Readers' Comments

Reader Comments on Aardvark Daily 22 Mar 2001
Note: the comments below are the unedited submissions of readers and do
not necessarily reflect the opinions of the publisher.
From: Eelko Van der Does
For : The Editor (for publication)
Subj: IT recruitment agencies

IT recruitment agencies get a lot of money for doing bugger
all.  From personal experience I can honestly say that I
have found more jobs myself when they have been telling me
I am either over or under qualified or simply wrong for the
job.

I hate dealing with IT recuitment agencies and i will tell
you why.

Who do they work for?  I mean, when I go on there, I feel
they are working for me. I am their customer and I require
them to find me work, that is what they are there for.  The
last time I went in was on a day off work. I decided not to
bother putting on a suit and just showed up. I swear to god
that the term "You will have to wear more suitable clothing
at this job" came up about 6 times.  For gods sake, now I
have to dress up just to impress some little weener (or
weeneress) who looks down their nose at me because my MSCE
is out of date?

The reason they wont use your website to advertise is
because of several reasons:
1. They allready have to update about 8 sites everytime
they have a job to advertise.
2. No one else is advertising there so they dont have to.

Personally, I would love to see a job site that does not
involve or even allow IT recruitment agencies... I know
that most of my IT collegues hate dealing with agencies,
and I know that employers hate dealing with agencies... why
is everyone dealing with them?

I like the example that Geekfinder is setting
(http://www.geekfinder.com/).  No it recruitment agencies
involved.




From: Stan
For : The Editor (for publication)
Subj: IT Recruitment Agencies

I take exception to Eelko's comments about IT Recruitment
Agencies.  I have had the pleasure of dealing with most of
all the major agencies in Auckland where I am based.  I
have nothing but praises for their professionalism and
dedications.

I find it extremely incredible that someone could have so
little respect for the very agent who is supposed to 'as he
said' working to seek a good position for him.  If that was
his attitude towards me and I am his agent I can personally
say I wouldn't put a single second into his case at all.
This sort of mentality underminds the very social fabrics
of New Zealand, that you are always expecting something but
not willing to put something back into the partnership.

The agents I used (as a prospective employee) have always
been excellent providing candidates of top notch.  Their
first task would be to weed out candidates not just from
skills but also by their character.  I would not expect
them to send to me a candidate such as Eelko.

As far as website goes, there are so many out there, each
agent have their own, every newpaper, radio station,
magazine and so on are creating jobsites.  Personally I
have only found two which are always updated and I ignore
the rest.  And I can understand why the agents would not
want to take up another job website.
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