Best Recruitment agency to use?

brianrcarney

Can anyone suggest a good honest recruitment agency that have jobs on their books, i come from a financial services/accounting sector back ground but will put my shoulder to anything at all, this recession aint gonna beat me!!

Any help on this very much is appreciated!

Cheers

Tyrant^

From my experience, companys looking for staff are not using recruitment agencies at the moment. Also the agencies that claim to have jobs available are more than likely fake. Some agencies just copy and paste jobs from companys websites and stick the job on their own site, once they get a few CVs in... they will try sell their "services" to the company looking for staff.

Your best chance to get a job would be to go direct to the comapny.
You could try agencies but I dont trust them anymore

mrpink6789

Tyrant^ wrote: »

From my experience, companys looking for staff are not using recruitment agencies at the moment. Also the agencies that claim to have jobs available are more than likely fake. Some agencies just copy and paste jobs from companys websites and stick the job on their own site, once they get a few CVs in... they will try sell their "services" to the company looking for staff.

Your best chance to get a job would be to go direct to the comapny.
You could try agencies but I dont trust them anymore

I never get tired of agency bashing.

Not all agencies are putting up fake adverts.

Good Finance / Accountancy ones would be the likes of The Panel, Accountancy Professionals and Robert Walters.

Best of luck,

dublingal80

try accreate too - depending on your experience as they look at only really senior candidates

Speedy2009

Hey
ya i went into a few agencies and all promised they had jobs and would put cv in and let me know if anything suitable comes up now i see them advertising jobs that are suitable and when i email them they ignore me!

Will try the suggested ones above!

think this recession is all about networking.....

Max Power1

try www.cpl.ie they seem to be ok. Have put me in for a couple of jobs etc and ive gone to interview stage now so they do actually have jobs going. Basic customer service/sales/office admin roles but i'll take anything at this stage

Rosielee

Speedy2009 wrote: »

Hey
ya i went into a few agencies and all promised they had jobs and would put cv in and let me know if anything suitable comes up now i see them advertising jobs that are suitable and when i email them they ignore me!

I totally agree with you speedy. I have witnessed this on a number of occasions while helping my partner find a job in the multilinugal and the engineering/manufacturing sector. He has sent his CV to lots of recruitment agencies - CPL,Eden,Manpower,to name but a few..he has applied for jobs with these crowds, and has on 3 occasions spent time doing the online tests and telephone interviews, to then be told he passed them with flying colours and they will be in touch about the job..and then nothing. :rolleyes: Then a couple of days later the job is advertised again on the websites. One of the crowd above actually contacted him 3 months after he completed the test and interview for a particular job, asking him if he would like to do an online test and interview for the job !!...when he explained that he had already completed and passed these and was waiting to hear further...he was told he was being asked again for them to update their database !...what a load of crap :mad:.

With the result that both he and I have lost our faith in the genuineness of the companys we have encountered, and in fact are starting to believe that the jobs are indeed fake. He has also applied for positions in the engineering/manufacturing industry for which he has a trade, with the same companies above to be told the same thing as speedy - oh yeh very qualified we'll put your cv in for anything that comes up... and then nothing happens, but the same thing again - jobs he is qualified for being posted on the websites by these crowds and they dont even contact him..and when he contacts them they either ignore him or fob him off!!.:mad:

I think its about time that the employers cop on to what is happening and stop using these agencies because all they are doing is giving false hope to unemployed people who are doing their best to find work in difficult times.

Sorry for the rant but I couldnt resist Mods please feel free to move it as you see fit, it's just my 2 cents..for what its worth !;)

faceman

as many employers operate on a preferred list of agencies, and the agencies often vary from company to company, you are probably better off registering on monster.ie and irishjobs.ie and leaving your CV public.

I still use agencies when Im recruiting. I tend to stick to the same recruiters as opposed to agencies though. (i.e. if a recruiter that i find excellent moves agency, I will continue to use her/him) Not all agencies are evil!

student30

My Other half worked in a recruitment agency for years...and I would NEVER use them, you are merely comission...anyone who works for an agency is under a huge amount of pressure to make their targets. It is a business... the personal agencies are gone, the big chains left and all that matters is money, staff and candidates treated merely as money makers. I would say go directly to the company, they don't have to pay the fee and you don't have to put up with going for useless interviews in order to fulfill the recruiters targets which include: interviews per week, amount of people registered, amount of Cv's sent off and amount of CV's replied to via mail. Shocking isn't it to think that you are brought in to register just so the recruiter can meet that target for that week, then you are forgotten about and pulled up again 3 years later when you are fulfilling cold calling targets.
Just to add, these ads are fake, you may have one genuine one out of 20, the idea behind it is that if say they put up an ad for a qualified accountant, then they will get a whole load of cv's in for that job and thus have 10 great accountants on their books ready to go should a job come in, and in the meantime they use your CV to go about cold calling companys to get new jobs on, and even without your consent many agencies send off your Cv before seeing if you are interested.
I for one am so glad to see these big agencies declining at a rapid speed.

Rosielee

student30 wrote: »

I would say go directly to he company, they don't have to pay the fee and you don't have to put up with going for useless interviews in order to fulfill the recruiters targets which include: interviews per week, amount of people registered, amount of Cv's sent off and amount of CV's replied to via mail. Shocking isn't it to think that you are brought in to register just so the recruiter can meet that target for that week, then you are forgotten about and pulled up again 3 years later when you are fulfilling cold calling targets.

Thanks student30..you've summed it all up basically..I know in my partner's case, the recruiters he has dealt with have always refused to give him the name of the employer so it has been impossible to bypass the recruiters and go directly...which would of course be the preferred option. I just think it's terrible that these crowds are allowed get away with what they are doing and cant understand why employers out there have not done something about it...but I suppose at the end of the day, they just want the staff and not the hassle :rolleyes:

I accept what Faceman has said earlier about his experiences and that's fine, I just wish other employers put as much energy in sourcing decent recruiters as he does because if they did, then organisations such as the ones I previously listed..(and more) would not be able to operate as unfairly as they are doing. I understand that all recruiters are not evil, but unfortunately as a result of our experience, we have been left with a very poor opinion of the sector in general and unfortunately I think it goes towards tarnishing them all with the one brush, so to speak.

It would be nice for once, to come across a recruitment agency which does 'exactly what it says on the tin' - if they dont have the jobs then dont post the fakes, if the person is not qualified then tell them and stop filling them with false hope.:(

Eoin

Given how much an agency takes when they place someone, I can't understand why a lot of companies won't recruit directly and save themselves thousands. But the fact is, that a lot of companies will only use agencies.

By not using agencies you are limiting your options considerably. And by only using a couple of agencies, you're still limiting your options too. As I've said a number of times, I got my current job (albeit before the poo hit the fan) through an agency that I wouldn't have thought of dealing with, just by applying to a different job they had listed online.

gandalf

You're best bet is to draw up a list of companies you would like to work for and contact them directly. If you know people working there even better get them to submit your CV. By all means contact recruitment agencies but this is a buyers market and with the numbers looking for work alot of companies are not using agencies (why pay 5%,10% or 15% commission on a salary when there is a steady supply of excellent candidates out there).

I got recruited by an ex-boss recently because he contacted me on the off chance I was available. Use your contacts, friends, family friends, friends of friends, acquaintances.

jugovic

Hi all,

I would recommend CCP Recruitment. I have about 10 years engineering / product management experience and I'm currently looking for a position in Galway and like everyone sent off a load of emails to the various recruitment agencies. Deirdre (in CCP) called me back, went through all the positions with me, outlined to me exactly how to change the CV based on what the companies wanted (mainly medical companies), and emailed me example questions of what these companies would want. To be fair, you still have to push them sometimes but I found her excellent. But you should also look directly at companies because not all go through recruiter sites.

Anyway still waiting for something there although have an offer in Limerick, which will take if nothing comes up in Galway in the next 5 weeks.

fret_wimp

Dont limit yourself to a recruitment agency. Use them all. In the good times they never called back, were rude(some of them were anyway), sent CVs into companies without asking CV owners etc etc. Use them as thats what they are their for.

Also try to do some legwork on your own and apply to companies directly. I notice much more companies with a careers section on their home page nowdays.

Note, to show I dont hate all agencies, and some are decent, honest folk, I have dealt with CPL and Vantage, and they were both quite decent. There was even the odd decent recruiter in Eden Recruitment.