Do you ever get the feeling that you’re being recruited because the staffing company expects you to help them do their jobs and not necessarily to help get you a job?
I’ve told a couple of them off when they’re like ‘Hey, pass this on for money’.
I told them ‘I am not doing your job - my email address is not a marketing tool. If you have a job for *me*, contact *me*, otherwise don’t spam me and don’t waste my time.’
You want me to work your recruiting efforts, then it’s a paycheck each and every week. That’s how this thing works.
I went to a job fair down near Houston a couple years ago at my church (big, big church). While I’m there, I see a “staffing” place that I had been too the very first week I hit town. Went down, filled out all the papers, watched their idiotic videos.
So, I go to their booth, and ask if they have jobs for a college-educated, drug free person willing to work any shift. Of course, they have lots and lots of jobs.
So I ask, how is it I filled out all your forms months ago and haven’t heard a single phone call nor an email for a job? Shocked they were, I tell ya, shocked. Call me in the morning says one gal - gives me her business card.
So I call the next day - she promises action. I have left the state by now, but my cell phone never rang over the next 15 months from them nor have I ever received one email.
These people are a complete waste of time. I’ve contacted more than one.