Will recruitment agencies ever stop calling me??

PCB

these bottom feeders are the scourge of my life. this morning i have been called by no less than 7 agencies and received 21 emails between this morning and yesterday evening......does anyone else get harassed by these morons too????:mad:

board om

PCB wrote: »

these bottom feeders are the scourge of my life. this morning i have been called by no less than 7 agencies and received 21 emails between this morning and yesterday evening......does anyone else get harassed by these morons too????:mad:

did you apply for a job or put your CV on Monster or IrishJobs.ie in the last few days?

PCB

no im a manager with a bank and somehow they have got my number and email over the last few months and have become the plague of my life....i have told them numerous times that i no longer want to be contacted but they keep calling.....most of them dont even seem to know what they are talking about!!!

Todoquetengo

Check out the data commissioners website, think you can complain about the company contacting you or using your contact details when you have specifically asked them not to.

eirmail

PCB wrote: »

no im a manager with a bank and somehow they have got my number and email over the last few months and have become the plague of my life....i have told them numerous times that i no longer want to be contacted but they keep calling.....most of them dont even seem to know what they are talking about!!!

Don't answer your phone for a week just take voicemails.

Have a voicemail saying "Please leave a message unless you are a recruitment agency in which case I am quite happy where I am"

most people would find this somebit humorous and the agents should get the message .

board om

PCB wrote: »

no im a manager with a bank and somehow they have got my number and email over the last few months and have become the plague of my life....i have told them numerous times that i no longer want to be contacted but they keep calling.....most of them dont even seem to know what they are talking about!!!

thats a bit strange that they are all of a sudden calling you in the last few days. the only reason you would get calls like that from different agencies over a few day period is if you had put your CV on a jobs website. when a candidate with a good CV does that then they usually get a huge influx of agencies calling them.

there is a chance that maybe one of the big banks has a Manager position that has opened up and they have given the job out to a load of agencies to recruit for it. you must be on a few of their books and you probably fit the description of what they are looking for, so therefore they are all trying to get you to go for the position.

the only other thing i can think of is someone put your details up on a jobs site without telling you. did you fire anyone lately that might be holding a grudge? or maybe the missus wants a holiday home in spain so she is pimping you out to agencies without telling you

hunnymonster

board om wrote: »

...the missus ... she is ...

I like the gender assumption. no women bank managers out there

OP, I like the idea of the voice mail message but I can really understand how frustrating it must be.

board om

hunnymonster wrote: »

I like the gender assumption. no women bank managers out there

OP, I like the idea of the voice mail message but I can really understand how frustrating it must be.

whoops, i never even thought of that. i just assumed. silly me.

by the way OP, you seem to have a permanent problem with recruitment agencies. every thread you have started since you joined has been to attack them. did something happen somehwere along the lines that they screwed you over?

hunnymonster

board om wrote: »

whoops, i never even thought of that. i just assumed. silly me.

I'm only teasing. I know from your other boards.ie posts your not a mad-person. I'm female and my title and name are a bit ambigious when it comes to gender so we often get things addressed to "Dr and Mrs X" meaning me and my male partner. Lots of people make assumptions.

munster30

They always seem to ring me with a witheld number, so as a rule I don't answer witheld numbers. I think also if you were on their books once as a rule they ring you every 6-12 months.

Though Id Expect more calls about great roles in the coming months as I'd say they're commissions will be way down

AARRRGH

PCB wrote: »

these bottom feeders are the scourge of my life. this morning i have been called by no less than 7 agencies and received 21 emails between this morning and yesterday evening......does anyone else get harassed by these morons too????:mad:

Are they asking if you're looking for work, or are they asking if you're looking for staff?

the_syco

Ask what the salary is, snort at it, and hang up.

AARRRGH

the_syco wrote: »

Ask what the salary is, snort at it, and hang up.

Or what they're wearing...

information

most of the recruitment agencies are listed in the directories as no Direct Marketing Calls Allowed

flash harry

PCB wrote: »

these bottom feeders are the scourge of my life. this morning i have been called by no less than 7 agencies and received 21 emails between this morning and yesterday evening......does anyone else get harassed by these morons too????:mad:

here you go - www.nrf.ie see which ones are members here and complain, and let us know what feedback, if any you get.....

does anyone think banks are scourge of the earth???? I know plenty of people who do but I dont generalise that they are all scum.....

would love to hear if you got a reply from NRF

eth0_

If it's the same agency, threaten legal action or tell them you'll make sure your bank blacklists them and any candidates they send for interview. They'll soon stop!

mikemac

Tell them your company will never, ever hire a candidate from the agency.
And then write a letter to the management of the agency explaining it was the sales tactic of <insert consultants> name

With luck, they will be swiftly sacked from their jobs as banks are large organizations in Ireland and the threat of being shut out from a bank will terrify an the management of an agency

If you have no issue with someone getting fired then go for it

vibe666

my g/f used to work in recruitment and they all have very strict commission based targets they have to meet with a lot of them having a set number of cold calls that they need to make on a daily/weekly/monthly basis to generate new business.

for a while there recruitment was a good business to be in, plenty of money floating around, plenty of jobs out there to fill and plenty of people looking for work so more and more recruitment agencies popping up all over the place.

unfortunately for them the ar$e has fallen out of the employment market recently, lots of places are tightening their belts which means that one of the first things to go is budgets for paying someone else to hire people for you.

this means that the market is now overpopulated with recruitment agencies and they all have to call more and more people to try and meet their targets.

flash harry

PCB wrote: »

no im a manager with a bank and somehow they have got my number and email over the last few months and have become the plague of my life....i have told them numerous times that i no longer want to be contacted but they keep calling.....most of them dont even seem to know what they are talking about!!!

did you do anything about this??? would love to hear if you contacted the NRF as I suggested and what they said??

youcancallmeal

board om wrote: »

by the way OP, you seem to have a permanent problem with recruitment agencies. every thread you have started since you joined has been to attack them. did something happen somehwere along the lines that they screwed you over?

Quite odd alright:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055245382
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055263321

Maybe the recruitment agencies saw this thread and thought the op could do with a change in jobs?

flash harry

youcancallme>al wrote: »

Quite odd alright:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055245382
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055263321

Maybe the recruitment agencies saw this thread and thought the op could do with a change in jobs?

Unbelieveable, particularly liked the verbal abuse, but like she is a senior bank official and us recruiters our bottom feeders........

mountainyman

1st right a let her 2 the recrewtmeant ayjunssy and say

:In accordance with your responsibilities as a data controller under the data protection act I instruct you to remove me from your databases. I do not wish to me contacted by me again and I explicitly revoke any previous permission to hold my details.

The contact the DPC with your letter and complaint.

Smilin'Eyes

PCB wrote: »

no im a manager with a bank and somehow they have got my number and email over the last few months and have become the plague of my life....i have told them numerous times that i no longer want to be contacted but they keep calling.....most of them dont even seem to know what they are talking about!!!

If you request for them to remove your data they will have to do that. If they are governed by the NRF then they have strict codes of conduct. If your details are in the public domain however (Monster / jobs.ie etc) then you should delete your CV from there as otherwise, agencies are entitled to contact you.