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“No encouragement whatsoever”

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written by on 29/12/2013

All I ever got from Hays was negativity. One person told me that all my qualifications were just basic and probably the most I could ask for is 45,000. Another one asked me about my accent and where it was from? She had a heavy Irish accent herself...maybe hers is permissible compared to mine? It is American by the way. It is very disheartening to be told all this when I have been working consistently most of my life, probably before they were born. I understand that some of the jobs are over my head but I hadn't applied for those. I am very well aware of what I am capable of doing and learning. At this difficult time, I have been looking now for 8 weeks, it would be nice not to have your spirit crushed by some insensitive comments and perhaps be given some encouragement and pointers, Hays. I hope that none of the "professionals" that I have spoken to would have to suffer the humiliation that was sprayed to me, should they find themselves in a similar position.

Happy New Year everyone and all the best for 2014. Don't give up :)

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Kams1982's Comment

Written on: 21/01/2014

Hello, I went to register with a different recruitment agency last week known as Tate.

Some people tend to discriminate based on the way someone speaks or acts, the person who invited me to register was pretty sure that he could get me out to work as soon as this week when we spoke over the phone and he asked me to come in at short notice.

When I walked through the doors of this agency, I asked for the individual. I was early they asked to comeback in 15 mins to complete paper work. I went off when I got back after 15 mins the receptionist asked me to take a seat, someone else came over and asked me what I am therefore, I told them that I was called to come in to register. Then that person told me to come back after 5 or 10 mins, I decided to wait the consultant I came to see came and saw me. When I briefly spoke to him he asked me to tell me about myself, I was a very nervous because of the short notice so I couldn't speak well. The next comment that he made was there are better people out than me and time is precious. He then told me to think about what I want to and then told me to contact him in a couple of weeks. As I walked out of the door he swore at me when he was speaking to the receptionist.

Since he told me that there are better candidates than me I sent him an email yesterday and told him that there are better recruitment agencies, thanked him for arranging to meet and waste my time, and told him that I guess the difference between the best and the worst agencies is that the best have excellent customer service. The guy emailed back and tried to convince me that they are the best in the business.

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Charga's Comment

Written on: 27/01/2014

I had the same experience. Despite 16 years administrative experience, 91wpm with 98% typing accuracy, having gained a Cert IV HR Mgt qualification, experience providing transcription services - so much experience and to be told my EA experience is not current enough, not recent enough to be competitive. They wouldn't even put me forward. I was told that I was competing against people who had recent EA experience which would discount me. I was also asked about how old I was, if I had children and where I lived which is discriminatory.

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