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Posted by: Jim

13th May 2011 05:41pm

as much as these so called employment agents have released a lot of work off the centerlink office which is good I dont think they really care about there clients.


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Wackywog
  • 4th Feb 2014 09:21am

True. I worked in aprogram before the new job services structure came along. Job providers then did nothing for people looking for work and they still dont. Many people fronting up to these agencies are simply told to sit at a computer and look for work. How does the agency's attitude like that help? It doesnt. Do they really think that people who want to work arent looking? What the job agencies should be doing us actively help people connect to businesses that have vacancies, not just leave them to do approaches on their own. If someone getsva job outside the agencys so called assistance the government pays the agency for getting that person the job even though the agency has done nothing to get the job. This is where all our taxes are going. Centrelink use to provide a much better job assistance service. Now they are just penpushers who see people as numbers. Privatising centrelink is the worse thing the government could do?

Mel
  • 21st Jan 2014 12:08pm

Having found myself needing to look for work after an 11 year job! I sent CV's to employment agencies over the last few months, and I was annoyed that they don't get back to you. I know that they must get inundated with CV's every day, but even an email saying that they have received your CV and will be contacted if any suitable positions are available. Not only that, but in applying to an advertised job on the big Employment websites, placed there by an Agency, I have had no responses - and when you try to contact them to see if they have received your application, you get fobbed off and not called back. I have now found work, but went through a "Private Advertiser" rather than an Agency. I will never apply for a job through an Agency purely because of the lack of customer service. You know, I reckon that they have young people working there, that have no idea of the experience us older (30-40's) job hunters have. They look at the age and think 'they're past it'. I also think that they select the applicants that can give them the biggest commission. I am really fed-up with the lack of customer service that the Employment Agencies give, when they are in fact, in the 'service industry'. Anyone agree with me?

PGS
  • 17th Feb 2012 07:52pm

The joys of dealing with agencies. Useless creatures. HR is more often Human Remains than Human Resources.

I went through one 'wonderful' agency in Parramatta.... lost the emailed resume twice, lost the faxed version, lost the one that was taken in & the filled out forms. Lost the tax form & the super form - didn't tell me about those ones. Found out about the tax form when the pay was grossly over taxed (no, no other problems...) then a statement appears from a super co I wouldn't deal with. Oh, don't have your form... well, blow me down... he got his commission for setting up the account... left the agency, left the job, waited until the last super payment appeared & moved to where it should have been. Only to find out 12 months later they had been audited & hadn't paid the proper super amounts. Took another few months to clear that up.

Yep, love agencies. Just not very much.

MandMm
  • 17th Oct 2011 11:16am

Yep, I called one when my employer was only giving it's employees one 4 hour shift a week, I had heaps fo skills and experience, and they told me, unless you are on any kind of benefits, we can't help you find a job. I was trying to stay off the assistance. I even aked can I pay them to help me find work (as all the companies I approached said 'we go through x employment agency for staff') and they said again, only if you are receiving benefits, then we can help you.
I just had to deal with it, and within maybe 4 weeks of hardly any income I found something part time. When I recently moved interstate, I had the same problem. I approached a local employment agency (there are not many employers where I live, mostly family run businesses) and again, 'We can't help you unless you are registered with Centrelink'.
Thanks for the help, and providing a service to your clients employment agencies.

elljay
  • 25th Mar 2016 03:55pm
Yep, I called one when my employer was only giving it's employees one 4 hour shift a week, I had heaps fo skills and experience, and they told me, unless you are on any kind of benefits, we can't...

Tru words. They wont help you get a job unless your on centrelink. If your on centrelink they dont help you find work, they make you find it. All they seem to do is ask the same stupid questions time after time. Their potential for helping customers find work or even refer work is huge as they are the first port of call for employers. So why are most still not gaining employment?

Jim
  • 17th Oct 2011 04:32pm
Yep, I called one when my employer was only giving it's employees one 4 hour shift a week, I had heaps fo skills and experience, and they told me, unless you are on any kind of benefits, we can't...

Its been a long time, in fact it is almost imposable now to find a employment agentcie that will help you, unless you are a centerlink benifit. They are still in egssistance but manly for the high up executive certificate holder jobs. reason - these employment agents now get there money direct from the government .

mysteron347
  • 17th Oct 2011 02:26pm
Yep, I called one when my employer was only giving it's employees one 4 hour shift a week, I had heaps fo skills and experience, and they told me, unless you are on any kind of benefits, we can't...

Um - no, you can't pay them to help find you a job. It's illegal for employment agents to charge the candidate. Their 'clients' are the employers.

The employment agents skirt around the law by "representing" the candidate - paying the candidate one rate and charging the employer another. The bigger the gap, the larger the profit - hence the interest in placing people with the least salary demand. That's the key - not finding a candidate to fit the position.

The agents build a stable of ten or so peons. Then their only "work" is to replace those who have wised-up to the system and leave by placing ads for bogus positions to gather resumes. Do nothing, charge a fortune and hide behind a licensing system. And why don't the politicians do anything? Well, ask yourself what Mrs Rudd did to become a multi-millionairess...

After terminating a contract where the management was engaging in "interesting" practices, I walked out of work ten years ago today. I thought that my (then) thirty years in the computer industry with associated qualifications would mean I'd have no trouble finding a new job - in fact, I was contacted within 24 hours by a breathless agent, keen to put me into the position I'd just left at far less per hour.

Since then - no interest from Centrestink. Since I'm excluded from benefits (I invested my money in assets instead of smoking or drinking it away or injecting it into my arm) they're more interested in getting me off of Jobsearch.

"Job Network" agents simply put on the same old record - can't do anything (because you're on the lowest support level because you're not getting any benefits.) Sure - you can use our computers (mine is faster and better) and read our newspapers (for FREE!) - sure, read the IT personnel ads that don't appear in the newspapers I have to travel 10 miles to read....

Then they summon you to an interview in three months' time, under threat of "losing" (sometimes "loosing") your benefits. At that interview, you'll be confronted by a robot endlessly repeating "Your appointment has been cancelled. You've been exited from the system." Not allowed to say by whom or when - so it's back to Centrestink to start the whole rigmarole again - if their computers are working today (otherwise come back tomorrow...)

Yes, in WA, where we're ripping the minerals out of the ground to save the country from economic collapse, we have a "boom." This means that according to Jobsearch, there are FOUR (count them - FOUR) IT jobs advertised in the whole state.

Yes, I've noticed that the pages of "jobs" have disappeared, They never existed other than in the minds of the "agents."

And I'm now convinced that if I was ever offered a job through an agent, I wouldn't take it anyway. Why would I want to work for an employer who is so totally inept and blind that they will PAY an agent rather than simply offering the job directly - either on the net or using the old-fashioned "newspaper" method?

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