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Old 06-02-2017, 01:51 PM
 
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I'm looking for an Executive Assistant/Admin Assistant, 6-ish month long, temporary assignment. I have had almost no luck with any of the truly awful, lying liar staffing agencies in NoVA. Has anyone ever had an experience that wasn't completely horrible with ANY of them? Thanks.
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Old 06-04-2017, 08:42 AM
 
Location: Central Virginia
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I'm looking for an Executive Assistant/Admin Assistant, 6-ish month long, temporary assignment. I have had almost no luck with any of the truly awful, lying liar staffing agencies in NoVA. Has anyone ever had an experience that wasn't completely horrible with ANY of them? Thanks.
I had success at Curzon in Alexandria.
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Old 06-04-2017, 06:55 PM
 
Location: Spartanburg, SC
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Daughter had great luck with Kelly Services. But she also had a great resume and attitude.
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Old 06-11-2017, 01:52 PM
 
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whats a bottom feeder staffing agency?
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Old 06-11-2017, 08:26 PM
 
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whats a bottom feeder staffing agency?
Some cater to recent immigrants, and may turn a blind eye to fishy documents. Others, hire convicts, and use them to fill jobs that have high turnover. Both groups can be placed in boiler rooms or call centers, often the same thing. The government contractors are often just as bad, and routinely take more than half of the hourly rate.
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Old 06-12-2017, 04:04 PM
 
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Actually, I just meant that I have dealt with several of them over the years who could only be described as rip-off artists. They make you jump through hoops with the promise of a job that is always fake in their advertisements and never materializes. You go in, interview, fill out a million forms, they tell you, oops, so sorry, that job was just filled this morning, and you never hear from them again. I have a great resume, so it's clear that all that's going on is they have a quota they need to meet. They're not there to actually help you find a job. So, they're bottom feeders and losers.
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Old 06-12-2017, 08:21 PM
 
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That describes the headhunters more closely, but often they will run both rackets at once. The worst teaching job I ever had was through Manpower. They will make you wish you were out knocking on doors for lawn mowing jobs, or simply shoveling Shiite.
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Old 06-16-2017, 02:17 PM
 
Location: Chandler, AZ
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Actually, I just meant that I have dealt with several of them over the years who could only be described as rip-off artists. They make you jump through hoops with the promise of a job that is always fake in their advertisements and never materializes. You go in, interview, fill out a million forms, they tell you, oops, so sorry, that job was just filled this morning, and you never hear from them again. I have a great resume, so it's clear that all that's going on is they have a quota they need to meet. They're not there to actually help you find a job. So, they're bottom feeders and losers.
What do you believe they stand to gain by doing this? Why would they have a quota of people to not get jobs?
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Old 06-17-2017, 03:30 AM
 
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What they do is assemble a bunch of people to work on a government contract that they don't yet have...if they get it, you start tomorrow, otherwise all smoke and mirrors. So companies are shopping your resume without any benefit to you.
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Old 06-26-2017, 09:19 PM
 
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I have always heard they have a quota of job seekers they have to track/report they've talked to in any given week, month, etc. Makes sense that would be part of their job requirements. Apparently, they don't have to prove they've actually PLACED people. Just that they've wasted everyone's time by either talking to them on the phone or having them come in for an "interview" or Skyping with them so they can add them to their stable. For the last ten years at least (not recently because I wised up quite some time ago) I have gotten sucked into going in and having to go through ALLLLL the rigmarole of an interview with a "recruiter", and NOTHING comes of it.
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