Re: Recruitment agencies - recommendations for and to avoid

I would evaluate the agency as much as the job when applying.

Remember - if they can't get the "connecting employer to contractor" bit
right, would you trust them to get the "paying the contractor" bit correct
as well?

On 2 February 2011 09:59, Philip Gaw <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
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> > Subject: Re: [Scottish] Recruitment agencies - recommendations for and
> > to avoid
> >
> > On 02/01/2011 10:37 PM, Julian Gibson wrote:
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > Wondering if anyone has recommendations for good recruitment agencies
> > > and possibly even more important which ones to avoid.  Obviously
> > looking
> > >  to find something Linuxy, Unixy ideally but I suspect the agencies
> > > treat all skills equally in that sense.
> > >
> > > Cheers and thanks
> > > Julian
> > >
> >
> > In my experience recruitment agencies have no idea what they are doing.
> > There a few decent people that know what they are talking about but
> > mostly they are a load of rubbish. unsuitable jobs wrong skills ect ect
> > ect
> >
> > This is just my opinion tho if anyone does know a decent agency I would
> > be very interested.
>
> I have found Eden Scott to be quite helpful in the past - certainly my
> current *nix
> role is through them!
>
> >
> > Andy
> >
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