Thursday, 26 May 2011

Recruiters from Hell

In our Recruiters from Hell series we will be publishing stories of candidates who have been victimised by these inarticulate creatures.  Send your story to financechange@gmail.com


Read Toby Jocks' story below.

Toby Jocks, a newly qualified accountant tells us: “ I was called during my father’s funeral and was pitched a job at BarCap as a Fixed Income Product Controller. When I told the recruiter-who claimed to be a specialist but thought fixed income meant fraudulent activity in cricket matches sponsored by banks- it was not a convenient time, he just kept rattling his script read spiel.  When I told him my father killed himself because a recruiter sold him a lie, he didn’t say sorry. He just asked if I had any colleagues or other family members who might be interested. They’ll never change”

1 comment:

  1. I recently was sent on an interview to a company by a recruitment agency. I've sent updated resumes to them when I start to look for work again. The agency sent my resume to the company. I get to the interview and the employers pull out a 2 year old resume. I was so happy I brought updated versions of my resume. This has happened to me twice by two different agencies. What's the point of asking for my a recent copy of my resume if you're not going to use it.

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