is good in theory, but these companies do things like this because no one is enforcing laws against them. These companies know they can get away with it.

People get blacklisted all the time and I do agree it is time for the companies to be blacklisted. But until laws are enforced against this, these companies can and will do as they please.

I am sick of it myself and I want a crackdown on these unprofessional fools that are in charge of hiring.

Kforce and Robert Half. Extremely unprofessional.

These agencies also know that they can offer you a much lower wage on the temp side then report you to unemployment if you refuse saying you refused work.
Having to go on a 2-4 hour interview and meet with 4 people on the clients side for a 15 an hour TEMP job is something a job that would have paid 35 an hour a few years ago

I can agree with you on KForce. They contacted me once about a long term temp assignment, actually went on the interview for that job, and while setting up the interview we played phone tag a few times, but he always picked up the phone or called me back shortly after, not when I try to call I always get his voice mail, and I don't leave messages. I call from a career center, so he really doesn't know by the caller ID who I am. If anything it would show up like an employer is trying to call him, which is why I call from there vs my phone just to see if he would pickup. When they have nothing for you they don't even want to talk to you even if they have to tell you "no, I don't have anything for you today". Just trying to keep him fresh for when a new temp job does come in, I may have a shot at it.

Agencies like Robert Half, Appleone, and Kforce needs to be put out of business.

There also needs to be some mandates passed concerning checking credit history.

DollyParton83 in Hackensack,NJ, New Jersey said: There also needs to be some mandates passed concerning checking credit history.

Tully's, Elevee, Teavana, In n Out...all these places interviewed me and used Ageism on me. Apple One Staffing here in Northridge, CA, all talk, NO action...said they had TONS of Jobs for me w/my experience (I have also done Office Work) and my phone never rang despite me calling to check back every few days. I kept on getting a major run-around.

Recruiter Source...just a portal to gain info so you can be spammed.

I agree about the credit....it looks as though I'm having an Offer falling through because I don't use credit cards, and all of my old debt is over, 5-10 years old so so although I have a Score, I don't have History according to Trans Union, the agency this potential Company uses for Background Checks. I am *extremely* upset...extremely but there's nothing I can do.

So they are telling you that you are a "bad risk" because you pay with cash?? Hey I would rather be able to pay for what I need and can afford with cash than charge things and fall in the hole because I was living beyond my means. What are they looking for anything just not to hire? You have the skills, did not file for bankruptcy you should be good. Does this job involve handling cash that they are worried about you do not have a score? To get a credit score go to the dollar store and charge a dollar purchase and then pay it off at the end of the month. Do little purchases like this and over a year you should have a great score...hey you can pay that $1 balance every month. Better than charging hundreds and only pay the minimum each month.

Kim in Chicago, Illinois said: So they are telling you that you are a "bad risk" because you pay with cash?? Hey I would rather be able to pay for what I need and can afford with cash than charge things and fall in the hole because I was living beyond my means. What are they looking for anything just not to hire? You have the skills, did not file for bankruptcy you should be good. Does this job involve handling cash that they are worried about you do not have a score? To get a credit score go to the dollar store and charge a dollar purchase and then pay it off at the end of the month. Do little purchases like this and over a year you should have a great score...hey you can pay that $1 balance every month. Better than charging hundreds and only pay the minimum each month.

The Job does involve handling cash; so maybe that's why, who knows.

DollyParton83 in Hackensack,NJ, New Jersey said: It's time to be at war with these staffing agencies and companies that keep wasting job seekers time with their antics. Let's fulfill these boards up because we have a voice and it needs to be heard through searches of Google, Bing, and Yahoo. It's time to wake America up.

Months ago, I started a discussion telling my peers to avoid Essex Temporary Services. I will now try to boost the topic back up the forum before someone else become victims.

Let's start blacklisting these HR reps RIGHT NOW! The unemployment rate in this country is at an all time high. Congress can't keep extending unemployment benefits...they need to be on these companies behinds. WE NEED OUR BAILOUT.

Come on...name names of people posting these fake job postings and using fake company names to play with our minds.

ASAP in Orlando, FL.
Adecco in Orlando

Have had friends/family w/good luck w/RObert Half, but down here they were useless....

Robert Half

When they called me they told me that they had jobs for me. I go in an do the paperwork and testing in a room with 5 people! The receptionist came in every so often to set another one up and with the people going in and out there were a lot of distractions. The day I went was right after a big snow that we had, so I didn't think many would be in on a day like that, boy was I wrong. I heard that only 2 people cancelled due to the snow. They told me if I would lower my expectations, then they would have more opportunites for me. So they can make bigger profits. I didn't lower my minimum that I already stated, as I already have lowered my minimum considerably to accept temp work. You guessed it not a single assignment. I heard that they pull people from assignments at short notice. Probably to put someone else there so they cannot collect UE benefits from Robert Half if they have been on previous assignments. If you get one assignment they probably will give you priority in the next assignment to keep you going. You refuse that $8.00 assignment and your beneifts are cut for refusing work. It probably is less, but it most likely is "suitable work" and UE will side with the employer.

AVOID THE LASALLE NETWORK!!! www.thelasallenetwork.com Yelp has a lot of complaints on them www.yelp.com/biz/the-lasalle-network-chicago I also had a bad experience with them wasting several hours of my time.

Their recruiters have no basic understanding of the industries that they recruit for. She could not answer basic questions about the company or the position that I was supposedly interviewing with her for. At this point, I'm not sure if it actually exists because I was told they passed on my resume. I was 200% qualified. Whatever. She also told me that personality type is more important to her clients than knowledge and experience. Wow. Just wow.

Michael Page and Robert Half aren't much better.

casey45 in Alabama said: Apple One is really bad.

I agree.

The staffing agencies have more applicants than there are jobs. Remember the employer is paying both you and the agency for full or temp staffing. In a tight economy most delay making decisions.

The advantage to the temp is that when the company no longer requires the temp they can stop the assignment and there are no issues such as unemployment, benefits, severance etc...

The best way to get a job now is to use the internet (indeed.com) and linkedin.com. to develop networking. Spend Mon - Thurs on the job search 4-6 hours. More than that and you will burn out. Take Fridays off as the chance of a reply are zero. Divide the day between target company search and open search internet. Try to find network connections to gain the in. Also develop your brand and cover letter prior to hitting the street. "Known yourself". Also try the informational interview appraoch.

Back in the days before the internet people would just walk into an agency fill out an application take a typing test and they started looking for jobs that had, made phone calls to set up interviews, you went, and chances of getting hired were much greater. Now they call people in take not only the typing test, but Word, Excel, Powerpoint and sometimes stupid tests like spelling and math (without the calculator). Then they tell you they will call when something comes in that you are a good match for. I have never been contacted my most, not even for a short-term temporary assignment. Gee I must of done that bad on my tests and don't have enough experience to do any of the jobs. Or is it that my salary requirements are just a tad above what they want to pay after they consider their fees. They should only run an ad IF they get an order in that has a special software skill or other rare training is needed. Not just for a general office data entry job that hundreds will apply for. Then people would put more faith in staffing firms. They used to place quite a few of my former co workers, now that is not the case.

Hi Joanna
Thank you for your comment. I was starting to believe that I am the only person in the world that can't find a job. I am terribly depressed and feel so worthless. And here it is, yet another Sunday and I am searching the internet for a job. I was laid off in December of 2008 and have registered with countless staffing agencies and landed only one assignment in all this time that lasted only one month. I have a solid work history with eleven years of service as an admin and still nothing.
I only register with these agencies when I see an actual ad posted for openings they say they have.
I go through all the paperwork, testing and interviewing and nothing. They say they will get in touch if something comes up.
So, my question is, who got the job or jobs they posted the ads for? I'm starting to believe there were no jobs and they are just
stockpiling candidates? But what do they gain by doing that?
I have also noticed that now that I have been out of work for over a year I am getting fewer and fewer responses.
When I was filling out paperwork at the last agency I went to I was sitting in front of the receptionist's desk and the first question she asked callers was "have you worked in the past year?"
Plus, the interviewer told me that many of their clients won't consider someone who has been out of work for over a year.
So how are those of us laid off due to the recession supposed to get back to work? I am a single mom with no other source of income and my unemployment benefits are running out.

Names of just a few bogus agencies in my area:
NES Staffing, Adecco, JobPro, Staffmark, PDS Tech, Robert Half, Kelly Career Network, Lauren Staffing, Horizon Staffing Services

Is anyone here having problems with the staffing agencies in New York?

searching in Des Plaines, Illinois said: AVOID THE LASALLE NETWORK!!! www.thelasallenetwork.com Yelp has a lot of complaints on them www.yelp.com/biz/the-lasalle-network-chicago I also had a bad experience with them wasting several hours of my time.

Their recruiters have no basic understanding of the industries that they recruit for. She could not answer basic questions about the company or the position that I was supposedly interviewing with her for. At this point, I'm not sure if it actually exists because I was told they passed on my resume. I was 200% qualified. Whatever. She also told me that personality type is more important to her clients than knowledge and experience. Wow. Just wow.

Michael Page and Robert Half aren't much better.

It is so nice to finally vent about LaSalle Network! After testing and interviewing me for 2 hours, the recruiter told me he picked me, along with 4 other people, out of a stack of 800 resumes to interview with an educational company from Canada opening up an office in Schaumburg. He said he picked me because of my skills and my longevity at all of the companies I have worked for over the past 30 years. He said I would hear from him within a couple of days. After calling him every week for about 6 weeks to find out when I would be interviewed, he told me not to bother him again, he will contact me when he knows something. That was a year ago. Never heard from him.

Also, Robert Half/Office Team told me I had tested in the 95 percentile range on skills. Even with my excellent skills, I have never been able to get any client interviews through them. I picked them because they advertise their specialty is placing 50+ workers.

Times certainly have changed. Over the course of my career, I have worked 3 temp positions whereby the employer hired me permanently because they were so happy with my work ethic. Now I can't even get an interview for a temp position.

All staffing firms are the same, none of them has anything other than when they need someone for a special project. I once received a call for a project on a Sunday for packing books after a trade show, where they need many people.

If you go to Robert Half expect to be there most of an afternoon. They give you tests with their testing system and you are not in the roon alone. The staff is coming in and out as they have called tons of people the same day to test.

DollyParton83 in Hackensack,NJ, New Jersey said: It's time to be at war with these staffing agencies and companies that keep wasting job seekers time with their antics. Let's fulfill these boards up because we have a voice and it needs to be heard through searches of Google, Bing, and Yahoo. It's time to wake America up.

Months ago, I started a discussion telling my peers to avoid Essex Temporary Services. I will now try to boost the topic back up the forum before someone else become victims.

Let's start blacklisting these HR reps RIGHT NOW! The unemployment rate in this country is at an all time high. Congress can't keep extending unemployment benefits...they need to be on these companies behinds. WE NEED OUR BAILOUT.

Come on...name names of people posting these fake job postings and using fake company names to play with our minds.

Employment Agencies are much different now than they were 20-25 years ago...they are now horrible. You usually apply online and that way it's very impersonal and they can hire a local-yocal with a Master's Degree (because they can't find any other job...I know this to be true) to review the online resumes. They accept resumes from "fake" job ads so that they can impress their clientele. "Please book your employment needs through our agency as we have an unlimited number of resources for you to choose from..." I'm sure that's the tactic of many agencies.

Employment agencies sure are a night and day difference. For those of you that have never worked with one, let me tell you that they call you up and tell you that they are very impressed with your resume and want to meet you to discuss opportunites that they have that would fit your background and skills, then when you arrive they put you in front of a computer and tell you that you have to take a test of about 30 questions on MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, a typing speed test sometimes as long as 5 minutes, and when you are done with that they talk with you about your past jobs for about 15 mins and tell you that they just has a job, but it was filled yesterday, I just learned that the candidate accepted the offer, I didn't want to say that yesterday just in case the offer was not accepted. Today I think that 99.9% of the time and offer is extended it is accepted or counter offered. Just look at the number of people who are on long term unemployment benefits (over 6 months) and it is growing. Take a look at any week you want even going back to the last recession, we NEVER had over 5 million people out of work that long. I have looked at the reports from a few months ago and they were lower then. Agencies don't have the jobs, and when they do they have stiff competition for each and every one!

www.ows.doleta.gov/unemploy/claims_arch.asp

Julie Ann in Park Ridge, Illinois said: Employment agencies sure are a night and day difference. For those of you that have never worked with one, let me tell you that they call you up and tell you that they are very impressed with your resume and want to meet you to discuss opportunites that they have that would fit your background and skills, then when you arrive they put you in front of a computer and tell you that you have to take a test of about 30 questions on MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, a typing speed test sometimes as long as 5 minutes, and when you are done with that they talk with you about your past jobs for about 15 mins and tell you that they just has a job, but it was filled yesterday, I just learned that the candidate accepted the offer, I didn't want to say that yesterday just in case the offer was not accepted. Today I think that 99.9% of the time and offer is extended it is accepted or counter offered. Just look at the number of people who are on long term unemployment benefits (over 6 months) and it is growing. Take a look at any week you want even going back to the last recession, we NEVER had over 5 million people out of work that long. I have looked at the reports from a few months ago and they were lower then. Agencies don't have the jobs, and when they do they have stiff competition for each and every one!

www.ows.doleta.gov/unemploy/claims_arch.asp

Thanks for your comment Julie Ann. It is a comfort to know that I am not the only one getting the runaround from these staffing agencies. I have eleven years of experience as an admin with an excellent employment record and references and have been out of work due to layoff since Dec 2008 with only one temp assignment from all of them.
It keeps getting worse, IMO, not better. Now they are weeding you out if you have been out of work for more than a year.
So how are we supposed to get off of unemployment and back to work?
I sure hope they extend our unemployment again!!!!!

With the high volumne of resumes that recruiters receive they can be picky. They seem to always look for a reason to reject people and that is something that they use. So as the amount of people unemployed grows that probably will become a bigger issue down the road. Even when the economy was good there were still people who were out for more than a year for other reasons such as being a full time mother, and they jumped into the workforce with old outdated skills, but back then employers were much more willing to train people, and I have worked with some of them and they turned out to be excellent workers and learned quickly. Now they expect the world from people and if you are not a self starter they do not want to talk to you. It is sad. It is going to take several years before unemployment gets anywhere near levels they were pre 2008.

how about actually being told "the company has hired you for the job, we'll let you know when the start date is", and not hear from them a few days later. so then you call them to see if they found out your "start date", then they say, "oh we still haven't heard from them yet", and have this go back and forth for almost month until they tell you, "we'll call you to let you know when"? thats what happened to me back in October of 2006 from a staffing agency, dont remember the name though. And I never got that call to let me know of any "start date", mind you.

funny thing is, I usually had good luck with agencies. The last job I had was through Devon & Devon Staffing in 2008. Yep, no job, 2 years strong!

F@$K YOOOU RECESSION!! lol =)

Take a look at jobs posted online with the major boards what do you see? Office Team, Robert Half, Staffing Now, Aijion etc. They post the same ads. When you come to the office you are sitting in waiting room with 3 or 4 others. That is just when you are there, imagine that this goes on every day. What does that tell you? That is all they do all day is talk to people. What did you make at xyz company? Why did you leave? What is your ideal job? The stories are all the same? You call them and ask if anything new came in and the reply is "no". I will call one of my agencies today and I will ask her, "Do you ever have any jobs"? I have registered with her last summer and think that her office is BS. I don't plan on wasting my dimes calling her after this one, the answer will always be the same.

I can only comment on Robert Half since that is the only company listed I have had experience with. The majority of these job postings are speculation. The account managers at Robert Half are expected to have X amount of job postings whether or not they actually have the jobs. The recruiters are expected to meet an steep interview quota which leaves them absolutely no room to manage long term, meaningful business relationships. The company is so consumed by its processes and so-called best practices that the human element has completey disappeared from its business. I know you may get frustrated with the recruiters but please understand that these people are treated horribly, manipulated, and managed through bullying and intimidation. If you want to avoid getting frustrated, don't waste your time with this company. If they do post a real job, you will most likely find it posted by the company looking for new talent too.

I don't understand why management requires them to go through such a fake process. If they were honest and told you that they did not have anything, then maybe more people would have trust in them. All the time and effort in interviewing candidates does not bring income to them...the thing that any business needs to survive.

Kim - I'll do my best to accurately share what I personally witnessed at Robert Half. First of all, they look at candidates as lead sources. You will often hear them ask where you have been so that they do not jeopardize any of your opportunities. In reality, they are writing down the company names, previous managers, co-workers, etc. so that they can start calling them the minute you walk out of the office. Also, the middle management at Robert Half spends the majority of their day reviewing activity reports so that they can figure out who to put in their crosshairs for the day/week/month. This is great motivation to keep interviewing people whether or not you believe you can ever work with them. Robert Half has achieved a whopping 1.5% market share in a $200 Billion industry. Don't forget this stellar perfomance is from a company that almost invented the staffing industry over 60 years ago.

Joanna in Chicago, Illinois said: Back in the days before the internet people would just walk into an agency fill out an application take a typing test and they started looking for jobs that had, made phone calls to set up interviews, you went, and chances of getting hired were much greater. Now they call people in take not only the typing test, but Word, Excel, Powerpoint and sometimes stupid tests like spelling and math (without the calculator). Then they tell you they will call when something comes in that you are a good match for. I have never been contacted my most, not even for a short-term temporary assignment. Gee I must of done that bad on my tests and don't have enough experience to do any of the jobs. Or is it that my salary requirements are just a tad above what they want to pay after they consider their fees. They should only run an ad IF they get an order in that has a special software skill or other rare training is needed. Not just for a general office data entry job that hundreds will apply for. Then people would put more faith in staffing firms. They used to place quite a few of my former co workers, now that is not the case.

Joanna: I agree with you a hundred percent. I didn't hear about staffing agencies until thirty years ago. I would say up to about the early 90's, you can just make an appointment and go right in and register. Nowadays they want to see your resume first. They don't want to bring you in unless that have a position for you in which you would be "the right fit". They've literally become the Human Resources Department for these places.

Whenever they ask what your salary requirements are, I would always ask them how much the job is paying first. Sometimes they'll tell you: sometimes they won't. I know why they ask for salary requirements. Because they only want to pay what they can afford to pay you, and they weed out people who are asking for too much money.

When I was last out of work from July to October last year, I contacted just a few staffing agencies. But I let them know right up front that I am on Social Security Disability, that I can only work part-time, and I can't make more than a certain amount each month in order to keep my benefts. Some of them don't even get any part-time jobs in: they mainly get full-time. In this case, I just tell them that I'm better off going directly to the companies instead.

Last Friday (April 16), I had a brief interview at Today's Office Professionals in downtown Philadelphia, but the position they had just didn't suit me. Otherwise, most of theese agencies in the high-level level and/or are very specialized. There's very few of them that take all skills.

I know that you're frustrated with staffing agencies, but they have to please the clients. After all, the client is paying for their services, and they want the "right fit". And that's the bottom line. These companies probably pay a hefty fee to these agencies to get the people that they want.

Next time staffing agencies ask where you have been and contact numbers, give them some numbers like the Better Business Bureau or Fraud Hotline. See how much they will network their way in with them!

Discusted Candidate in Chicago, Illinois said: Next time staffing agencies ask where you have been and contact numbers, give them some numbers like the Better Business Bureau or Fraud Hotline. See how much they will network their way in with them!

I know how you feel about that. The reason that staffing agencies ask where you've applied to previously is because they don't want to send you to a company that you've already applied to or even interviewed with.

Another thing this. When you fill out your employment history, they will ask whether or not the company has used a staffing agency. Personally, I think they do this so they can generate new business.

If you ever gave them the number to the Better Business Bureau and the Fraud Hotline, they probably would call there to see if they need any help.

I'm once again naming another staffing agency, Express Personnel, as another agency that is on my personal DO-NOT-CALL list.

Today (Monday, April 26), I saw a job that they posted on this website for making outbound calls. The ad said it would last two weeks, but when I called them, the guy that I spoke with said that it only last for two days (Wednesday, April 28 and Thursday, April 29). He also found my name in the system from a few years ago about a negative experience. I told him that I don't want to do business with them again and I hung up on him.

Staffing agencies should not keep applications on file for several years. Six months or one year is enough. And besides, it wouldn't have been worth my time anyway. I told him that I need something that's a little bit longer. Their loss is somebody else's gain.

Jojae: Is that staffing agency you went to living in the Twilight Zone or something? Since you're a single mother, are they still living in the days of June Cleaver?

Don't these agencies realize that we are in a recession? Millions of people in this country are out of work. Some of them have been out for about a year. And yet this agency won't take anybody unless they've worked for a year?

Come on now; that's rediculous. It's not your fault that you've been out of work. It's not your fault that you lost your last jobs because the company either went out of business, downsized, or started shipping their jobs overseas. Or that you have children to take care of, and you probably can't afford child care. You may have went back to school for a whole year to get your skills upgraded. You probably were sick and had to have surgery. You probably had personal and family matters to take care of.

It's really none of their business. They should consider you if you've had previous experience in what they want; regardless whether or not you've worked for a whole year. I mean, things do happen. If I had went to that agency, I would have told them that it was none of their business.

Nanlisa: Thanks for your comment. I appreciate it very much. I feel so alone and worthless these days. Yes, what I said is the absolute truth. The receptionist's first question for callers after "Hello" was "Have you worked in the past year?"
Plus, the interviewer made the statement that many of their clients won't consider anyone out of work for a year. I just sat there and looked at her thinking "where have you been this past year, in a bubble?" They really act as if they don't know about the recession. It's infuriating. After the interview and all that paperwork and testing they told me to call the next day. I did so and they said they didn't have anything at the moment and I should email them every few days to check in. I actually cried since I went to them in response to an actual job posting they had put out. I've been emailing them twice a week for over a month and nothing.
I'm originally from Bucks County, PA. I miss it down there!

Jojae: I didn't know that you're originally from Bucks County. How about that? I am a Delaware County native (I was born in Darby and raised in Folcroft).

I'm sorry to hear that that agency made you upset. I'm just curious. Which agency told you that you had to work for a year before they consider you? Did you speak up and let them know about this? Don't let them walk all over you. The next time you talk to them, or even email them, tell them how upset you were over this. Ask to speak to the agency manager. Let him or her know how poorly you were treated. And really give it to them. Who are they to judge? Are any of those recruiters there single parents themselves? Were they too out of work at one time? Staffing agency recruiters should get down on their knees and thank God that they have a job to come to every day; when millions of people in this country, incuding myself, don't.

Let me know how you did. I hope you find something soon.

Office Team has been practically all over the Internet with job openings.

Staffing Now, Source Personnel, Pathfinders, and TRC Staffing Services have all run ads for the same job: which is recruiting doctors for teleconferences. I have had previous experience in recruiting doctors for focus group discussions and telephphone interviewers. Their client also wants a college degree, which I don't have.

I called Staffing Now and Pathfinders, and they wall want to see a resume first. Source Personnel doesn't do any hiring for part-time (which is what I'm looking for).

Office Team, Careers USA, and Express Personnel also keep running ads for recruiting local business people to participate in a charity fundraiser. I can't believe that there are two or more staffing agencis advertising and recruiting for the same job.

Jojae: I meant to ask you this. Have you ever applied directly to the companies instead of going through an agency? Try going directly to the companies instead of the staffing agencies, and see what happens.

It's OK to be depressed because you're out of work, but you're not worthless. There's a job out there for you, Just hang in there. Don't even waste your time with BS agencies. Try going directly to the companies and see what happens.

Good luck to you.

DollyParton83 in Hackensack,NJ, New Jersey said: Is anyone here having problems with the staffing agencies in New York?

believe it or not there is a reputable one in White Plains, NY called Classic Westchester. I've always turned to them for temp to perm positions. They are prompt in returning calls and truly do their best to comply with client wishes. Currently, I am not using their services as I am trying to freelance. But would call them if need be.

DollyParton83 in Hackensack,NJ, New Jersey said: It's time to be at war with these staffing agencies and companies that keep wasting job seekers time with their antics. Let's fulfill these boards up because we have a voice and it needs to be heard through searches of Google, Bing, and Yahoo. It's time to wake America up.

Months ago, I started a discussion telling my peers to avoid Essex Temporary Services. I will now try to boost the topic back up the forum before someone else become victims.

Let's start blacklisting these HR reps RIGHT NOW! The unemployment rate in this country is at an all time high. Congress can't keep extending unemployment benefits...they need to be on these companies behinds. WE NEED OUR BAILOUT.

Come on...name names of people posting these fake job postings and using fake company names to play with our minds.

CyberCoders; MRI Recruiters - all of them; The Ladders; Don't use any of these agencies. They are either scam jobs or no one follow-ups with you - EVER!!

The other thing is, many of these recruiters and staffing agencies have NO IDEA
what their clients want. One firm I went to (Express Personnel) only deals in $10 or less per hour jobs. They have no idea (and aren't creative enough) to advise people on executive positions or even places to refer you.

Robert Half starts out at $8 and hour and told me if I lower my expectations my chances of getting assignments would be greater. She should have stated that her commision would be greater. I asked her if she was on commission and she said NO. Even lied about that! Well the mimimum wage that I would accept is not $8 hour. How can I live on that?

allison in San Francisco, California said: CyberCoders; MRI Recruiters - all of them; The Ladders; Don't use any of these agencies. They are either scam jobs or no one follow-ups with you - EVER!!

Thank you! This helps me while job searching, to avoid the scams!

Inspector in Missouri said: The other thing is, many of these recruiters and staffing agencies have NO IDEA
what their clients want. One firm I went to (Express Personnel) only deals in $10 or less per hour jobs. They have no idea (and aren't creative enough) to advise people on executive positions or even places to refer you.

If I were you, I'd reject their social invitation. They very briefly employed me, sent me out to a client company, and their employment/supervisory coordinators came within a short distance of me and other employees, and began screaming, shouting, yelling at us and used inappropriate speaking voices for a professional business office setting.

Everyone around me keeps telling me I'm very professional, friendly, a good leader and treat others well, so my ? is why do these companies in my community keep hiring, retaining and promoting bad people like this?

K-Force gives me the runaround.

I went on an interview that they sent me to last year and recently I noticed an ad similar to that interview, and I mentioned it to them and they told me that they have "another opening". The company was not that big, so it tells me that either that job was never filled, or the person in that job either quit or got fired. If that job opening does exisit, or they could be doing the usual, getting people to respond to a fake ad. But the fact that I interviewed for that job in the past it telling me that it was a real job (at least before), and they are now just pulling an old ad to re run.

Aerotek is scum! They called me last week to "see where I was in my job search, and want to know a better idea of what I was looking for" What a line! You already know what I am looking for, just call me with a real job instead of just "updating" your records. Are you just checking if I have temped anywhere so you can call the manager and try to get your foot in the door when another agency is already established and has been using temps they are satisfied with? Next time I get a call like that from a recruiter, I will just cut in and say. So you already have my file in front of you, tell me about this job you want to send my resume to? I know they will turn it back around and want to know about my job history, and want to be walked through my entire job history again. Why don't you just get right to it and ask my for my updated references, as that is your one and only reason for the call!

I have been off for almost a year and have seen the same jobs posted by the same staffing orgs. over and over. It has gotten to the point that as I read the job description I know who the agency is before I am done reading. There is no way these are real job openings. In the Cleveland area the culprets are PPS,GTR,CyberCoding,Aerotech and Champion. Thanks to the people on the Indeed.com job forums,I don't even bother with these agencies anymore.