Dealing with Personnel Companies
December 25th 2006 05:16
The last time I was out of work - nearly twenty years ago - I remember having no luck whatsoever in trying to get a job through a personnel company. Things have been no different this time.
I've had one interview via a personnel company (hereinafter called PC in this post) and that led nowhere; I've had a nine-day temporary job, way back in September, and nothing else from that company; I've had considerable frustration with another PC that invited me and a number of other of their clients to come to an evening where a potential employer would talk about the prospective additional part-time employment they wanted to offer. In this case I got nowhere twice, even though one of the PC staff - the manager of their head office, in fact - said that I was ideally suited to the job. Yet one of the other staff, the one I'd thought was looking after my situation, claimed I didn't have a corporate fit. I nearly had a fit of some other kind, when I heard that on the phone.
What the heck is a corporate fit? I've worked for corporations before - how can I suddenly have lost my fit just because I've been in a different scene for so long?
I have this gut feeling that PCs, once they've done an initial processing of your situation tend to let you slide onto the back-burner if they can't get something for you straight away. You can email them and phone them as much as you like, but they're already dealing with other people who've come along since you registered, and they haven't got time to deal with you again.
There are at least five PCs in this town. I'm registered with them all. So far the only other job I've had in the months since the end of August is one I got myself. It's part-time, the hours aren't the greatest, but at least it's some work.
I have a suspicion that once you're employed, you're employable. If you're out of work, that's it. But of course I've been wrong about things before.
I've had one interview via a personnel company (hereinafter called PC in this post) and that led nowhere; I've had a nine-day temporary job, way back in September, and nothing else from that company; I've had considerable frustration with another PC that invited me and a number of other of their clients to come to an evening where a potential employer would talk about the prospective additional part-time employment they wanted to offer. In this case I got nowhere twice, even though one of the PC staff - the manager of their head office, in fact - said that I was ideally suited to the job. Yet one of the other staff, the one I'd thought was looking after my situation, claimed I didn't have a corporate fit. I nearly had a fit of some other kind, when I heard that on the phone.
What the heck is a corporate fit? I've worked for corporations before - how can I suddenly have lost my fit just because I've been in a different scene for so long?
I have this gut feeling that PCs, once they've done an initial processing of your situation tend to let you slide onto the back-burner if they can't get something for you straight away. You can email them and phone them as much as you like, but they're already dealing with other people who've come along since you registered, and they haven't got time to deal with you again.
There are at least five PCs in this town. I'm registered with them all. So far the only other job I've had in the months since the end of August is one I got myself. It's part-time, the hours aren't the greatest, but at least it's some work.
I have a suspicion that once you're employed, you're employable. If you're out of work, that's it. But of course I've been wrong about things before.
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