Can anyone recommend any IT Recruitment companys in New Zealand ....particularly Wellington.? NZed
Let me get this straight: You want me to recommend toyou a bunch of blood sucking compulsive liars, preferably in Wellington.... am I correct?
I cannot think why employers entrust recruitment to such outfits. I note that staff keep breaking off and forming separate companies over the years eg Hudson (or a predecessor name) --> Momentum --> Powerhouse (I think) As for that firm with three dicky birds ...... Or the one named after a British city where the owner went bust (I think) Or another one where a former principal is now on the buses.
heh....No, none. They do indeed suck, big time.... Avoid if possible...otherwise look at seek.co.nz, stuff.co.nz and check.co.nz (and in that order IHMO). They really do not have a clue and will sell your ass anywhere to make a buck, think of them as slave traders...and approach them like that... Without doubt some employ "consultants" who have the morals of a typical real estate agent...hmmm that explains where they get them from.......lol. regards Thing
You forgot to mention brain-dead ;-) I tried many, a few years back (in Auckland) and they truly were - almost without exception - an appalling waste of time. They generally know sod-all about IT, so how they hell can they place you? They never, ever, return phone calls and rarely reply to e-mails. They contact you when it suits *them*. For some reason, many IT companies seem contractually bound to use recruitment agencies (or is it some old union hangover?). I suspect it's because they're used by personnel officers .... who *also* know sweet nothing about IT. It's a sort of middle-management "jobs for the boys" scenario that hardly ever matches jobs to people, IMHO - just keeps agencies in money. Adam.
Trust me when i speak from Personal Experience that Recruitment Agencies are all really frekkin useless - they spout so much shit but they don't even lift a finger to help you look for a job. I've been to so many and they have all promised the world and delivered 2/5 of stuff all.
Recruitment companies only exist to make lawyers, real estate agents and used car salesmen look ethical. I won't recommend any of them.
How about IT temping agencies? Are there any temping agencies that deal in IT work that are worth the effort of listing with?
I think they are all the same. I dealt with a couple of IT Recruiting companies and dealt with a lot of Finance industry Recruitment companies - and they are all bad - the lot of them. In fact im still waiting to hear back from Manpower regarding whether or not i was shortlisted for an interview for an Insurance role i applied for - this was 2 weeks ago. Not that i care anymore, i found a new job via seek dealing directly with the employer - best way to go.
The ones I have talked with seem to lock your future prospects as a contractor to them only if they can. Things like 2 years "gardening leave"....ie if you work for someone via them, then you cannot take a direct employment / another contract via another agency for 2 years....in a small town like Wellington that is an issue (London who cares). regards Thing
Those sorts of restrictions fall down faster than a house of cards. It's a restraint of trade. Even shorter periods won't hold up unless there's compensation. Anything more than 3 months is fairly unlikely to be defendable.
I would have to agree with the previous comments - I have been at the other end of the recruitment agency experience, trying to get them to recruit for us. Appalling service; the firstcut process I think they threw sticks in the air to decide....setting potential employees expectations very high, and in one case .. outright lies about the position being offered. Deal with the employer directly if you can - I have yet to see anything beneficial in using a recruitment company. In the end we employed an HR person fulltime to take over the recruitment for us in house .... much much easier .... Sue
