Demand for IT staff jumps, claims employment agency

Ad?

Or maybe they just need free advertising to pull some more CVs to the site. It's not like it never happened with similar sites.

It's a common practice to send 50 not matching CVs to employers. Just so it looks like there's a big demand. Also often contracts say that agency needs to send specific number of CVs. I've seen it over and over again, although I stopped looking for a job a while ago. Agents calling and asking for skills that are not even mentioned on CV. Then when asked about it, saying "Don't worry mate, it will be fine, we know what they want!". BS. Truth is that less people are actually looking to change the jobs (nobody wants to risk) so CV pool shrunk quite considerably. There are mostly same people all over the place as their skills don't guarantee employment.

Yes, but...

The real KPI is how many people they are actually placing, and if my experience of CV Screen is anything to go by I'd presume it's not many as they don't seem know the difference between a SAP Programme manager and a C++ coder.

You just have to laugh at these pimps don't you.

Pay cuts! Lucky sods!

You haven't spent 12 weeks on no pay waiting for venture capital that never arrived, having left 95% of a system you developed for nout behind where old boss might still make something with it.

Pay cuts, lucky lucky.

no but really...

Didn't the internet replace the need for these middlemen? They are about as much use as estate agents and equally skilled as bullshit artists.

I prefer to deal direct with companies that want to hire me. That way the company also gets to keep the finders fee which they are normally more than happy to remember when it comes to haggling salaries. Only HR departments full of lazy fat slags use recruitment agencies anyway.

Who the f are CV Screen

New agency set up and now so desperate for CVs they are using the Register to fool people into send them

What happened when they set up the company, didn't some fraud nick the database from his last company like every other new agency

@ our friend the Anonymous Coward

Wow aren't you the lucky one, you only have to deal direct to find that great job. Some of us were tettering on the edge of redundancy and the jobs market is not so comfortable.

My girlfriend works in recruitment and acutally they find the agency model works pretty well (she is not fat and neither is she a slag but thanks for the generalisation). They get to recruit with their name and somebody else does all the paperwork, and legal mumbo jumbo.

And anyway when I got my current role I got this one offered and another through an agency so both ways work, so lets not say that whatever you say is right eh?

RE no but really...

"Only HR departments full of lazy slags use recruitment agencies anyway" sounds like the perfect place to work!

GISSAJOB :)

go on you know you want to....

but with a million dodgy migrants running about the UK with fake MCSE's its gonna be hard to weed out the trash.....

beer... cos u need a break from all those hectik meetings with future clients....

Why?

So why haven't they found me a job yet then?

Re: Francis Fish

You worked 3 months for free?

lol you've been had mate.

IT jobs are there...

Well, my friend Andy... yes companies are recruiting in India. Fire IT persons with higher salary... Recruit persons with lower salary.

I am one of the Victim. I am highly skilled. I have been asked to train a cheap resource so that he can maintain BAU (Business As Usual). He is supposed to be my back up. But I know, in 1 month I am going to have a meeting with my manager and he is going to declare me my job loss.

The reason - Recession.....

Its same everywhere.... Business men does not recognize nation and border .... they only recognize MONEY.