Comments on: Trying to recruit a .Net Developer in Stockport

By: dizi izle

dizi izle — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:07:09 +0000

thnaks

By: çiçekçi

çiçekçi — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:41:37 +0000

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By: Simon Wharton

Simon Wharton — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:09:41 +0000

Bill, I know what you’re saying. Here’s our experience
http://blog.pushon.co.uk/blog/bd-recruitment-ltd-of-manchester-i-will-never-use-your-services/

By: Philip Hemsted

Philip Hemsted — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:17:42 +0000

Hi Bill – we used a different approach at Yuuguu to build the dev team – by testing people personality and ability using psychometrics – you can identify people that you’ll get on with and can do the job. I believe in this approach so much – have set up a business psychology consultancy called ‘psycuity’.
Cheers Philip

By: Paul Michael Smith

Paul Michael Smith — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:54:29 +0000

Have you tried Krop (http://www.krop.com) or Authentic Jobs (http://authenticjobs.com)? UK sites of a similar nature might be Roome (http://www.roome.co.uk) Some good people use those sites both to recruite and get work.

By: jonthebeef

jonthebeef — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:35:40 +0000

In fairness, the “service” granted by agencies to candidates can leave as nasty a taste in the mouth. I’m a fairly specialised guy looking for a specialist role, so I approached a “digital” recruitment agency to help me find a job when I moved back to Manchester from London 18 months ago. Initially, I was dealing with the head of the recruitment team, who while was personable and full of advice, she clearly lacked a book of appropriate jobs for me (not the agency’s fault). I was then passed to one of her underlings, who took issue with me from the start for no reason. He made it extremely clear that he wasn’t bothered about helping me as I wasn’t an “easy win” (IE an SEO, an Account Handler or Business Development Exec). Basically, I didn’t want to do sales, and he didn’t want to help. The result: I spent more time searching recruitment websites and found the company I currently work for on there, who had advertised the position I took on there themselves.

My advice to recruiters would be to advertise through websites like Totaljobs or Reed who, while charging for an advert, won’t give you a load of spiel, and won’t be looking to fit their square shaped candidate into your circular entry point. And for candidates, if you use one of the job sites, making full and proper use of their alerts, it won’t take you forever to find the right job, and it’ll be an altogether nicer process than by entering the cattle market that is recruitment.

You will, sometimes, find a nice and decent and capable and specialist agency who will be able to find you the person or company you require for a fair price, and you’ll know that the person or company you’ve become acquainted with are good at their jobs. The rest, sadly, are just in for a fast buck, and don’t care about offering a good level of service to either the candidate or the recruiter.

By: a contractor

a contractor — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:18:54 +0000

as a contractor agencies are the bane of my life, but a necessary evil. I’ve worked with RMI (http://www.rmirecruitment.com/) before though and been put under pressure to try and get my timesheet signed off before the end of the week.

Client turned over tens of millions a year and was not particularly impressed. At getting invoices on a Friday afternoon before I had finished the week. I am hard pressed to justify agencies £20 an hour over my hourly rate especially when they tell you the client wants you to lose £2 an hour – and if you refuse you have no idea what they are telling the client about you.

I think Intapeople are probably the only agency I would work for voluntarily again – but if you need the work what choice do you have?