I'm swedish and live in Sweden and this summer I worked with the olympics in London through manpower. I have yet to be paid the right amount. Over three months after I stopped working I received my pay. I thought that the amount was very little so I asked them to send me an hour-report or something. They have not counted at least half of the days I worked, and are now expecting me to remember all my shifts from 4 months ago. If that's not enough to be able to work for man power I had to send them my details multiple times and when I arrived in London it was an absolute mess with the working hours. No organization what so ever. We did not get hour working hours ...  Read the complete review

i was supposed to start a job at the bank as a csr 2 weeks ago, about a month ago i had all the interviews and manpower told me that i was accepted for the position, they had about a month to work on my background check which they did not finish on time, now 2 weeks after i was supposed to start, they told me that the background check is still not done, which is a total lie, because i called that company that does the background check and they had finished the background check and it was sent off about a week ago, and manpower also added that i cannot work for the bank if i missed any payment from any bills on time, so now im sitting here frustrated, jobless, did all ...  Read the complete review

The main person here is an ex Kellys recruiter of some years a blond woman and they really are a sorry sad bunch here. I was made to wait for ages to register. No vibe about the place and the staff looked miserable. There were only 2 or 3 there. Remember always when looking for temp or perm work. The recruiter agrees an hourly rate with a job fill that comes in with their client and they pay you the temp or perm candidate as little as possible. They are just shocking here. I'll leave it there.

My experience with Manpower, certainly doesn't mirror the last posting, I find it hard to believe that US companies (reknown for being the WORST in the world to work for regarding benefits and other material employment matters) like Manpower are any different from most, if not all other agencies. I'll give two example scenario's and you the jury make your mind up. A colleague and I went to Birmingham 2nd week of October 2006 on a job hunt and decided to 'hit' all the agencies we could, so, smartly dressed and with a bundle of CV's in tow each we descended on the epicentre of the West Midlands - and wished we'd never bothered. Several agencies were ...  Read the complete review

I signed on at Manpower in Winchester almost immediately after I got back from university this year. I was officially on their 'books' - before I got sick of waiting and got my own job - for about a month, and in that time I was only offered two jobs, or assignments as they are properly called. One was a night shift at a mail-order firm, and the other was something involving chickens and an industrial vacuum cleaner. Not a wide and varied selection there, I think you'll agree. I did take the night shift job - it was for one night only -and I did find that what the company did, they did efficiently. I was telephoned the day I was to have the job, and ...  Read the complete review