Michael Page

I have used this recruitment agency and also ther sister company Page Personnel and i found them very professional and helpful, they called me constantly with updates and keeping me informed every step of the way. I was even informed straight away when things werent ging my way, i spoke to many members of the staff and in different offices and i can now see why they are a multi million pound, worldwide company with the lowest recruitment agency in house staff turnover. I had registered with man yagencies and i had no problem in telling them no as i wanted to be represented by MP or PP. I have been in my job now for nearly 2 years ad still ...  Read the complete review

In a job like mine recruitment agencies are often a necessary evil. In order to get the best skill sets and save time many companies dispense with job advertising completely in favour of using agencies to find candidates. The more experienced and more qualified you become, the more difficult it is to find suitable employment without the help of an agency. With this in mind, it is essential that you find and agency that is singing from the same song-sheet as you are. An agency that has your career goals and objectives in mind when they put you forward for interviews, not just filling as many posts as possible to get their commission. I've dealt with ...  Read the complete review

Having used a number of recruitment agenices in my time - some good, some bad - I feel compelled to warn people about a particularly dreadful experience I had with Michael Page. The reason I went to this company in the first place was their website, which, to be fair, is a great selling tool for them as they appear to have far more jobs than most. However, I later found out that most of the jobs on there were filled some time ago. I have fairly extensive experience in my field, and every other agency I contacted responded to me straight away. Yet it took Michael Page over two weeks to come back to me, and that was only after I phoned several times. The ...  Read the complete review

At the end of last year my career (as did so many others) fell victim to the dotcom slowdown. I, along with half of my company, was made redundant. I went into my normal busy day and by three in the afternoon we were all in the local pub drowning our sorrows. That's the background to this opinion. In the coming weeks I sorted out my CV and began to look for a new employer. The focus of this search quickly turned to using agencies who seemed to control all the good jobs anyway. I visited numerous agencies and consultants. I mean a lot of them. Some impressed me more than others. Some failed to impress me at all. But there was one ...  Read the complete review