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Electronics job: Left after one day
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: floobydust on November 22, 2021, 08:25:31 pm ---Placement agencies have their own sharky environment - they fight (internally) over which agent serves the client company, and whom is pimping out the candidate. It's dog eat dog.
Agents can hoard CV's to try keep their candidate exclusive, out of the central database. Or steal another agent's candidate, or schmooze a client company - anything to get a placement. They don't even know the difference between PCB, FMEA, C, SQL, Python etc. it can get pretty funny as they are pretty much salespeople. I would say they want to preserve the relationship with CrassB Co. so OP takes the blame.
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Yes, it's a highly competitive "market". And candidates flaking out after just a couple days give them a bad rep. Also keep in mind that in most cases, if a candidate just hired leaves before a certain delay (for contract jobs, depends, can be 2 weeks or 1 month), the agency will NOT get paid. That makes them pretty angry.
penfold:
--- Quote from: floobydust on November 22, 2021, 08:25:31 pm ---[...]
Agents can hoard CV's to try keep their candidate exclusive, out of the central database. Or steal another agent's candidate, or schmooze a client company - anything to get a placement. They don't even know the difference between PCB, FMEA, C, SQL, Python etc. it can get pretty funny as they are pretty much salespeople.
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Very very true. I spoke with an agent recently, he was reading from a job spec and wanted to know if I had experience working with "em double-u power converters", I sighed and didn't even have the willpower to come up with a snarky response.
There's quite a big difference between what type of contract it was as to how justifiably upset the agent may be, if its a contract for/of services, then the contractor (service provider) is likely to be operating on behalf of the agent (employment business) for the client. There's a bit more time invested with legal and accounting teams in setting up the arrangement, and ultimately the agreement (client to employment business) is probably in the form of a purchase order which doesn't afford the same niceties as an employment contract and can have penalties for delays and late deliveries easily added: so it can get quite nasty quite quickly.
The fixed-term employment type is a lot more flexible, so yeah the agent/recruiter is missing out on some commission, but it's a quick-win easy-lose kinda game and a lot less time invested per contract. Views may vary?
I have a lot of empathy for the OP at the moment, sounds worrying similar to my current contract from which I sorely wish I'd escaped much earlier on!
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