Steve Firth wrote:

Doki wrote:

I've just spent the afternoon for preparing a job application,
which has the closing date specified as today. Which usually means
applications can be submitted until midnight. But of course, in
this case, means that they actually closed last night...

A friend of my eldest os a recruitment consultant. She told me
recently that there are very few real job on the books of the
recruiters. They advertise non-existent jobs to harvest CVs and to
get lists of refereees that they will use as sales contacts. They
pretend to callers that jobs exist, set impossible deadlines, ask
candidates when they are free for interview then set interviews when
the candidate can't attend and they simply lie through their teeth
and say the job was taken.

Nice people, not.

That'll be your average bodyshop agency with the morals of a
lobotomised junkyard dog then. Nothing to see here, move along...

Pretty much every EKS I know has a short (or very short) list of
agencies that they're willing to do business with because there are so
many bad ones out there.

And from the perspective of someone who is trying to help in hiring a
contractor or two right at this moment, there are an awful lot of
candidates out there whose CVs appear to match someone else's skill set.

I find it a good indicator as to how many unsolicited calls I get for
decent contracts and the fact that it's recently picked up suggests
that there are jobs out there, but there are also an awful lot of
people chasing said contracts.

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