Do recruitment companies blacklist you?

loseyourself

Do they automtically filter out the jobs you applied for?

niallers1

The companies they work for pay them to do just that as they wouldn't have the time or resources to filter through the hundreds of applications they get for each job.

Do they blacklist you ? Yes if you are rude to them on the phone or in person they put a note on your file like DNU or Do not use.


So it's always best to be professional and mannerly when dealing with them.

loseyourself

I'm currently working and got the job directly through a company but seems like any job with the same expierence there looking for I am not considered for. I had around seven interviews with recruitment agencies around a year ago but landed none of them. Would this be a reason? I am always polite and have no ego whatsoever.

Would a new email address, address etc sort this or a new phone number?

Ray Palmer

loseyourself wrote: »

I'm currently working and got the job directly through a company but seems like any job with the same expierence there looking for I am not considered for. I had around seven interviews with recruitment agencies around a year ago but landed none of them. Would this be a reason? I am always polite and have no ego whatsoever.

Would a new email address, address etc sort this or a new phone number?

I think you might be expecting too much from recruitment agencies on a number of fronts.

Firstly if you were just interviewed by the agencies the chances are there was no job in the first place.

The agencies don't communicate with each other to black list you.

You will have been given a rating on the interview you did do. You need to get them to refresh the rating once your experience changes. SO you send them an updated CV and talk to them.

The market is quite competitive so you may have the minimum requirements but others with more experience are going for the jobs.

I get the paranoid thoughts but it isn't really likely

Mrs OBumble

Ray Palmer wrote: »

The agencies don't communicate with each other to black list you.

True - but some of them are effectively the same agency.

For example, Multiflex, CPL, Flexisource, Richmond Recruitment ... and I'm not even sure what other brands they are using now ... are all the one company.

You can often spot this from their offices being shared, or having linked websites. (These days each brand often has its own phone number, all answered by the same person.)

323

loseyourself wrote: »

Do they automtically filter out the jobs you applied for?

Possibly!

One actually told me so once, put me forward for a job in Scotland, went over did the interview. When offered the position, did the sums and it did not really work out as good as I had been led to believe, so did not go for it.

Few days later got a call from a very mad, rude and totally unprofessional recruitment agent who finished by saying when he was finished no agent would deal with me again.

As one poster mentioned, many of them are linked up now. Refuse to deal with any of them for years since and report all approaches by email or linkedin as spam. Friggin vultures, on commission.