Another crap 'specialist' employment agency arm joins the masses (Hays)

Member Name: eclipsehater

Product:	Hays
Date:	12/05/07 (1957 review reads)
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Advantages: try finding one - just like the brain cell hunt of the 'specialist recruiter'

Disadvantages: too many to be going on with ... need 20 pages

Hays have moved on in leaps and bounds since the last posting some time ago ... about 5 inches at a snails pace, I have posted on the monster section for dooyoo, so i'll apologise for repetition but it's important and worthwhile to all GENUINE job seekers out there who don't want to get ripped off by some salivating and irksome agency. Ok, cue Hays Call Centre (Contact) Recruitment, contact is a good word - they don't know how to. After posting on monster in the second week (which was last week btw) lucky me gets a phone call (yippee).

To cut a long story short it was a call from Hays Contact Centre Recruitment (i sent them a CV via email in January and heard jack shit back ... btw) again, usual buttering up bullshit, you know, get 'em onside, sell them the job, talk the talk and walk the walk .. asked if I was 'flexible' replied yes and said i'd mentioned it in the CV. Said that the salary was 'less than what you are looking for' but 'they have an on-site gym and a nice place to work', so that makes it ok to undersell myself does it (twa*)?

Then not one or two but THREE whammies, one after the other, firstly that there were no less than FOUR rotating shifts, so you wouldn't know your arse from your elbow. Plus one of the shifts was late nights but no premium for unsociable hours (this just gets BETTER) and then .. you're working three out of four weekends and for this we'll offer you ... (drum roll please) 12k a year ...

Oh and by the way we want you to come see us TODAY and go for an induction this coming Thursday (read: holiday period coming up so its asses on seats time). I'd switched off by now on the basis of a) the fact that in january I never got a response - now I get one, so the bastards are too idle to check their email inbox but can spend time surfing the frigging net at work on monster, as monster does all the work so the lazy bastard recruiter doesn't have to 'work' (cough) b) four rotating shifts is nothing short of a piss-take and c) the nail in the coffin was the three weekends bit, no life then eh??

This remarkable place - TUI (holidays) at Westwood Business Park Coventry, what a shit-hole that must be to work at, and as for Hays? - well unprintable, i explained that i couldn't drop' everything to suit them and this dick faced moron then had the gall and audacity to ask me if I was an 'active job seeker' YES PAL, but no bloody MONKEY that works for peanuts, try Whipsnade Zoo, plenty of the buggers there my friend.

Hays? More like lost in a sea of haze I think. Unprofessional, patronising arseholes who deserve a swift kick where it hurts the most and preferably using size 11 steel toe capped shoes for maximum impact and crushed nuts, hey, monkeys like nuts too don't they?!!

Would I email Hays again or use this shower of dog excrement? Nope not in the slightest. Nothing but a bunch of lazy chancers, just like Manpower in Birmingham (see my post on these bastards too).

My question is this - WHY do these so called 'specialist agencies' employ fresh faced graduates in media studies or bio-engineering, with no common sense and the inability to cogently construct a sentence from their mouths without it sounding like a derogatory insult? Answers on a postcard to 'Hays are wa**ers PO BOX xxx Birmingham!'

Summary: shit, rubbish, avoid - rather have a frontal lobotomy with a rusty spoon - done by a chimp !!